November 2015 Guitar of the Month Contest Submissions
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StaticRick
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I think I need to up my photography skills before I enter again.
It won't be too long before I can do some "guitar in the snow" photos.
It won't be too long before I can do some "guitar in the snow" photos.
amigarobbo
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DMRACO said:
The neck was heavy, so I was going for a heavier body,
Here's the build thread:
http://unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=25536.0
Where I say
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Yep, I went for figured Walnut, in that finish! Ha! How do you like that Mother nature!!! No seriously, it's normal walnut, I wanted a heavy dense wood, I was going to go for Maple, but I think that might have been too heavy, so I went for something almost as heavy, and although we all know wood doesn't have an effect on tone, but according to somethings I've read the sound and 'responsiveness' ( http://www.alembic.com/info/wood_body.html ) of walnut is what I wanted. I dunno if it'll turn out like that especially with those pickups, until I finished it, but I will say it very quiet played acoustically.
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It does seem to be getting slightly louder acoustically, or maybe I'm just getting used to it. The Bass is probably a bit too heavy, but my spine is still relatively strong and flexible, for a man of my age. :-\
BlueTalon
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"...we all know wood doesn't have an effect on tone..."
Aren't you overstating that a bit? A lot of us, including the people at Warmoth, think exactly the opposite -- the choice of wood can have a substantial impact on the tone.
There is room for different opinions, of course. If you don't think the choice of body wood will make a difference in the tone, I'm not going to try to convince you otherwise, but I'd avoid the blanket statements.
Aren't you overstating that a bit? A lot of us, including the people at Warmoth, think exactly the opposite -- the choice of wood can have a substantial impact on the tone.
There is room for different opinions, of course. If you don't think the choice of body wood will make a difference in the tone, I'm not going to try to convince you otherwise, but I'd avoid the blanket statements.
amigarobbo
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Sorry, that should have been read more along the lines of
"and although we all know wood doesn't have an effect on tone
, but I've chosen the wood based on it's reported tone."
Actually without getting to much into the rather nasty t*newood debate, this series of videos makes for interesting if very long viewing
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1doUxjPfc7w[/youtube]
In fact forget the tone wood aspect, its just a series of interesting guitar build videos anyway.
Oh, and since I've started, how can a brass nut make a difference to the sound but not the physical properties of the thing that the nut is mounted in? Sure a guitar is made up of a load of different things, and it's hard to isolate individual effects, but for flips sakes there's a huge difference between saying that the body wood makes NO difference to the tone to saying the effect is so small as to be irrelevant once you've put it through 3 distortion pedals, a ring modulator, phaser and gulp, solid state amplifier.
At 132dB.
I'm going to have a lie down now.
"and although we all know wood doesn't have an effect on tone
Actually without getting to much into the rather nasty t*newood debate, this series of videos makes for interesting if very long viewing
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1doUxjPfc7w[/youtube]
In fact forget the tone wood aspect, its just a series of interesting guitar build videos anyway.
Oh, and since I've started, how can a brass nut make a difference to the sound but not the physical properties of the thing that the nut is mounted in? Sure a guitar is made up of a load of different things, and it's hard to isolate individual effects, but for flips sakes there's a huge difference between saying that the body wood makes NO difference to the tone to saying the effect is so small as to be irrelevant once you've put it through 3 distortion pedals, a ring modulator, phaser and gulp, solid state amplifier.
At 132dB.
I'm going to have a lie down now.
Surf n Music n Ski n Bike
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Dam that is a lot of fine guitars! Good luck ya all.
