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Topic: Necks and Bodies |
Charley Paul
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California, USA
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Posted 17 Dec 2018 5:22 pm |
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Hi friends,
Can anybody tell me the differences in tone, structural stability, and opinions on whether they prefer:
1. Wood vs aluminum neck
2. Wood vs mics body
Thanks! |
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John Goux
From:
California, USA
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Posted 17 Dec 2018 7:44 pm
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There is so much variation between individual guitars, and guitar companies, that making general statements about neck and body sounds is difficult.
For instance, a Williams and a Shobud are both wood neck wood body, and sound nothing alike. There are so many other variables.
It would be good to hear from players who have tried lots of guitars from the same company.
Also, the builders themselves have the largest focus group, having built many of both wood or aluminum necks, and wood or mica bodies. By the same builder.
Their opinions would be very informative to hear.
John |
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Kevin Fix
From:
Michigan, USA
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Posted 17 Dec 2018 8:30 pm Tone of wood verses metal necks
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| I am a Sho Bud player and my Super Pro has metal necks. I also have owned Sho Buds with wood necks. To me, the difference in tone would be a nice mellow tone on the wood necks and a little brighter tone on the metal necks. This is playing them through a NV112 with the same settings. I notice with the metal necks i need to increase my Mids some, not much. |
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Jon Light
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 18 Dec 2018 3:16 am
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It really is a guitar-specific question.
After working on someone's Williams, I was impressed enough to order one for myself which I'm eagerly waiting for. The guitar was a lacquer body aluminum neck 12 string. It had 2 cents 'cabinet drop' which blew my mind. I've been accepting 7-12 cents as the nature of the beast, any beast.
In discussing the new build and cab drop with Bill Rudolph he (before I said anything about my readings) described his aluminum neck guitars as having around 2 cents drop and his wood neck guitars as having virtually zero. So there's a structural observation, specific to Williams. I don't know enough about guitar building techniques to know if that would be a universal characteristic.
He also said that his wood neck guitars had bigger low end, sonically. |
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Bob Hoffnar
From:
Austin, Tx
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Posted 18 Dec 2018 5:53 am
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When I was playing Rains steels I owned a wood neck lacquer D10 and a metal neck mica D10.
The lacquer steel was prettier
both steels sounded about the same.
The mica steel was maybe a little more focused.
I did a lot of recording with both of them and if the engineer didn’t see them they never noticed the difference.
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Jim Bob Sedgwick
From:
Clinton, Missouri USA
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Posted 18 Dec 2018 10:25 am
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Amen Bob. I own 2 Williams guitars, a D-10 with aluminum neck, and a S-10 with woodneck. There is less than 1 % difference. That being said, the wood neck stays in better tune outdoors since metal will expand faster than wood.
My 2 cents. |
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