Lungimsam Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 Just wundrin if it means it's a lower quality axe. Sound affected or not by having 2 pieces? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Versatile Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 It depends...... V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golem Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 Just wundrin if it means it's a lower quality axe. Sound affected or not by having 2 pieces? It's extremely normal, if you mean 2 pieces, left and right, with a center seam. Extremely expensive basses often are split left and right, and if the back side is a different wood from the front, it could be 4 pieces. Has it occured to you that a neck-thru ax has seperate left and right halves glued to the center beam ? There's nothing superior about a 1 piece body except for appearance, if the grain is enhanced .... but book matched halves are also great looking. ` Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lungimsam Posted January 17, 2011 Author Share Posted January 17, 2011 Yeah, I hadn't thought about those neck thru basses. They say Gibson is going to start using two pieces on standard model guitars, and I didn't know if that would affect sustain or tone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaolee Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 Done right, and I assume Gibson will do it right, it shouldn't have any effect. Done wrong, well... Another thing to think about is the top veneer over a guitar's body. It is another piece of wood, even though it is a thin piece of wood. The number of pieces doesn't bother me a bit, personally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrNylon Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Two pieces or more is not that uncommon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaolee Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 I have seen a photo of MIM Fender bodies before final machining and finishing, and they looked like a glued up stack of 2x4s. I can't really tell the difference by listening to one, so it doesn't matter, at least not to me. They might even be half Bondo for all I know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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