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Post subject: Mohagany bodies
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 8:26 am
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This question may have already been asked but do the strat bodies made of mohogany differ all that much from bodies made of ash or alder? Is it noticable or worth getting?


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Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 4:06 pm
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it's gonna be heavier at the least.


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Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 7:26 pm
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uteowl wrote:
it's gonna be heavier at the least.


Unless its' chambered...


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Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 6:12 am
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Or unless it's just a light piece of mahogany. There's a one-piece mahogany Strat body with a quilt maple cap in the Warmoth shop right now that only weighs 3 pounds 4 ounces.

I don't think you can predict ANYTHING about a piece of wood from knowing its species. The common knowledge on this subject - mahogany is "mid-range-y," alder is "focused" (whatever that means), ash is "light and resonant" (except for "hard Northern ash," which is "heavy and ping-y") - is pure voodoo IMO, as most common knowledge is.

I play a chambered mahogany Strat with an ebony fingerboard and EMG SV (Strat Vintage) pickups in it, and guess what? It sound like me playing a Strat. :D


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Guess I'm still learning. I know that there are chambered Les Paul bodies, didn't know that it was being done with strat bodies as well.


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Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:51 am
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Lots of aftermarket guys do simple hollowed-out Strats (big chambers on both sides of a center core, like a Thinline), but only Warmoth offers this groovily-engineered chambered Strat (this is what my guitar is):

http://www.warmoth.com/guitar/bodies/st ... rat_hollow

It's completely awesome... good weight reduction and improved resonance with just about any piece of wood.


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It would seem to me that with a 3 to 4 pound body, there would be some ba;ance issues with the neck being too heavy and continually wanting to drop down?


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Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 9:31 am
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Not on my guitar. The body was 3 pounds 8 ounces naked and it is perfectly balanced. I don't think you'd want to go much lighter than 3.5 pounds, though.


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okay, so the general consenses is that the spieces of the body material doesn't make a big diffrence. Are there any american special mohogany or deluxe owners out there who would like to put their two cents in? My strat body is hard northern ash, kind of heavy.


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okay, so the general consenses is that the spieces of the body material doesn't make a big diffrence. Are there any american special mohogany or deluxe owners out there who would like to put their two cents in? My strat body is hard northern ash, kind of heavy.


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Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 3:47 pm
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MAHOGANY can be very heavy.


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So can alder. And ash.


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Gravity Jim wrote:
So can alder. And ash.


Yes they can, but two times incorrect spelling of the word mahogany ?
Yeah i know what does it matter.

Sorry


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That USA Mahogany HSS strat is killer. I like the way it sounds and plays.


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lostindesert wrote:
Gravity Jim wrote:
So can alder. And ash.


Yes they can, but two times incorrect spelling of the word mahogany ?
Yeah i know what does it matter.

Sorry


Oh, I see. Duh.


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