The Muse I Adorn

RVA said:
Nothing like a good piece of wood. If only it has a sound...or tone.

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Since you're throwing the bait out there...

Your Tom Anderson Raven looks like it has a mahogany body. If the body was made of alder: It will sound different. If the fretboard was made of maple: It will sound different. Change the type of wood on that neck: It will sound different. If you ask Tom Anderson: It will sound different.

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syscokid said:
Since you're throwing the bait out there...

Your Tom Anderson Raven looks like it has a mahogany body. If the body was made of alder: It will sound different. If the fretboard was made of maple: It will sound different. Change the type of wood on that neck: It will sound different. If you ask Tom Anderson: It will sound different.

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Tom Anderson sells guitars. His rep told me to spend 3K on a similar guitar because neck wood and body style means a different sound. I say the 3K has more to do with that opinion than the wood.

I will play each of my guitars. I bet you will not do any better than random when asked what wood it is made of. I also bet I can put the same pups in a different guitar of the same scale and you will have trouble telling them apart. Feeling lucky?
 
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$3K has to do more with cost of labor, materials, and profit. A bad reputation means you can't sell a guitar for that $3K.
 
syscokid said:
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$3K has to do more with cost of labor, materials, and profit. A bad reputation means you can't sell a guitar for that $3K.
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I think it is worth 3K, I am just noting that it is lucrative to sell 3 x $3K by extolling the need for one in each wood type
 
syscokid said:
I won't be able to tell what kind of wood, but I'll be able to tell that they might sound different from each other.
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And will maple be brighter, and mahogany be darker, and ash the brightest? The argument is not that guitars sound different, only whether it is related to the wood, and even more so in a predictable fashion.
 
RVA said:
And will maple be brighter, and mahogany be darker, and ash the brightest? The argument is not that guitars sound different, only whether it is related to the wood, and even more so in a predictable fashion.
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Uhm... Yes... No... Maybe? I'm lost now. But I would believe that maple would be brighter than ash.
 
For every one style guitar that I own, RVA owns one in each color and/or option. I own 1 Strat style guitar, RVA owns how many? The world may never know how truly large his collection is. Then we move on to the LPs, then the SGs, then the PRSs. The list goes on. It's not just your everyday lumber, he's got some mighty pretty lumber.
 
RVA said:
Yes, but because I am obsessed with guitars, not because of the tonal differences in the wood. I want them all...which is why I am checking into rehab as soon as I get the 2 new guitars I have coming this week...my last horah!!
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Jesus, I can relate. I hadn’t bought a guitar in 13 years until I stumbled into this place back in Feb. The UPS guys have been at my place many times each week since with parts, guitars and amps.
 
tonight I blew the dust of from the case and pulled Taka out for some attention. Taka is a Takamine GD71CE-NAT. After only a few minutes of playing I was reminded of why I prefer playing electric. Where my forearm makes contact with edge of the body is uncomfortable. Perhaps how I have it positioned, perhaps because of my fat belly, I dunno. So here is what I started playing tonight. I soon switched back to the 339.

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