Rockin Ronnie

He did it in the easiest way possible and to prove that no matter what the wood species was, wood contributed nothing to the sound or sustain or the length of sustain. It was miniscule. I am done with this website. All you that truly believe wood has tone and is picked up by the pickups, I have no more words for you. Have fun playing, I know I will! Bye!

Watch this video and tell me tone wood makes a difference. It goes thru sustain first and then tone wood so watch the whole video. The only sounds that come out of his amp are the sounds of the strings and pickups.

Hear is some good reading for the skeptics. https://spinditty.com/instruments-gear/The-Great-Electric-Guitar-Tonewood-Debate-Solved https://forum.bareknucklepickups.co.uk/index.php?topic=29361.0 https://www.jazzguitar.be/forum/builders-bench/35592-electric-guitar-wood-myth-busted.html just a few professional scientific findings on the tonewood myth. It is impossible for a pickup to amplify wood vibrations I don't care how you feel about it. It can't happen! Wait, maybe if you had wooden strings it would pick them up! Not! Sorry but when you get to heaven, God will tell you. Trees don't make music, only the strings!

Pickups only pick up the oscillating frequency of the string oscillation. Wood does not have a frequency at all. Therefore it cannot be amplified. No way scientifically the wood can be part of the sound on an electric guitar. No way I will ever be convinced that wood plays any part of the sound. If I make some sound clips from all 17 guitars I have, can you tell me which type of wood they are made of? Or what brand they are, pickups they have, single coil or humbucker or P90? What neck material they have? Maple or rosewood or ebony? What gauge the strings are and who made them? Of course not! So back in the day when I first started on the guitar, you had no after market anything to upgrade a guitar. You got what you got and if you wanted to change the tone, you adjusted the amp or the knobs on the guitar. Just play it and don't worry what it is made of. Watch the video of Justin Johnson playing the 1 string shovel guitar he made to prove this anomaly. The only thing the pickup reproduces is the string between the nut or fret and the bridge. That part of the string only. Not the wood!

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.