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Post subject: Re: Jimmie Vaughan Strat laminate body?
Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2017 6:20 am
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jmattis wrote:
Linden (aka basswood) has also been used in high quality instruments, regardless of knock test results. Just like almost any wood(/other material) imaginable.

Indeed. "Anything goes".
For an electric guitar, as long as the materials don't affect the structural integrity, the design and workmanship outweighs the materials used for quality and price.

Many of the materials used were not picked by a "golden ear", but factors like availability, costs and ease to work. And poplar and basswood rank very high in all three.
Even ash was chosen mainly because it was what was readily available when Leo Fender started making guitars, and not heavy enough to break a young buyer's back. (They also tested pine, which was even cheaper, but much more difficult to tool.)
Maple necks because maple was readily available in neck lengths, without knots.

If Fender had lived in Northern Europe instead of California, we might have played birch guitars with beech necks, and been perfectly happy with that.


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