Bubinga neck vs maple for guitar

[WarmothRules]

Are any of you familiar with bubinga necks with pau ferro freboards? I'm selling off a guitar to put together a baritone. I know baritones are thought of as deep sounding and warm but I want to make sure I'm getting the most crunch out of it. Think soldano slo type crunch. Will bubinga be to warm or do I just want a maple/ pau ferro?

 

[line6man]

Doesn't matter what you get, as long as it can be played raw.

If you want Maple tonality, try Canary.

 

[Patrick from Davis]

It should sound fine, if matched with the proper pickups.  I have heard both maple and mahogany guitars play crunch tone with the best of them, and usually it comes down to the pickup selection.  If you have a brand you like, you are set.  Otherwise, talk to Ken at Roadhouse Pickups and give him some guidelines (Artists and songs) and he'll make you some dandies.
Patrick

 

[WarmothRules]

It should sound fine, if matched with the proper pickups.  I have heard both maple and mahogany guitars play crunch tone with the best of them, and usually it comes down to the pickup selection.  If you have a brand you like, you are set.  Otherwise, talk to Ken at Roadhouse Pickups and give him some guidelines (Artists and songs) and he'll make you some dandies.
Patrick

I got a metal live wire pickup duncan, super high output and mid heavy. I had in a guitar years ago with a alder body maple neck and ebony freboard. I've played some guitars with pau ferro fretboards and they always had a magic 3D type of sound to my ears. I didn't even think about canary. Canary might be fine. I want a raw neck who doesn't. I played a guitar with a Goncalo Alves neck once and it sounded very generic, I hope canary doesn't have that quality.

 

[line6man]

I played a guitar with a Goncalo Alves neck once and it sounded very generic

You're quite quick to attribute various aspects of your guitars' performance to wood. Neck wood is only one factor out of many that all work together as a system. How are you distinguishing that the neck wood was the sole reason the guitar sounded "generic?" :icon_scratch:

 

[WarmothRules]

I played a guitar with a Goncalo Alves neck once and it sounded very generic

You're quite quick to attribute various aspects of your guitars' performance to wood. Neck wood is only one factor out of many that all work together as a system. How are you distinguishing that the neck wood was the sole reason the guitar sounded "generic?" :icon_scratch:

True it could have been the body wood also. I'm not %100 sure it was Goncalo Alves actually but it was some guitar in a local music shop that some one was tring to sell as a "custom shop" deal with "exotic" woods. Some one was building warmoths and tring to resell them as there own handmade guitar or somthing. The two guitars looked and played great but the one with the Goncalo Alves looking neck had terrible tone even when not plugged in. This is what makes me a little leery of exotic tone woods. I know bubinga sounds great for bass and pau ferro sounds killer. I just need to find some canary neck guitar videos on youtube.

 

[AprioriMark]

Ummm.  So you're talking down about tone woods that you're not even sure are those woods, let alone W parts? 

-Mark

 

[line6man]

I played a guitar with a Goncalo Alves neck once and it sounded very generic

You're quite quick to attribute various aspects of your guitars' performance to wood. Neck wood is only one factor out of many that all work together as a system. How are you distinguishing that the neck wood was the sole reason the guitar sounded "generic?" :icon_scratch:

True it could have been the body wood also. I'm not %100 sure it was Goncalo Alves actually but it was some guitar in a local music shop that some one was tring to sell as a "custom shop" deal with "exotic" woods. Some one was building warmoths and tring to resell them as there own handmade guitar or somthing. The two guitars looked and played great but the one with the Goncalo Alves looking neck had terrible tone even when not plugged in. This is what makes me a little leery of exotic tone woods. I know bubinga sounds great for bass and pau ferro sounds killer. I just need to find some canary neck guitar videos on youtube.

It could be any number of different factors.
Remember that everything works together as a system. Two pieces of wood might have resonant frequencies that do not mate up well, and not just because of their species. You can't take a bad combo and arbitrarily decide that one factor alone was responsible for it, and also that one whole species of wood does not sound good because one particular cut of it performed poorly in one particular application in one instance.

Finding YouTube clips doesn't do much good, either. You have a different rig and different hands, and you'll probably be building a different guitar.

 

[WarmothRules]

I played a guitar with a Goncalo Alves neck once and it sounded very generic

You're quite quick to attribute various aspects of your guitars' performance to wood. Neck wood is only one factor out of many that all work together as a system. How are you distinguishing that the neck wood was the sole reason the guitar sounded "generic?" :icon_scratch:

True it could have been the body wood also. I'm not %100 sure it was Goncalo Alves actually but it was some guitar in a local music shop that some one was tring to sell as a "custom shop" deal with "exotic" woods. Some one was building warmoths and tring to resell them as there own handmade guitar or somthing. The two guitars looked and played great but the one with the Goncalo Alves looking neck had terrible tone even when not plugged in. This is what makes me a little leery of exotic tone woods. I know bubinga sounds great for bass and pau ferro sounds killer. I just need to find some canary neck guitar videos on youtube.

It could be any number of different factors.
Remember that everything works together as a system. Two pieces of wood might have resonant frequencies that do not mate up well, and not just because of their species. You can't take a bad combo and arbitrarily decide that one factor alone was responsible for it, and also that one whole species of wood does not sound good because one particular cut of it performed poorly in one particular application in one instance.

Finding YouTube clips doesn't do much good, either. You have a different rig and different hands, and you'll probably be building a different guitar.

True true. When I'm about to build a guitar I over think it way to much. My mind feels like it's rotting. I'm just going with bubinga. Next time canary ccasion14:

 

[Patrick from Davis]

Well, you have a bunch of things already in place.  Go with it.  If you want more of something, then you can ask about ways of going about it.  I still believe that the pickups decide most of the sound.  Well, besides the hands...  And of course, pickups can be changed relatively easily.  I found out a bunch of pickups that I don't like the hard way, and now I can order with a bit more confidence, and the guitars sound the way I want them, well, besides my playing, but I digress.
Patrick