I've seen a few very different style chambered bodies from what I had previously
seen and would like to ask the players that use these what they like and don't like
about their chambered bodies.

For example, tone, sustain, playability, woods, etc.

Discuss...

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For example :

http://www.warmoth.com/Guitar/Body/Stra ... Chambered/

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Would be very interesting to hear if there was anyone with experience from this....
I've got two solid strats and two hollow teles (not really- : they are thinlines!) , kind of digging the more airy tone and sustain. My mahogany tele sounds a bit more mellow than the ash one , which also has got a beautiful tone , but tends to scream out more , if it is pushed to limits......
Chambered strats, anyone ?

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Mike; on the Les Paul sites, chambered vs weight relieved vs solid has been discussed so much that if you start a thread about it you'll get berated and shot down for even asking. To say the least, it's a touchy subject. Some guys sware that a real guitar is solid body, even if it weighs 15#'s, all the better. I'm not one of those guys. My '07 LP Standard Faded is chambered. It was modified by Larry Corsa. Larry modded about 275 of Gibson's Faded Standards that were chambered. He feels its the best sounding LP that Gibson has ever made. Here's a video of Larry playing my guitar before he shipped it to me. He makes a video of every guitar he sells.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... aj7dT-t2g#!

Besides my LP, I have a Thinline Tele and a hollow body Guild Starfire IV. They all have similar characteristics when being played acoustically and not plugged into an amp. They are great guitars for practicing in the house and can sound great once you plug into an amp. That being said, I'm getting ready to order a Carvin CS which is their version of an LP. It will be solid body because I want the variety, not because I think it'll be any better.

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'10 American Deluxe HSS Sunset Metallic
'10 JA-90 Thinline Telecaster
'15 Music Man JP-15 Blueberry Burst
'07 Les Paul Standard Faded LCPG #82
'14 Carvin ST300
'12 Carvin CS424S
'66 Guild Starfire IV w/Bigsby
'14 Warmouth Partscaster Daphne Blue

Very broadly speaking, chambering will decease sustain a bit, increase dynamics a bit, and have a bit more emphasis on harmonics than the fundamental. So, vaguely acoustic-like, depending on how you define "acoustic". How much it does this varies from piece to piece, wood to wood, and design to design. The smaller the chambers, the higher the resonance of any added overtones, which is why larger chambers/semi-hollows can sometimes be honky sounding. Getting them smaller (like Warmoth) keeps the midrange flatter.

The most important wood in a solidbody is the stuff closest to the strings, so chambering around the periphery of the guitar will do less than if it is through the whole instrument. That generally is a good way to affect weight while affecting tone minimally.

Personally I wouldn't try to chamber something that already has a light, airy sound. A better candidate would be a design that tends to be clunky with a strong fundamental, which (I think) is why the Bluesbirds are so cool, and the LPs really benefit.

Bear in mind these are all generalizations. Ultimately in luthiery, you gotta try it to know what it'll do.

Something similar on a Strat might be the swimming pool route. There does seem to be some affect on the sound. Billy Gibbons called it an "echo chamber" and he preferred that routing, and I can hear that effect on my Blacktop.

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