Check out this youtube video of a Fender Stratocaster made out of.....cardboard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Oo2H-W7d6A
Check out this youtube video of a Fender Stratocaster made out of.....cardboard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Oo2H-W7d6A
hey Doc this was posted about 3 weeks ago but it's a cool vid and concept
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I am not a big believer in the tonewood theory (one wood sounds better than the other), this proves my point. Probably 95% of a guitars tone comes from the pickups and the player, the rest is the strings hardware and electronics. This sounds like a strat, not a cardboard strat.
Originally Posted by wokkaboy
Ah rightio, I didn't know it had already been posted.
actually it was only 12 days ago, feels longer, December goes for far too long, had 11 posts
http://www.buildyourownguitar.com.au...ead.php?t=4628
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Ash tele with Baritone neck - neck pup wiring tweaks and play in
Serves myself right for not checking beforehand.
all good Doc, you probably weren't on the forum on the 4th December and missed it
Current Builds and status
scratch end grain pine tele - first clear coat on !
JBA-4 - assembled - final tweaks
Telemonster double scale tele - finish tobacco burst on body and sand neck
Completed builds
scratch oak.rose gum Jazzmaster - assembled needs setup
MK-2 Mosrite - assembled - play in
Ash tele with Baritone neck - neck pup wiring tweaks and play in
No worries mate.
The video clip was posted in another forum that I visit and I just had to check it out so I could hear it with my own ears cause I didn't think it was possible to build a guitar out of cardboard, I didn't expect it to sound like a Strat, but it does.
Hi Tony, solid argument there based on the cardboard guitar outcome however the level of sustain would differ based on wood density and you would have to wonder why Gibson can get so many different sounds out of the same pickup configurations across their various body shapes. For example anyone can pick a Les Paul with their eyes closed and same goes for SG yet they sound distinctly different. Likewise when compared to Explorer and Flying V where the latter has least amount of wood and therefore sounds much brighter if not brittle when compared back to the standard old LP. Most Strats have so much empty space underneath their pick guards and that may lend weight to your theory as the pickups are mostly floating and not attached to the timber. We can expand the topic to include semi hollow bodies where the amount of timber density would be reflected in the overall tone and sound. And finally, if we consider the carbon fibre Steinbergers they had a unique sound due mostly to their composite structure not just from the EMG's installed on top.
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