Tone is in the plywood

FINALLY -- a "does the tonewood matter" thread. MWGF has been waiting for this for the longest time!

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Real Toan is in the wood glue. If you want shitty toan, go ahead and use that Elmer's crap.

Only the finest imported wood glue from the Ardan Forrest will do.
 
OGG said:
Real Toan is in the wood glue. If you want shitty toan, go ahead and use that Elmer's crap.

Only the finest imported wood glue from the Ardan Forrest will do.
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Titebond if you want a giggable tone.
Gorilla Glue if you want the brootalz.
 
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jp_nyc said:
I think it’s funny how many people hate on plywood guitars when most high-end hollow and semihollow electrics are made of molded plywood.
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Yes and no. Made from laminated sheets of maple veneers yes. That's not the same as a piece of 'baltic birch' plywood you find at home depot, stack up to make a body from then rout it out as a guitar. That stuff is as much wood as chips glued together.

That being said, I've played some plywood guitars that were boat anchors but surprisingly good sounding. Not great, but good. Pickups change the voice of a guitar, the wood changes how it says it.
 
dougk said:
Yes and no. Made from laminated sheets of maple veneers yes. That's not the same as a piece of 'baltic birch' plywood you find at home depot, stack up to make a body from then rout it out as a guitar. That stuff is as much wood as chips glued together.

That being said, I've played some plywood guitars that were boat anchors but surprisingly good sounding. Not great, but good. Pickups change the voice of a guitar, the wood changes how it says it.
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That is the same with the skateboard decks. Those are 7 layers of solid hard rock maple, which I guess is technically plywood, but it really isn't what I would think of when I think of plywood. I guess building a 100 skate ramps, you get pretty familiar with plywood.
 
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Chad said:
I love these. But I was a hardcore skater in the 80s.
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80's. So yours could be out of a whale tail deck, eh? Kinda like used here. :grin:



Those prisma's are nice, but I would like to grab a couple old deck's from my local shop that have been replaced, and repurpose those into one. I don't beat up decks enough to have created my own, Dad cruiser that I am.
 
I've mentioned it in other threads, but I remember a thread on the tdpri forum where a guy posted some clips from his magic tonewood tele. People went ape shit over how great the clips sounded. People were begging him for his secret. All sorts of exotic woods were guessed as the identity of the top secret super tone wood. After stringing them along for a while, he posted pics of the actual guitar - a one foot square piece of MDF that he had bolted a neck and bridge on just to test pickups.
 
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