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Post subject: What type of wood is my Strat made of?
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 8:12 am
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I have a 1999 US strat in a natural finish. I know starts are normally alder, but I've read that ash is sometimes used for guitars with a natural finish as it has a nicer grain. It's a pretty bright sounding guitar.

How can I tell for sure?


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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 8:29 am
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Hi welcome to the forum......post a pic and the seasoned players here will give you an idea of what your guitar body is. :D


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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 8:42 am
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there she be.

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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 8:54 am
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I don't know what kind of wood that is, but that is one sweet-lookin' axe! :shock:

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Ash!!

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Sweet :D
My vote is Ash...

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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:19 am
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Ash.

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Yup thats Ash, beautiful guitar man!


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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:05 am
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thanks folks! ash makes sense, it's very bright.


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tbm wrote:
there she be.

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Welcome to the forum tbm! Looks like a beautiful ash guitar to me! 8)


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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:32 am
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That is a fine specimen too. Very nice strat, you should keep that one. The wood is not figured, the grain is beautiful, and it looks like they did a great job bookmatching the two piece body wood. Some may think that is one solid piece they did so well on the bookmatching, but I can see its a two piece body, with the seam right down the middle. My new strat has three pieces bookmatched, but not that well.

You can tell its ASH by the grain and color, it's wide and very visible, while alder grain is more subtle and generally has some sort of figuring. Based on what I have seen in the stores recently, I would say Fender did well above their average on picking the body wood pieces and bookmatching these pieces. They seem to be hit or miss on this. For instance, the day I bought my guitar, I was initially wanting the Sienna Sunburst. The first one I seen was bookmatched great and had two very nice pieces, like yours. The problem was it had a rosewood FB and I wanted maple. They had the maple in Sienna two, but the body pieces were not picked and bookmatched at all. The bass side had massive figuring while the treble side had no figuring. I like figuring only if its uniform and bookmatched. It looked ugle to me being figured on only one half. So I went with a three tone, which luckily they had two of with maple FB. One had a similar figuring issue and the one I picked looked better matched, with minimal figuring

You have a keeper! :wink:

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I want to be controversial here, I want to stand out from the crowd.

It's ash.

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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 2:04 pm
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That is a fine specimen too. Very nice strat, you should keep that one. The wood is not figured, the grain is beautiful, and it looks like they did a great job bookmatching the two piece body wood. Some may think that is one solid piece they did so well on the bookmatching, but I can see its a two piece body, with the seam right down the middle. My new strat has three pieces bookmatched, but not that well.

You can tell its ASH by the grain and color, it's wide and very visible, while alder grain is more subtle and generally has some sort of figuring. Based on what I have seen in the stores recently, I would say Fender did well above their average on picking the body wood pieces and bookmatching these pieces. They seem to be hit or miss on this. For instance, the day I bought my guitar, I was initially wanting the Sienna Sunburst. The first one I seen was bookmatched great and had two very nice pieces, like yours. The problem was it had a rosewood FB and I wanted maple. They had the maple in Sienna two, but the body pieces were not picked and bookmatched at all. The bass side had massive figuring while the treble side had no figuring. I like figuring only if its uniform and bookmatched. It looked ugle to me being figured on only one half. So I went with a three tone, which luckily they had two of with maple FB. One had a similar figuring issue and the one I picked looked better matched, with minimal figuring

You have a keeper! :wink:

Bookmatching wood is when you take a plank of wood and saw it down the middle and open it up like a book to create two pieces that near mirrow each other. They don't do that with three.

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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 2:18 pm
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Bookmatching wood is when you take a plank of wood and saw it down the middle and open it up like a book to create two pieces that near mirrow each other. They don't do that with three.[/quote]

Thanks for the info, I misused the word and stand corrected. I thought it was the practice of trying to match pieces so the grain would almost line up and look like one single piece, as it appears on this guitar. Maybe just "matched" would have been a better term????

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Nice body I love the grain and I also love how I learn new stuff from reading posts like this hehehe :)


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