Re: Jazz tone

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On 6 sep 2007, at 20.40, Krispen Hartung wrote:

> Heck, all I need is a stick with strings and
> pickup on it. I could care less about the fancy wood, etc.
> Kris


I take it that you are really meaning "fancy talk" about wood?  
Because different wood definitely give different tone to a guitar, as  
true for solid bodies as for jazz boxes. I have some friends that  
build guitars as for a living and I have spent many hours hanging at  
these workshops, trying out all kind of guitars and getting told  
about different wood used in them. Too bad I was never as interested  
in wood as in tone, so I don't remember a everything ;-))  Well,  
swamp ash sounds good to me in solid bodies, that's a fact I  
memorized after finding that all solid bodies I picked out was built  
of it. Mahogany sounds good too, I think. Myself I once built a solid  
body guitar out of a piece of oak. It was horrible. No life in that  
tone, way too much sustain and treble that made it feed back whenever  
you played through an amp. It was too heavy as well. Oh well... guess  
mistakes are for learning ;-)

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