Neck/body wood

[Marco78]

In your opinion is the neck wood more important that the body to influence the sound of an electric guitar?

Thanks

 

[SustainerPlayer]

Yes.

The top 3 in my humble opinion is:

1. Pickups

2. Neck

3. Body

 

[m4rk0]

I agree with the player of the sustainer..

a chambered body makes quite a difference, so can hardware (bridge/nut)

it is a combination of all those things but it is impossible to predict a tone while planning your build.

 

[Bruno]

Hardware 20%, pickups 50%, wood 30% [neck 70%, body 30%]




p.s. (in Italiano):
vai sul sito di G.Frudua c'è una spiegazione chiara ed illustrata.

 

[Nando Vallart]

Yes.

The top 3 in my humble opinion is:

1. Pickups

2. Neck

3. Body

I'd add scale lenght before the neck

 

[Jusatele]

I think that pickups are the most important, you can have the best tone woods, the best hardware, a great tight neck joint
and I agree about scale length also'
but of all of those, bad pickups will ruin a guitars tone the quickest.

also remember, Leo experimented with bodies a good bit and found a 2 or 3 piece body as better than a solid, it had to do with the way the different pieces of wood vibrated. He always was looking for the cleanest tone he could get.

 

[Marco78]

Thanks for your reply boys!!

PS: grazie Bruno, il sito è interessante!!

 

[jrybicki]

pickups make the sound. on an electric, the sound through my amp with my lace sensor pickups in my squire strat was the same as they are now in my $1,100 warmoth build. but, the tone and feel and playability come from the quality. like the chambered body and quality locking tuners and weight make a killer sustaining tone! im playing my strat acoustically alot now! cant do that with a fender.

 

[Marco78]

pickups make the sound. on an electric, the sound through my amp with my lace sensor pickups in my squire strat was the same as they are now in my $1,100 warmoth build. but, the tone and feel and playability come from the quality. like the chambered body and quality locking tuners and weight make a killer sustaining tone! im playing my strat acoustically alot now! cant do that with a fender.

Sorry, but isnt' "tone" and "sound" the same thing? I don't think that only the pickups make the sound, otherwise all the fender american standard (or gibson LP standard or ibanez RG) play in the same way.

 

[Heavy Rock]

An electric guitar's sound can never be without an amp. So I'd say amp dominates everything else. However, pickups come close second and wood, scale and hardware follow very closely.

On the body/neck wood issue I tend to think they're around 50% each. I think, not only the neck wood but the fretboard wood is also very very important.

That is when you have the same neck joint (here bolt-on).

If you want to compare all electric guitars then neck joint affects the tone more than the woods and the woods affect it in a different way for each neck joint.

 

[crash]

My tele played acoustically is very bright and snappy as you would expect with the body and neck made of Padauk.  But with the BKP Piledrivers, very fat sounding when played through an amp.  So I would say pickups would be closer to 70% of the overall tone.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

What an electric instrument does acoustically is not a tell-tale of how the pickups will perform through an amp.  How an electric instrument performs acoustically is just how it performs acoustically.  Many report dead amplified instruments that sounded great acoustically, many report acoustically dead sounding instruments that are great plugged in.  Others report instruments that sound dead both ways and alive both ways.