Zach says Tone Wood does not matter..

[Devin]

so how does it happen in the first place?

kiln

 

[japetus]

I have a feeling that will probably never happen naturally unless you live in a desert or something

Dude, I think you may have just came up with the greatest idea...."sand relicing".

 

[7704A]

There's other reasons besides wood for two guitars to sound different...

 

[Briman24]

so how does it happen in the first place?

My guess is drier wood resonates more than wood that has a tad of moisture.

 

[311boogieman]

I cannot imagine taking Zack Wylde’s opinion on anything in life particularly seriously to be honest.

 

[valve]

There's other reasons besides wood for two guitars to sound different...

yes, absolutlety, but i have partcasters where i swamped necks with identical hardware....
THe bridge position and neckpockets are also within 1mm

 

[valve]

My guess is drier wood resonates more than wood that has a tad of moisture.

sure does, and also is less prone to deformation.
But what i was getting at, that if you let would air dry, even at 60% air humidity, it will get drier over the years, if it is freshly harvested

 

[valve]

kiln

yes, that's a possibilty (and used to speed it up), but just air works also...

 

[311boogieman]

I sealed my deck this morning, we have a few dry days perfect for it to cure
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Are you BBQ'ing shoes again? What woodchip flavor is your favorite. Tone chips matter.

 

[japetus]

Are you BBQ'ing shoes again? What woodchip flavor is your favorite. Tone chips matter.

Yes, it's Sole Food. I use all hardwood, I have a stack of white oak and some old dried apple wood staves.

 

[VonBonfire]

Are you BBQ'ing shoes again? What woodchip flavor is your favorite. Tone chips matter.

Fancy wood smoking chips are for rich people but back when I didn't have a choice but to be rich we used hickory and apple for mullet and salmon IIRC. I'm stuck using unprocessed live oak now although I have a couple mesquite trees on my property that will be usable for some smoking wood in <5 years.

 

[anomaly]

I did not read all the posts but active pups nulify the wood
With passive pups whelp I'm preachin to the choir. It's not like I'm on the phone with Spicoli at guitar center

I disagree. Active pickups, although different in ways, do exactly the same thing as passive pickups. I've played many EMG loaded guitars and they still had their own unique personalities. I think the wood of a electric guitar matters, just not as much as the pickups, nut and bridge.

 

[Rackman]

I disagree. Active pickups, although different in ways, do exactly the same thing as passive pickups. I've played many EMG loaded guitars and they still had their own unique personalities.

I've had lots of EMG guitars too. I think they do hide some of the differences in wood, but not all of it.

They are also extremely sensitive to pickup height, which has tripped me up with some of the higher Z-height EMGs like the 57TW.

 

[anomaly]

I've had lots of EMG guitars too. I think they do hide some of the differences in wood, but not all of it.

They are also extremely sensitive to pickup height, which has tripped me up with some of the higher Z-height EMGs like the 57TW.

I think they just have a strong character to them, so people think they hide the character of the guitar. Plus, they are quite compressed compared to passives and that will do the same. Thing is they do exactly what passives do, pickup the vibrations from the strings, which resonate the wood which imparts it's sonic signature back onto the strings.

 

[311boogieman]

Fancy wood smoking chips are for rich people but back when I didn't have a choice but to be rich we used hickory and apple for mullet and salmon IIRC. I'm stuck using unprocessed live oak now although I have a couple mesquite trees on my property that will be usable for some smoking wood in <5 years.

I don't always use hickory chips but when I don't, I use apple chips.

 

[VonBonfire]

I don't always use hickory chips but when I don't, I use apple chips.

Smoked salmon and smoked fish in general are among my top foods. It's hard to beat smoked mullet but I did have the best fried catfish of my life down in Clarksdale.

 

[7704A]

yes, absolutlety, but i have partcasters where i swamped necks with identical hardware....
THe bridge position and neckpockets are also within 1mm

Does identical hardware mean same model, or same physical item? Also I ran the math a while ago, and if I recall correctly 1mm variations in the neck pocket dimensions shifted things around in a way that's been experimentally measured to impact the sound. I'll have to go find my calculations.

 

[tallcoolone]

Dead wood is a real thing…unfortunately lol