Even when without figure as this board sapele has an amazing luster and takes a beautiful polish.
Body material solid wood or hardwood for electric guitars.
They have access to and use some very nice materials and yet from guitar to guitar i never know what the quality is going to be.
2 but i am not sure about the weight would they be lighter than the hardwood bodied guitars.
Figured sapele solid body guitar blank entandrophragma cylindricum the sapele tree is found in tropical west central africa.
These guitars are designed for the task and they perform well for such settings.
Starting with the best tone woods is essential to achieving the best quality sound look and feel.
Full and rich with fat low end nice cutting mids and good overall warmth and sustain.
The major features of guitars that are made from wood are the body which is the largest part of the guitar where the sound emanates from and the neck and fingerboard where the frets are located.
Solid body guitar building an electric guitar takes a great amount of time skill and effort.
Alder is generally considered to be one of the traditional stratocaster body woods.
For larger venues or higher volumes i d definitely go with either my 6120 am my 6120 n or perhaps a solid body.
Adding a solid.
3 what about sound quality.
Maple is also one of the most common ingredients of laminates used for semi hollow electric guitar bodies where it contributes tightness and clarity.
Silvertone danelectro kay ect rather than shelling out thousands less for guitars made of aaa grade woods that one would find on premier models such as gibson fender and.
Harvested in africa and central america mahogany is a fairly dense medium to heavy wood that yields a wide range of guitar body weights depending upon stock sources.
Seagull et al is a pretty strange company.
Some people used to say the hard wood gets aged through time making the sound of instruments richer.
Solid body with a bolt on neck this is where it started.
To build a good guitar you need good wood.
Our local dealer has carried them off and on for years.
Out of a dozen guitars he gets 5 or 6 will have some strange anomaly poor intonation bad neck angle dead sound.
The wood that goes into making a guitar whether it s an acoustic or electric is a very important thing to consider.