Anyone Have a Maple Body Guitar?

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Whoa, that Mockingbird is beautiful! I've always wanted a natural finish Mockingbird. I wonder if the cheaper import models are decent....

My Ibanez Artcore semi-hollow is all maple, and is a bright sounding guitar, for sure. The maple, in combination with the semi-hollow construction, gives it a snappy growl that none of my other guitars can achieve. It takes modern high gain sounds very well. I use it for everything, including down-tuned progressive metal! It's a kickass guitar. Sometimes the brightness bothers me though. I need to do a pickup swap on it and find something I'm happier with. Maybe it's time to give Motor City pickups a try.
 
Used to have an all maple Carvin DC127. Was a killer guitar. It wasnt too bright
 
I had a solid maple body Suhr Modern Exotic with a zebrawood neck....and if it was the only Suhr I had I would have thought it was the Cats Meow, but when you played it back to back with maple topped, basswood body...it was readily apparent how bright it was...and how much heavier it was...great guitar though.....



 
I have owned a guitar and bass with maple bodies.

I had a Parker Nitefly with a maple body. The Nitefly series were made in the USA and had the Parker shape but the necks were bolt on and the bodies were not cut near as thin. The Nitefly I-IV models had maple bodies. Compared to a Fender Hwy 1 Strat I had at the time, the Nitefly had more bass and sounded thicker than the Fender, there were less "ice pick" high frequencies as well. The maple bodied Parkers were probably the heaviest guitars they ever produced (which isn't saying much). I never weighed mine but it was a little heavier than my strat, but nowhere near the Vintage Mahogany LP I had.

My bass is a Rickenbacker 4001, maple body and neck with rosewood fretboard. I think that bass has more mids and cuts better than any Fender bass I have owned.

Overall my maple instruments have been very stable and cut through a mix well. I wouldn't consider a maple body a drawback at all.
 
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