SamTherapy opened this issue on Nov 20, 2002 ยท 62 posts
BeatYourSoul posted Fri, 22 November 2002 at 12:53 PM
Look, I'm not going on about this anymore. It is information gathered from other guitarists, luthiers, books, magazines, personal experience, and a knowledge of materials, physics, and acoustics. If it were only a myth that density adds sustain and different woods apply different tonal qualities to electric guitars, why do all of the manufacturers and all of the luthiers and many guitarists all go on about it? Are we all delusional? Nope. As for the weight. Obviously not. As was discussed in the one set of paragraphs, some wood is denser than others but lighter. I'll admit that most dense woods are heavier woods, but this is obviously not the case for all woods. The "guy" you are dissing is Melvyn Hiscock, author of "Making Your Own Electric Guitar" and guitar maker for over 25 years. Please read this from Amazon: Link to book and note the lousy rating (5 stars of 5) for his lack of knowledge. Let's agree to disagree and get back to modelling and oogling over synergyauto's beauty guitar model.