Moisture & "resin" are two separate things. One of the claimed reasons that old wood is better is because the resin (sap) has crystallized, thereby turning the wood into a sort-of rigid honeycomb structure. If just drying up the water alone made guitars better, the "rules" and lore would be different. I would guess that crystallizing the resin also seals off the cell and grain interiors from absorbing and discharging water so easily? I'd also guess that baking it long enough to set the resins will also cook out the water, but it should make it a lot more resistant to absorbing any new moisture. I end up wondering if making the wood that much harder and rigid might also decrease the warmth? There actually are ways to get TOO much treble - pretty easily.
It seems pretty obvious that a number of questions about transmission and absorption of vibration, measuring and
creating resonant peaks etc. could be at least better defined with an oscilloscope and sine-wave generator, but for some odd reason you don't see those kinds of studies in guitar mags or manufacturer's websites. Because music is all "personal opinion" and "taste" and context - old guys with green eyeshades tapping on boards, squinting at boards, smelling boards, wait - did he just LICK it?!?!
JUST SHUT UP AND BUY THEM ALL, KID! Wassamatta with you - don't you CARE about music? Oh well, only the REAL musicians can hear the difference! Do you really suck THAT bad/maybe you just don't DESERVE a SquiffleSnorg Dominator III, kid*....
Several times I have read Mr. Woodihead the Online X-Spurt (or one of his disciples) say that besides being crystallized, the old Fender maple is "better" because it's "old-growth" maple, and the lines are much closer together because it was colder 250 years ago. And various sneaky little luthiers obtain illicit stashes of X-Tra-special old growth maple from lake bottoms and old buildings and bedframes of kings & Chinese emperors etc. Outstanding! And they'll turn you on to some, but it's gonna cost ya. Fine, great, super.... but I have made the mistake of asking something like:
Doesn't that just mean that, like: new, softer, wide-grained fast-growth cheapass commie scut-maple is simply going to have a warmer tone, closer to mahogany, and it's not "wrong" or "stupid" or "evil," it's just another, different, choice? :icon_scratch:
So far my research overwhelmingly indicates that only dooshbag losery haterz'z could even
think anything so retarded and I should ask my mommy for another cookie.
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Adolf Hitler! :toothy10: :hello2: :blob7:
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