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11th October 2010, 09:38 PM #106SENIOR MEMBER
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I think the supplied picture is a good simplified explanation of how it works. Doesnt need to get more complicated than that.
For the non believers why not simply pull the pick guard and coils of a guitar and sit them under some suspended tensioned wires, with no wood in or near the pickups. It will work just fine.
For the believers, credit where credits due, solid wood in its natural form looks beautiful and shows the craftsmanship and eye of the builder
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11th October 2010, 09:40 PM #107Retired
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11th October 2010, 09:41 PM #108Retired
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Good quote.
For the believers, credit where credits due, solid wood in its natural form looks beautiful and shows the craftsmanship and eye of the builder[/QUOTE]
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11th October 2010, 10:43 PM #109
Thanks for the apology Bob.
Jim
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12th October 2010, 08:05 AM #110
yes Bob,i have spoken to many luthiers over the years,many phonecalls etc.I am well aware that there are numerous timbers suitable for musical instruments,aside from Qld Maple and Blackwood(as i said ,quote'Qld Maple and Tassie Blackwood are a good start' unquote) and yes,there are plenty of suitable species on the mainland. But it would seem you don't need tonewood to make a solid body electric guitar! We are not all clueless Bob
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12th October 2010, 09:37 AM #111Senior Member
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Tonewood is any timber to which the retailer has applied a minimum of 100% markup
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12th October 2010, 10:29 AM #112
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12th October 2010, 10:41 AM #113
Ha Jeff, maybe so or a little more than 100% in some cases, but lets not forget the recovery process
This is a harder part of the the question to answer. As you would have gatthered from the answers to your thread, trying to emulate the traditional woods for tone in a electric guitar will be open to much debate. As for sustain though I think your best bet is to try to match the traditional woods by weight. For a neck if you are trying to match a Maple Fender you could try some Blackwood on the heavier end of the scale or Aussie white ash (E.fraxinoides) if you want to match colour a bit closer (some may argue that to emulate a old fender neck you also need to put the same style truss rod in that compresses the neck) . For a Alder body or Mahogany you could look at Qld Maple on the heavier end of its scale or Qld silver ash would be closer in colour and weight to alder. You could try anything you can find that is well sawn,stable and around the 550Kg/m3 mark. Good luck with the build and try not to get too caught up in the debate about which is better or best.
Jim
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12th October 2010, 01:54 PM #114Senior Member
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G'Day Jeff, As Jim said below lets not forget the recovery process, to get good quality musical instrument wood these days is not easy, you have to pay lots of money for good logs, and you are lucky to recover 1 cubic meter in 3, then the wood has to be milled wait years for it to dry then resaw it into sets. I bet you are paying more than 100% markup for your food you eat by time it gets from the farmer to you.
And I bet you are paying more than 100% market for the cloths you are wearing.
Cheers, Bob
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12th October 2010, 04:11 PM #118Senior Member
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I actually meant !00% markup over what the same timber would retail for as furniture timber.
And I said retailer not cutter miller or resawer.
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Jeff,
There is a huge difference between timber I sell for musical instruments than timber I sell for furniture it all depends on the grade my customer requires.
In fact my highly figured Tasmanian blackwood that customers require for high end furniture, they pay the same price that I sell it to luthiers, I do not negotiate.
1 in a thousand blackwood trees are highly figured, my running costs of my business are high. Timber is going to get dearer not cheaper.
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12th October 2010, 05:30 PM #120
Firstly I have to correct what I said. "The sound the strings make is not picked up by the pickups" is correct as a magnetic pickup can not read sound waves but I have unintensionally been a bit misleading in my attempt to simplify things with my quote "All the pickup can read is the movement of the magnetic field that is induced into the string via the pickup magnet."
Before I go trying to assume what you know Peter and try to answer your question,that is if you are referring to me as a "pickup guru" and want me answer, I have to ask if you know how a pickup works in regards to Faraday's law?
Jim
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