The Body has some rather unusual wood grain which made me wonder whether the body wood is not alder.
What are you guys thinking based on the pictures attached? Is that alder?
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thanks for your help . I am however looking forward to getting my question answered rather than seeking for scientific advicesal paradise wrote: ↑Sat Sep 09, 2023 1:52 pmOn an electric guitar with paint over the body, the sound, attack & feel is highly unlikely to be affected by the type of wood (assuming it’s a dense wood).
The wood certainly does make a difference. Whether some people can’t hear that difference is another discussion.sal paradise wrote: ↑Sat Sep 09, 2023 1:52 pmOn an electric guitar with paint over the body, the sound, attack & feel is highly unlikely to be affected by the type of wood (assuming it’s a dense wood).
Get a bode plot done on your particular pickups (including loading of the resonant frequency/Q by your particular electronics). Get bridge admittance measured. Get laser vibrometry done on your string vibration losses to the residual string. Get the resonant modal frequencies of the neck and associated nut/fret admittances measured. Get string-fret micro damping measured.PJazzmaster wrote: ↑Sat Sep 09, 2023 1:40 pmI have this lovely parts jaguar. For some reason this guitar has a totally different feel, sound and attack than any other Jaguar.
There are some duo sonic and musicmaster type bodies (possibly also mustangs but I can't remember those specifically mentioned) that were confirmed to be mahogany, and these models (jag and duosonic) are both short scale instruments, but that's a very loose connection and nothing that would convince me this specifically was built from a mahogany blank. Also, I think it goes back to a time probably 8-10 years before this guitar would date from, but there's some information about earlier pine bodies.ThePearDream wrote: ↑Sat Sep 09, 2023 3:08 pmIt wouldn't be unlike Fender to use some Mahogany blanks
It's difficult to tell from this picture alone but to me, while the color does have a bit more warmth to it than some raw alder, I think at this point exposed mahogany would have taken a darker shade, also the grain doesn't appear open enough to be mahogany (would really need a super high def close up to have any better guess on that). One thing that might be worth considering is that there does not appear to be much in the way of yellow stain showing (at least from the way the picture makes it appear) and a burst body should have (inconsistently) been yellow stained and dipped in fullerplast or (insert other coating name here) so with absence of yellow, was it because the wood didn't drink it up? Did it just fade? Was the body not intended to be a burst? Did someone know the blank needed to be finished differently and set it aside intentionally? Just leads to more mystery as often seems to be the case with anomalies (or things we label as anomalous).
I brought this up, because someone else had stated that Fender only kept Alder and Ash (and maple and rosewood) around, which was incorrect. I wasn't trying to call anyone out though, just wanting to clear up some bad information. Both models being short scales wasn't the connection I was making and didn't even figure in to my thinking.shigginpit wrote: ↑Sun Sep 10, 2023 12:08 pmThere are some duo sonic and musicmaster type bodies (possibly also mustangs but I can't remember those specifically mentioned) that were confirmed to be mahogany, and these models (jag and duosonic) are both short scale instruments, but that's a very loose connection and nothing that would convince me this specifically was built from a mahogany blank. Also, I think it goes back to a time probably 8-10 years before this guitar would date from, but there's some information about earlier pine bodies.ThePearDream wrote: ↑Sat Sep 09, 2023 3:08 pmIt wouldn't be unlike Fender to use some Mahogany blanks