Tone Wood Importance

[daveq]

"But on the other hand, nobody in this field ... would ever say that if you put the best wood in the world in the hands of a mediocre maker that you would get a good instrument,"

I found this on CNN's site - it isn't specific to guitars but I thought it was interesting. There has been so much talk about tone and how much the wood is actually responsible for it that I thought some of you might be interested in this article.

[Guitarfrenzy]

Thanks for the link. Very interesting to read, even though I don't play violin. I think that electric guitars tone aren't affected as much by the wood properties as an acousic would be though.

[funkle]

Thanks for the link.

That makes a lot of sense. I think they're probably right about it being a combination of things. A couple other factors they didn't mention; old instruments may sound better because they have been played so much, the vibrations do something to improve the sound. There's also a psychological aspect I think. If you believe something is incredible, it probably will be.

Ed Roman has a post about old wood

-Sven

[bowser]

haha, at the end after talking about his "Timeless Timbers", he says,

"I STAND CORRECTED

I have now built about 10 Timeless Timber guitars and I am no longer impressed"

[Snork]

thats great! kinda defeated teh purpose of the seection lol