What woods do you use?

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i need some opinions from guys who have played these wood combinations and their opinions. both would be greatly helpful!

also, any information you can give on this subject would be nice as well.. :)

i would love to try an alder guitar with an ebony/maple neck

and a mahogany/maple top with maple/rosewood fretboard

and a mahogany/maple top with maple/ebony fretboard

im also curious as to this pau ferro i keep seeing alot of the suhr guys using. is that a maple bight type of wood? does it have the string like snap to it? what does it feel like?

i know each persons opinions here will be different but give me everything you got. i can only order 1 custom guitar in the far future and i would like to know to end my curiosity. im looking for the best balance in tone, resonance, feel, and representation of the pickups you use and also small qwirks (fingering, picking technique, tapped harmonics, etc)

the bridge will be a floating gotoh.

currently im thinking mahogany/maple top with a maple neck but have no clue as to what fretboard to use.

thanks ahead of time :thumbsup:
 
glpg80":21dx5um9 said:
...mahogany/maple top with maple/rosewood fretboard...
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This has been what I've been going with for years now, and I love it. To me it seems like the best of all worlds tone wise. :rock:
 
hog with a maple cap, plus maple neck and rosewood board would kill!


pretty hard to beat a maple neck with rosewood board.


i have a Pao Ferro board, but it's on a wenge neck. the combo is awesome with ripping mids, it was made to rip out Def Lep LET IT GO. how Pao is with other woods i don't know, suspect it's not too much deferent from rosewood?


mahogany is allright for necks also for the warmth, but seems to me the giant slabs like an LP sound better than when it gets thinned down like on an Explorer. so guess i'd still want a maple neck in most shaped guitars.
 
mahogany/maple top - warm, very resonant sound

alder body - nowhere as warm & resonant as the one above, however lots of more bite, aggression & snap in the sound, overall tighter

I like both, that's why I own both. I use alder for more aggressive metal content; mahogany/maple is very versatile, can do anything. If I had to have one I'd pick the mahogany/maple.

I can't help you with rosewood, but maple/ebony fretboard goes very well with both woods above.
 
I use Ping Fairway woods and a Ping I5 Driver with a 73 gram Diamana X stiff white board. :D Just sayin...
 
I liked the Kramer Nightswans. They had the mahogany bodies.
sounded great. still on the lookout for one. :D
 
rareguitar":37nw7tml said:
I use Ping Fairway woods and a Ping I5 Driver with a 73 gram Diamana X stiff white board. :D Just sayin...
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my dad's a huge golfer too.

hey brad, what was that black kramer made out of, that you owned a long time ago?
 
glpg80":39ugdz9b said:
rareguitar":39ugdz9b said:
I use Ping Fairway woods and a Ping I5 Driver with a 73 gram Diamana X stiff white board. :D Just sayin...
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my dad's a huge golfer too.

hey brad, what was that black kramer made out of, that you owned a long time ago?
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Kramer Liberty American, Killer Guitar, wish I had it back.

Neck Thru body mahogany with a maple top.
 
main Gutierrez:

Wenge neck thru body
Maple wings
Ebony fingerboard

Campbell Precix:

Poplar body
Maple Neck
Ebony fingerboard

White RG550:

Basswood body
Maple neck
Maple fingerboard

etc
 
I saw Tom Anderson do a clinic once with all the same guitars,but 1 difference in each;ie; pickguard, w/out, etc..you can hear it for sure..but live,cranking thru a bunch of amps, I dont know..When I do sessions I use:
Tele-ash body,curly maple top, maple board
Strat- alder body, maple top, maple board
Paul- the usual
Jackson soloist- alder or Koa, ebony fingerboard
I had a knightswan,man I miss it--sounded great--hondurous mohogany/ebony
 
I've been through a few combinations, but I keep going back to mahog/maple with rosewood for what I'm doing.
 
My new suhr standard is coming with alder body maple neck brazillion rosewood fretboard can't wait to see how it'a going to sound.
 
Mahogony tends to generate a darker sound, while maple is brighter and pops more. Birdseye maple is even more brigher. I have both solid maple and mahogony strat bodied guitars (with maple necks) and like them both, but they are completely different in tone. Depends what sound you are after.

When you put the two together (especially in a body), you start to get a more balanced tone similar to alder.

I have a GMW strat, mahogony body with maple top and mahogony neck with ebony board--the guitar is a well-balanced tone monster. Lots of punch. MY SG is thin solid mahogony body and neck with rosewood board. Doesn't have as much punch, probably because it lacks the maple.
 
i think it depends A LOT on how the guitar is built...glued in neck or neck through or bolt on? etc...

i have 4 guitars at the moment:

2 jacksons with alder body and maple neckthrough with ebony fingerbard and they just screams...they can cut through the mix really well, with just the right amount of high end, alder is a very balanced wood with the right amount of frequences all over the sonic spectrum.

1 gibson lp custom, mahogany body with maple top, mahogany neck and ebony fingerboard, the amount of wood is huge (and the weight :D ) but this beast sounds HUGE, with the right electronics it has more bass than any other guitar i had, but not in exess. i think ebony and maple just sounds right to me in a LP, the make it sounds tighter....i tried LP with rosewood and while they sounded more twangy they had little more mids and less bass...my 2 cents

1 charvel with alder body and maple neck and fingerboard, this is best sounding neck i've tried!! fantastic to play! and made me think maple is the perfect wood for bolt on type guitars...it has those highs that fits the mix really well...if you sound clean thay can be really bell-like...then turn the tone knob and you have another world...

here's my thought...
 
rareguitar":kbp9g04v said:
I use Ping Fairway woods and a Ping I5 Driver with a 73 gram Diamana X stiff white board. :D Just sayin...
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Beat me to it....

Calloway Hawkeye driver and Steelhead fairway woods. :D
 
JackTripper":2mydj4oz said:
Mahogony tends to generate a darker sound, while maple is brighter and pops more. Birdseye maple is even more brigher. I have both solid maple and mahogony strat bodied guitars (with maple necks) and like them both, but they are completely different in tone. Depends what sound you are after.

When you put the two together (especially in a body), you start to get a more balanced tone similar to alder.

I have a GMW strat, mahogony body with maple top and mahogony neck with ebony board--the guitar is a well-balanced tone monster. Lots of punch. MY SG is thin solid mahogony body and neck with rosewood board. Doesn't have as much punch, probably because it lacks the maple.
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There is more to it than different wood. That would over simplify how resonance works.

My favorite guitar is mahogany / maple top / rose wood. My number two is ash / maple neck / rosewood. But the guitars that had the best tones for me has always been mahogany and ebony ~ fast attack and thick. Like said it is all what you are going for.
 
B. Ste":15dhwlxx said:
i think it depends A LOT on how the guitar is built...glued in neck or neck through or bolt on? etc...

i have 4 guitars at the moment:

2 jacksons with alder body and maple neckthrough with ebony fingerbard and they just screams...they can cut through the mix really well, with just the right amount of high end, alder is a very balanced wood with the right amount of frequences all over the sonic spectrum.

1 gibson lp custom, mahogany body with maple top, mahogany neck and ebony fingerboard, the amount of wood is huge (and the weight :D ) but this beast sounds HUGE, with the right electronics it has more bass than any other guitar i had, but not in exess. i think ebony and maple just sounds right to me in a LP, the make it sounds tighter....i tried LP with rosewood and while they sounded more twangy they had little more mids and less bass...my 2 cents

1 charvel with alder body and maple neck and fingerboard, this is best sounding neck i've tried!! fantastic to play! and made me think maple is the perfect wood for bolt on type guitars...it has those highs that fits the mix really well...if you sound clean thay can be really bell-like...then turn the tone knob and you have another world...

here's my thought...
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thanks for the comparison with the ebony versus rosewood on a maple neck, thats really helpful :yes: :thumbsup:

i have always been a maple/maple fan-boy. my wolfgang was maple/maple and killed with basswood.

im now thinking the thick properties of mahogany wouldnt be to my liking, maybe ill try basswood/maple top/maple neck/ebony fretboard.
 
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