Lungimsam Posted January 15, 2011 Posted January 15, 2011 Just wundrin if it means it's a lower quality axe. Sound affected or not by having 2 pieces?
Golem Posted January 17, 2011 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. `
Lungimsam Posted January 17, 2011 Author 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.
Gaolee Posted January 19, 2011 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.
Gaolee Posted January 24, 2011 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.
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