Suhr's description of tone woods

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

I think any wood can be destroyed if you are brutal on it.

My TFS6 is Basswood with a maple veneer, and it is a pointy guitar, and it's been my main axe for 16 1/2 years, no chips, just the usual belt buckle road rash on the trem cover area.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

I'm not here to say what anyone else's experience is with basswood, only that mine was negative. 

 

[greywolf]

As I  recall Allan Holdsworth's early signature models were basswood.

I don't use it because it is boring to look at

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

Great example, and I'm sure most agree Alan Holdsworth doesn't need basswood to sound great, nor would a baswood body make anyone sound like him.

 

[m4rk0]

except for that one time he played a swamp ash bodied guitar.. he sounded awful!!

 

[ihavenothingprofoundtosay]

except for that one time he played a swamp ash bodied guitar.. he sounded awful!!

You forget, he was wearing stripes at the time, and his speaker grilles were covered with the blood of a freshly slain ox. That is why his tone sucked.

 

[SustainerPlayer]

5 out of my 8 Warmoths are basswood bodies. And they sing sweet.

But I make them sound that way. I know.  :icon_jokercolor:

On the other side I never had an alder bodied guitar where humbuckers sounded good. And I guess I've been through 20+ of the kind.

That must mean that alder sucks as a tone wood right?

But then again - none of them were Warmoths. And all my Warmoths sounds and play fantastic.

But that is maybe because I am a fantastic parts assembler and guitar set-up hero?

Anyway - solid colours sound much better!

 

[Cagey]

Some guitars come to life under your hands. Others... not so much. It's a mystery for the ages.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

I need to follow my own advice of not forming opinions on one example.

 

[JonatanOTG]

Biggest tone factors in this order:
-color of guitar finish
-material of insulator between tip and ring on cable
-guitar wiring color
-hair length of player
-dominant right eye
-strap button material

Very true!  :icon_biggrin: