I will put my $0.02 in. This topic has been talked to death over the years and my point is, Does it make a difference in the end? Let me finish. I have been playing guitar for 46 years and I have had guitars made out of some of the strangest materials. I had an acrylic guitar in the '70's. Sounding just like my Les Paul. Why? Because the body material and neck have no part in the tone of an ELECTRIC GUITAR! Not shouting, just talking about electrics and not acoustics. Read all of Les Pauls comments about tone wood. When he made the log he added the hollow body wings to it because the guys in the orchestra would not have bought it. Look at all the guitars that Justin Johnson has! He has them made out of shovels, boxes, wood, plastic, and I have seen them made out of cinder blocks, plastic, metal, carbon fiber and you name it, someone has made it. The body, no matter what it is made of does not get picked up by the pickups. Think about it, if a shredder is playing supper fast, by the time the vibration goes from the string thru the bridge and to the body and neck, he is 100 notes past that and the vibration would never even come into play. Think about it. The speed of sound is not the speed of electricity or light. Make sense? I cannot in any way shape or form believe that the body and neck material have anything to do with the sound of an electric guitar. Can't happen. By the time the body would vibrate from the string transferring energy to the bridge, and I say bridge only because the nut does not matter unless you play an open note, there is no way the vibrations would turn around and go from the body and neck, back to the bridge and into the strings again and be picked up by the pickup. The pickup is the only way the sound gets to the amp thru the guitar cord. Do you really think that it works any other way? Not! Sorry but it is virtually impossible to work this way and it is the only way it could work. A pickup is not a microphone per say, it can't pick up sound from afar. It only picks up the strings vibration. It has to be really close to a pickup to be transferred too the amp and the wood is way too far away to come into play. Just play and forget about tone wood. It is aesthetic only. Everyone likes a pretty looking guitar.