How To | Types of Wood for Guitar Necks & Bodies | Fender

[@paldenno1]

The string vibrates, causing sound waves to bounce back and forth in the speed of sound, between the string and the material surrounding the string. These sound waves influence how the string vibrate. It is the way that the string vibrates that decides how it sounds. The pickups pick up the vibrations from the string (the string creates an electro-magnetic flux field). What happens in the pickups is that the coil starts to vibrate (the energy from the string is transferred to the pickups) identical to how the string vibrates (only in another form of medium, but the energy is interchangeable and identical). The energy from the pickup goes through an amplifier and speaker where the energy is transformed to yet another medium. So the wood has everything to do with the sound that comes out of the speaker. It is practically impossible not to have the wood, or whatever material the guitar is made of, influence the electric sound of the guitar. If you have soft material, the energy of the string will be absorbed more. If you have dense material, less energy will be absorbed by the body/neck wood. When you feel the guitar body vibrate, then obviously that is energy. And that energy is taken from the vibrating string. Is it possible that that doesen´t influence the energy of the string? No. Energy is constant and if energy enters the body then energy must be removed from the vibrating string. We know that pickups replicates the vibrations of the string, so it is very clear that the material of the guitar affects both the acoustic sound of an electric guitar and the electric sound. Everyone who has tried a lot of guitars know this. Especially if they have tried to change neck/bodies in the same guitar and have experienced the difference that it makes. Serious guitarist appreciate well thought out guitars in regards to tone woods, but I guess those who want to believe their cheap guitars is just as good, just don´t want to accept this established fact. (Of course cheaper guitar can and sometime does sound and play great).

[@moreanimalspirits]

That is the resonance arguement. DKGcustom's video shows that resonance makes no difference - although he does not have a picking machine.

[@paldenno1]

Nicholas Wiseguy Could you point out the contradictions?

[@nicholaswiseguy2906]

I apologize I shouldn't of worded it that way, I respect your opinion and I see what your trying to say but there are a couple contradictions no big deal.

[@paldenno1]

Nicholas Wiseguy Ok. It is a fairly complicated issue and in the end, a fair deal of subjective judgements when it comes to the end results.

[@nicholaswiseguy2906]

You are definitely right about that, that seems to be what most people forget.

[@Dude_Slick]

Tonewood is for acoustics. I build from higher end wood purely for look and feel. I will say that at the very most it effects sustain. But tone? Not that I can tell.

[@5701111659]

I agree, a lot of tests clearat give it is so less importens, its an electrcal instrument not a an acoustic Electronics is much more important than wood

[@profile2047]

I like the two very different things people say: Tone is all in the fingers. And wood makes a huge effect on tone (the guy in the video said huge effect). I’m not arguing for or against. I just find it funny.

[@NathanChisholm041]

I only buy guitar wood from a hermit that lives on a remote mountain peak that harvests the wood using pixies and elves for the best tone personally!

[@colinmcgrath6877]

Hey don't mess up my appointment! I have every other odd numbered 3rd Friday in the month.

[@Dmtusic96]

Honestly, I don't care if the wood of the guitar affects its tone. That's some fine looking wood. You should be proud of the way your guitar looks and it's reassuring to know that your's consists of quality parts. Cheers.

[@moreanimalspirits]

If wood makes no difference, we could make cheaper guitars and save more trees. That's why people care.

[@RigoesAmorrigotovar]

+moreanimalspirits trees? Lol

[@cuscoothriyas5163]

Well it's possible to make guitars out of inorganic materials so, yea. Save trees. Just don't quite sound the same

[@davey1272250]

The weight of the player also affects the tone, I put on 5 kg over Christmas, and also be careful about too much sun, that's gonna burn your skin and the guitar will feel different.

[@MusicMan642]

Oh no the comments section on this video is going to be an absolute horror show! It's like an argument about aliens or the yeti some people say yes and some say no.

[@nicholassansouci2840]

Some are correct and some are blind fools as well (;

[@sebastianochoa8639]

@@nicholassansouci2840 the ones that you describe as “blind fools” thinks that the ones that thinks like you are the “blind fools” Who’s the blind fools then?

[@jamessouleyrette3370]

I don't believe the wood makes a difference in the tone, but I do believe it makes a difference in your sound because of how the different woods feel and you'll play differently accordingly. But I would maybe pay more attention to the idea of how wood would affect tone, if there was something explaining how the wood actively affects the tone, seperate from all of the different variables that affect it.

[@nicholassansouci2840]

Tone is the "sound" ... The different "sounds" of the guitar are the tone

[@joeferris5086]

Theres another video where they hit the alder and ash bodies with a mallet and you can clearly hear how they have resonance frequencies that are quite different from one another. I was pretty surprised at the difference between the two.

[@5701111659]

@@joeferris5086you are mixing things here, resonance does not go Inte a electromagnetic mice, only the metal string in the magnetic field

[@RayPal1111]

THANK GOD FOR SUB TITLES!!! Definitely wouldn't want my wife hearing me listening to how to make guitar necks!!

[@mhdz10]

For those of you that have questions or doubts about this, it’s very simple: Density, coefficient of vibration absorption, wood stability across the environmental changes (humidity, temperature) are elements that play into the equation of tone creation. Very simple. Other SUPER important element almost never mentioned: strings; depending on its design, material, wounding pattern and size, it also affects the sound. It’s more important the neck material than body. Most of the sound projected from strings and captured by pickups come from neck. The body helps stabilize and maintain the vibration, but the accents themselves are created by the reflections of string vibrations against neck. So the neck itself is one of the most important pieces of a solid body electric guitar in the process of sound creation. The best material engineering research is focused on the neck. Fender knows it. That is why the focus on removable necks. Gibson has a different approach on creating the sound: they couple neck and body top. (Les Pauls specifically). The set neck works as it should only if wood grain is chosen and glued correctly. So yeah, basically Gibson sells expensive instruments built mostly inefficiently in name of tradition, and super expensive ones when they do curate materials and glue them correctly with effective grain pattern.

[@lizwindsor9250]

Yes it it very simple. You can run a string between a bridge attached to a solid concrete brick and a nut attached to a separate concrete brick, put a magnetic pickup beneath the string, and the output from the pickup will be exactly the same as it would be if the bridge and nut were both secured to a single piece of mahogany/maple/rosewood.

[@5701111659]

@@lizwindsor9250exactly right Blind fold test proves it Of course if the nut an the bridge is instability the sound will be different and sustain as well

[@ricinro]

Everything affects tone. The degree to which everything affects tone is debated and rarely, if ever, measured other than some plots for pickups. So these issues are very subjective and debate (especially emotional disagreements) are unnecessary and unfortunate. Guitars convert mechanical energy into electrical energy and the "tone" or sound is typical what is left after parasitic mechanical and electrical components rob this of certain harmonics or adds very small harmonics generated by resonances in different material and the transmission of sound through different materials. Generally, if sustain is important you would want less parasitic losses outside the nut and bridge. This would lead you to consider something dense or with a very high young's modulus. Les Paul, when applying similar first principles, used a length of railroad track. Lowering atmospheric pressure would also help but breathing etc.

[@acoffeewithsatan]

I'd believe this if they had like 3 Teles or Strats, identical in every way except made with different woods in the body and neck, otherwise the "tele tone" has mostly to do with the way the bridge pickup works, being built in the metal bridge. The only non-bs thing here about neck woods is how they feel when played - maple feels a lot slippery for being finished (and tbh I prefer that feel) while on rosewood the strings don't slide as easy when doing bends and slides.

[@Left-Earth]

*"Finally, someone with an intelligible and truthful comment !"* 👍✨🏆🎸 _"The guitarist's pursuit of personal tone can be wrought with perilous lies and deceptive halftruths. Use any guitar you can afford. and learn to get the best sound from the equipment you have. All of our ability as a guitarist lies in our hands. A huge portion of tone comes from technique and the way you touch the strings."_ - *Left Earth* 2021

[@kaypolo]

I think the most fundamental idea is the MASS of the guitar. Look at the mass difference in a Les Paul (thick body) compared to an old Teisco Del Rey (thin body), a total difference tonally. The tone is a million things coupled together, it is not simple. I do believe there is SOME sound differences in different woods. The hands and fingers have one of the most crucial effects on tone.(size ,mass, shape etc.) The setup is so important also, and everything works together. I can make a single guitar sound totally different just by making simple adjustments. (like string height) It is best to keep the strings as high as you can stand in order for the strings to "sing",and sustain. Low action kills tone.

[@SalvvOrtiz]

In most guitars the pick ups don't touch the wood, they are attached to a piece of plastic, Gibsons or Fenders so the tone comes from the plastic.

[@RicArmstrong]

Thats true, however there's a big difference between hard body guitars and open body guitars.

[@SalvvOrtiz]

@@RicArmstrong Yes, open body guitars have more resonance almost like an acoustic, and if your pick ups are microphonic, that affects the sound even more.

[@peterhedrich7653]

on one of my six strats the pickups ( fender custom Texas special no handwound , with the half blender wiring 😄 )touch a chrome Pickguard ( Fender) the pickguard is on a two piece nitro laquerrd alder Stratocaster Body shieled with shield lack) with a standard Marple Neck 22 frets from 1989 (one time refretted ) ive expect a harsh bright tone and it has a warm and cool Sound 😁without a Amp and with my 68 ´reissue Princetone if you will test all possibilities and tones and sounds you must own Mount- Money or you can buy a stradievarie violin😁but i love the availible Fender MiM stock marple replacement Necks with the big headstock 7,25 radius and high gloss finish 21narrow tail frets -that is the best thing one can do with a marple Tree from this planet

[@alexflores6273]

Great video guys! Very informative, thanks :)

[@adamtsai1986]

Hello, I’d like to ask why strat always comes in Alder body with Rosewood or maple neck, why’s not ash body with rosewood fretboard??? Thanks!!

[@Avstarosa]

Cuando estaran estos videos disponibles en español?

[@gmaildad2087]

As a guitar player for 58 years and a electrical engineering for 45 years and studying the difference in wood on electric guitar the woods don't matter only the electronic that matters and strings and field of the pickup wood is not effective by the magnetic fields

[@egotripband]

what about vintage , modern and double acting Truss rods and how snug they are fitted into the neck ? that would affect the way a neck vibrates i would imagine .

[@primitiveT]

You said, "grain affects the sound." I have some really good and VERY swirly Nicaraguan wood I'm about to buy. It looks fantastic and it'll be so hard for a guitarist to not to buy it. So, what is the deal with the grain? This is Exotic Cocobolo. Straight from Nicaragua. Thanks.

[@djakkuukkajd2507]

Pickups and electronics make the most difference to sound, you can have the fancied piece of biomass in the world but it won't mean anything if it's got cheap crap nailed to it.

[@ilham7345]

Djakku UkkajD scale length my friend. Pick a Starcaster and ES with same wood same pickup and same hardware. The tone sounds different

[@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342]

So true. The sound of a electric guitar is by far mostly based on well... The electronic aspect of it lol. Duh. But to have good wood does help. Raises the value. Feels more comfy to play on. Lasts longer than some cheap shit of course. Looks great. And many can't hear why it's so great but trust me... It's there. Just not very present to the untrained ear but after hearing many instruments you start to notice a little. With a solid body I'd argue tone wood is like 5% important to your sound. Maybe closer to 10-15% with a semi holo or holo body.

[@valueofnothing2487]

@@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342 Why are you so rude? Are you trying to prove your point by getting the other person to feel bad, so they don't question your results?

[@HektorBandimar]

We can choose neck types, do we get a choice of body woods?

[@phoenixlandingstudio6594]

Don't let Scott Grove see this..... Lol

[@BigBoss1292]

Pickups, pickup type, pickup location, scale length, fret wire type, playing style and your choice of amp determine your sound...if you believe wood has an influence on the sound of a guitar (remember, pickups only pick up vibrations of metal strings) than you're not using your brain.

[@TheEchelon]

Ironic statement. The surrounding materials influence the way the strings vibrate. Think about using a rubber nut/bridge. Now let's go a step furher. Attach normal guitar hardware to a rubber body/neck. If you think that won't have an influence in how it absorb the vibrations then you don't have a brain. kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZorCpayLn9CenqM

[@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342]

I would say string type, set up, player, amp, and a few other things matter more than the wood type you have but it does help to have good wood. Always.

[@DoubleRR44]

The electronics (pickups) is the only thing that determines the sound and tone on an electric guitar. Acoustic wood matters

[@chrisstrobel3439]

Is it just me or does that rosewood neck look like it has a clearcoat over the finger board 🤔Never seen that before.

[@NamRock]

If you play through a distorted amp no difference. Play really clean and its there.

[@allghilliedup21]

Mindblown, these comments are. I'm seriously starting to wonder if wood DOES really affect the tone of any electric guitar or bass when it's plugged in and the pickups are hot. Kind of regretting ordering that maple jazz bass neck now...:P

[@nicholassansouci2840]

Only acoustically. After you plug it in, it's up to the pickups to deliver sound.

[@MrNocaster]

we heard you

[@kjross8697]

With all my experience with tone woods its got to the point now that even the colour of the guitar makes a difference. Light and darker colours I always hear a difference. For example a dark red guitar can have a very warming tone where as whites can have a very cleaner crisper tone!!!!!!!

[@matthewclarke1926]

Frequency response is a function of two properties: mass & stiffness. Wood, unlike steal, has a stiffness that depends on the direction of the grain. Also, the wood's density (or unit "mass") can vary within the single piece of wood that makes up the body/neck. Because of these complexities, the OP is correct in saying that you cannot make the generalization that a light guitar is better than a heavy one. But there is a way to measure the response of a guitar, and I don't understand why Fender hasn't done this. You can take a guitar part and measure its natural frequencies. These frequencies (including all the mode shapes) will indicate how well a particular piece of wood will respond to music. Fender could come up with a rating system so that all of their custom shop guitars get the choice pieces. Hit me up if you want some advice on how to do this.

[@matthewclarke1926]

I think it would be a good selling point for someone who is dropping 5k on a custom shop guitar; they could receive a report for their particular instrument showing how well the guitar responded to the test.

[@mercutio123100]

Now that I've stopped buying into this sort of talk about tone woods. It just sounds ridiculous when people talk about it.

[@hunterfagan6272]

mercutio123100 then you're clearly a noob. The pickups aren't the only thing that changes the tone. Look up a comparison of different woods.

[@majav15mg]

TupolevPilot the differences are negligible.

[@aa-hi4hg]

TupolevPilot Passive pickups pick up magnetic frequencies, they do not pick up sound. Yes, its true that woods effect acoustic tones but you're picking up a signal directly from the strings. The electronics matter way more.

[@hunterfagan6272]

a a that isnt completely true. The wood does have a big impact on your sustain

[@PoltergeistWorks]

sustain - absolutely! But what also (or eve more so) affects the sustain is the hardware, like the bridge, saddles, nut etc..Pickups that have a strong magnetic pull will make a note die out faster than active pickups for example.

[@gabrielhynek8863]

Make tutorial how to change from telecaster 3 way switch to 4 way switch

[@maxgrau9083]

I´m searching for "D-form", like early 50ties or 70ties ? maple neck ? bright kind of neck , please help my guys !

[@allansantoscaires8638]

Hello there! Doesn anyone knows if An american special strat could have an 4 piece wood body?

[@TheHumbuckerboy]

I own a Strat / Tele hybrid that has a swamp ash body and let me tell you it is very heavy !

[@AAHSPS]

What this has to do with the tone i just wanna know whats the advantages and disadvantages

[@5701111659]

A lots of BS, looks and feel is the importance

[@josephharper2599]

When he bumped all the necks I heard a different tone!😂

[@bassfishingwiththeantichri2921]

1:49 (Damn! I didn't just do that.)

[@epicgamerman4268]

I don’t can’t really tell the difference tone wise, but I don’t really enjoy the grainy feel. Like whenever I bend, I don’t want a rough, scratchy surface.

[@Lennard222]

Chack out the vide where someone sews of parts of the guitar body to see that the wood doesn't affect the tone at all.

[@jurajzembjak9721]

The guy with glasses reminds me of Paul Mccartney

[@andreasfetzer7559]

I thought, the tonewood debate was over.

[@williamsmyth5047]

Guitar tone is 100% from the wood, and the configuration of pickups. A two-pickup guitar has a bigger space between pickups than a three-pickup guitar, which gives more of an out-of-phase effect. Pickups are not electronic - just a very primitive generator made of magnet and coil. If you alter the magnet-to-coil ratio, by using more coil with a weaker magnet, you can get more high-end cutoff, similar to a tone control, but manufacturers play it safe, and go middle of the road. As has been demonstrated on KZbin numerous time, the effect of replacing pickups is zero. Amps and special effects are very important to the sound, but that's another topic.

[@jonahpaz.]

What about bamboo guitars?

[@Informed104]

Although this video is mostly hogwash, I do agree with the tenet that the wood plays a role in the sound qualities of the electric guitar. If not, I dare anyone to A-B a 70's strat, ash body, maple neck, with a chunk of 1030U cold-rolled steel. Pull the identical parts from tuners, nut, frets to pickups and bridge / inertia block onto the steel slab and prove to me that they would sound identical. Case closed...

[@nuggulux]

Never believe anyone who tells you that the wood doesn't make a difference once the guitar is plugged in. A Tele with a maple fingerboard sound noticeably different from one with a maple fingerboard, regardless of any video posted on KZbin.

[@CTChipmunk]

Huh?

[@nicholassansouci2840]

So videos that prove you wrong don't matter? Ok, I'll look into that.

[@CTChipmunk]

"A Tele with a maple fingerboard sound noticeably different from one with a maple fingerboard"... Does he mean rosewood vs maple? It's impossible really to do a scientific repeatable experiment because each experiment is going to be done w/different densities or species of maple and/or rosewood, different moisture levels in the wood, different grain patterns, different weights, etc. Same as for alder vs. ash... just too many other variables - such as the "same" pickups could have two extra windings, or the wiring or soldering is slightly different, pickup heights, string action height, saddle and bridge heights, nuts filed slightly different... even two packs of the "same exact" strings might be wound slightly different... Therefore, no 2 guitars are EVER going to sound exactly alike - regardless if it's a maple vs rosewood fingerboard. Even if all you do is switch necks... you can't have repeatable experiments because the maple necks will vary from one degree to the next, or the tuners aren't on exactly the same or drilled in exactly the same holes, or string trees in exactly the same place, or weight/density of the necks... maybe even small differences between the truss rods and skunk stripes... there are probably a hundred different variables involved in just swapping out the necks and leaving everything else the same. You just can't repeat it - even if the wood is from the same exact tree. This whole debate about tonal woods "once an electric guitar is plugged in" is totally irrelevant - because there are waaaaay too many OTHER variables involved IMHO.

[@OfficialRaddeck]

So you say what really matters are pickups? To hell with wood when it comes to a final sound?

[@nicholassansouci2840]

Woods are only cosmetic after you plug it in.

[@TiberiusWallace]

Basically.

[@oldmcfarlane]

I think wood matters on an acoustic. On electric, I think they are talking out their ass. If there is a difference in tone between woods, it would probably be the equivalent of turning your tone knob from 5 to 5.2.

[@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342]

@@nicholassansouci2840 That's factually false dude. Rose wood grains are bigger than maple wood grains. They factually feel different to the touch dude... Please stop spreading misinformation.

[@marcomuner3728]

sooo, is fender saying that necks and fretboards are the same thing?

[@taunoctua245]

Don't like rosewood fretboards. Otherwise, I like all the wood varieties.

[@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342]

Either way for me.

[@BrettEPierce]

How are these "professionals" saying "neck" when they're talking about the "fretboard"?? All standard Fender NECKS are made of maple.

[@droliver]

There’s really not much to support a lot of the mythology surrounding guitar woods. Any effect, if it exists, is more of a density/mass effect rather then the acoustic behavior of a certain species (like ash versus alder to use Fender woods).

[@nicholassansouci2840]

Woods only make a difference acoustically. Woods are only cosmetic after you plug in the guitar.

[@MrNocaster]

ok how about answering this question. if that is the case, and i'm sure you would agree that the manufacturing of guitars are more consistent than ever. how do no two guitars sound the same? here's the thing kid, not everybody has a mature ear. some people hear something and say yep sounds the same. with mature hearing and long years of playing, you can tell the difference. now to disprove all this, grab anything you want other than wood, or even small particles of wood. NO WOOD.. slap some strings o them ( they all sound the same too right ) and prove it

[@VictorVonBelmont]

Two electric guitars don't sound the same because of a lot of factors, and wood is not one of them or at least not important at all. There are tolerances in all the electronic parts and even the set up can make a big difference (try lowering or rising the height of your pick ups). If the wood type were so important for the sound of a guitar you would be able to identify the wood type of a guitarr just by its sound, just as you are able to distinguish single coils from humbuckers just by their sound. I'm sure you wouldn't be able to ientify wood types in a blind test, so don't come and argue that "not everybody has a mature ear" and all those "golden ears" bullshit. If wood could make a substantial difference it would be possible to measure that difference with a frequency analizer, but that's not the case. Tone wood in electric guitars is just like religion with people with not proof of gods that say "but I can feel it in my heart, so I know it's true".

[@DefenderB0SS]

U should let people hear the diffs, we only hear talk about "grain, bright, focus, direct

[@davidnika446]

The sound of a guitar, NOT accounting for the amplification setup, and skill/style of the player: 80% due to the pickups (their particular qualities, height setup & positioning) The other 20%: The strings (gauge, the type of winding, & material used), the pick used, and guitar setup (string height, intonation, bridge setup...etc)

[@TheEchelon]

The surrounding materials influence the way the strings vibrate. Think about using a rubber nut/bridge. Now let's go a step furher. Attach normal guitar hardware to a rubber body/neck. So the woods being used does have an influence, although much much smaller than say the pickups or the amp. You won't get a Les Paul tone if you simply slap gibson humbuckers in a strat. Anyways if you want more solid proof: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZorCpayLn9CenqM

[@davidnika446]

@@TheEchelon I do think the video is good, honest attempt to examine things. However, the frequency responses looked very close. To really measure things perfectly though, you would still have to set up the pickups extremely precisely between the different wood tests. Just a tiny difference in height setting could create differences. Also, picking the string EXACTLY the same is very hard. Even inaudible differences could show as differences on a spectograph. Even the same string won't always behave 100% the same. What I mean is, let's say you have a brand new string tuned perfectly (to any note). After a hour, you may have to tighten it. Even when retuned, you might see a difference on a spectograph.

[@MrAnders1976]

The ultra heavy ash bodies from the 70s are dead sounding to my ears with mid scooped vintage single coils.. no mids.. Just a hard tight bottom and high highs.. A scooped sound. Featherweight swamp ash bodies are less focused with a deeper thump but I think you can say the same with alder.. A heavier alder body will be more focused with a high mid spike and a really light alder will be warmer with more lower mids..

[@LordOfThisWorld74]

If you cannot hear the difference in woods, you are deaf as hell. lol

[@frederickathey9240]

"Fender Tech Talk" states that Fender did not choose Alder for its bodies based on any studies of its tone but based solely on the fact that's cheap and readily available. Who do you think you're kidding?

[@thomaspotts6666]

The first time I played a maple neck (Guitar Center) and made a bend I said "Wtf is this shit?" It felt so foreign

[@romeliapolly1212]

Hmmm... I finally followed Ann's advice and took Woodprix. It's great for beginners and has some advanced stuff too.

[@tman6495]

...more weight...more sustain?

[@puryeareaker7975]

I check a lot of woodworking handbooks. These one from Woodprix are the best.

[@areyouavinalaff]

the last 20 seconds pretty much negated most of the previous 4 minutes and 55.

[@joaokmo]

Some say that tonewood is a myth!

[@PaulTheSkeptic]

Uh oh, Scott Grove fanboy war.

[@jaydenbrumous2582]

Stodoys is a solid company with solid woodworking plans.

[@sav7152]

Tonewood=Does not exist in an electric guitar once plugged in. It has been proven. Search KZbin for DKG Tonewood. He does significant experiments proving this. Now acoustics are a different story.

[@misakul]

Funny.. DKG doesn't do anything. His proof is shit. He took the worstest squier strat from China and he said this is our tonewood strat for compare with my kitchen desk. Do you really think that this is the proof? :) If you and think, so make your guitars from shitty wood and sell them. Tell John Mayer that thay play as his custom shop strats :D

[@sav7152]

+Michal Beneš Thank you for your comment

[@jdogmoney4556]

+Michal Beneš worsest isnt a word you know this, right?

[@xJaGG3d]

look up rob chapman's video on it. enjoy that.

[@neteraser]

People are very ignorant. If you don't believe the wood affects the tone, why play Fender? Just play a cheap Chinese guitar with upgraded pickups.

[@inspiredbymuse2655]

Because the hardware has to be a a certain standard of quality. ^^ Chinese guitars tend to have crap hardware. I'm talking of bridge, tuners, frets, durability of the overall contraption..

[@nicholassansouci2840]

Cheap Chinese guitars don't have quality construction, but then again isn't fender just becoming "cheap Chinese guitars" anyways?

[@neteraser]

Nicholas Sansouci Maybe, but I think not yet. What do you think about American Deluxe series ?

[@moreanimalspirits]

If you buy a good fender like guitar from rondo, you are in around $400. Put in some good pick ups, and you are in Fender price territory. Also, you can only play what is in the stores, so the whole thing has risks.

[@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342]

@@inspiredbymuse2655 Well said. Also the best guitars tend to be made with the best woods available. The high end guys and custom shop guys get first dibs on wood selection for a reason. You're going to see more wood slabs with knots and rivets more on lower end guitars.

[@edwardcarrara1805]

"Tone woods" - hahaha; ALL Woods ARE Tone Woods.

[@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342]

Yeah and some have weak quiet tone and deteriorate much faster. So get the good shit lol.

[@ErikSWE]

What a bunch of BS. Put a standard Tele with a rosewood fretboard (NOT neck) and alder body against a standard ash tele with maple fretboard and they sound identical. It's all in the pickups and amp.

[@clayy000]

Um no, you can distinctly hear the differences if you are comparing them yourself, maple frets also has more of a pop to it that you can't get with rosewood, woods are all different which makes the guitar sound different

[@nicholassansouci2840]

Woods only matter acoustically. The tonal differences come from different pickups and pickup arrangements. Guitars with graphite necks don't sound any different than maple fingerboards nor rosewood after the guitar is plugged in.

[@DrewNZ]

Clayton Murray That's a common myth. If it were true you would get a different sounds between fretting on the actual wood of a neck or the harder fret inlay. Which does not produce different sounds. If it did we'd all be playing guitars with no inlays. Myth busted :)

[@clayy000]

DrewNZ idk I just hear a tonal difference between the two, maybe it's just me, and some other people, ha idk, to each his own I guess

[@DrewNZ]

Clayton Murray and it is about personal pref so you're right. To each his own.

[@connoisseurofcannabiscarsp3755]

I hate those AWFUL looking Biflex truss rod necks with those gaping holes..I vould NEVER own one..You say its better? I call bullshit because my 59,60,61 & 62s havent had to be adjusted in over 40 years...Im 43 and my dad only set them up a few times and we both travel all over the country playing gigs..no issues EVER!!

[@MrKenstar2]

I guarantee you cant tell half of what is talked about here

[@paulhaber13]

Swamp ash, punk ash

[@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342]

I got roasted swamp ash lol.

[@mymusicvideosx]

It's all too easy to sell expensive shit to guitarists who believe the WOODTONE LIE. Right, Fender?

[@larszepp]

confusng BS mainly!

[@Chilling4Shillings]

This has to be a joke video right ? guitar pickups are magnetic, wood is not a feromagnetic material, you could make a guitar entirely out of graphite, with the same pickups, pots, nut, bridge etc..the body material and neck material has no bearing on the sound of an amplified electric,

[@Zhaggysfaction]

Wood not being feromagnetic is completely irrelevant as to why wood would make a difference in the tone of amplified electric. No-one has ever said that is the case. Even if you made a guitar out of feromagnetic material it wouldn't be mainly because of that that the sound would be different. It would be because of how the body resonates with the strings and how it affects the strings' vibrations.

[@Chilling4Shillings]

wood is not a factor on electric guitars, acoustic guitars the wood matters but not on an electric, guitar companies want you to believe that it matters so they can sell you a more expensive piece of wood, you could make an electric guitar out of plywood and equip it with top notch electronics and hardware and have a great sounding instrument, Electric guitar tonewood is just snake oil

[@Zhaggysfaction]

SlowedAndChopped Also no-one sane has ever said that you cannot make a great sounding guitar out of non-wood materials. Make a guitar out of plywood, fine. Make it out of titanium, fine. If you like it you like it and that's what matters. They just sound different, not better or worse.

[@Chilling4Shillings]

yeah different hardware and pickup configurations sound different, the wood is still not a factor

[@LtFalcon]

You're making a statement, prove it. Make a guitar body out of graphite, another from alder, ash, and phlywood. Use the same hardware and necks, same tuning, same humidity, same amp. If then you can't see a difference in the frequenty range when you compare them, than you can come back and say it's a fact.