what wood i have to choose?

**milky** · 12th November 2009, 01:52 AM

hey guys! i'm a new member here! i'm planing to order a custom guitar for nice sound [plenty mids (40%) and nice high-bassy end (30%-30%)] for my studio album that i'm trying somehow to do! so ihave to know the woods i have to choose....i saw the ESP woods sound character but i'm not sure if that is truth.....i mean about the right tonality
so i don't care about the total weight or how it looks like...
some friends of mine they told me: 'the heavy wood gives you heavy tone' - or 'only the expensive's one provide a good sound character' , 'choose exotic wood for a nicer clinex sound'' and plaplapla

but is this truth? the expensive woods are good? or they weight must be heavy?
please tell me your opinions!

thank you!

**deni** · 12th November 2009, 03:58 AM

Macassar ebony or rosewood,

**milky** · 12th November 2009, 04:07 AM

Originally Posted by deni

Macassar ebony or rosewood,

for a body

?????

**deni** · 12th November 2009, 04:29 AM

if the weight is does not matter for you, why not,
or you can make chembered body to make it lighter,
rosewood solid body weight ( tele ) 3,80kg
macassar ebony solid 5,40kg, or you can use them as a top and back body on lighter wood core likes mahogany etc...

**milky** · 12th November 2009, 04:34 AM

Originally Posted by deni

if the weight is does not matter for you, why not,
or you can make chembered body to make it lighter,
rosewood solid body weight ( tele ) 3,80kg
macassar ebony solid 5,40kg, or you can use them as a top and back body on lighter wood core likes mahogany etc...

hmmm

that looks nice!
yeah mahogany it's good for the back! it's also light and dark...
thank you! i'll take a farther stereo look

**R3R** · 12th November 2009, 10:10 AM

Originally Posted by deni

if the weight is does not matter for you, why not,
or you can make chembered body to make it lighter,
rosewood solid body weight ( tele ) 3,80kg
macassar ebony solid 5,40kg, or you can use them as a top and back body on lighter wood core likes mahogany etc...

tht is an out n out total beauty Deni!

**dadovfor** · 12th November 2009, 01:42 PM

There's a tiger hiding in that wood.

**littlephil** · 13th November 2009, 08:17 PM

Heavy wood doesnt necessarily mean heavy tone. Purpleheart is heavy, but its dense and has a high silica content, so its quite bright.
High density usually adds low/mids
High silica add to high frequencies
Open pores contribute to lower frequencies and vice versa for closed pore structure.

**oz tradie** · 14th November 2009, 12:44 AM

High silica content doesn't necessarily add high freq.
Blackwood kicks that theory, keeping in mind it has a more open pore structure and gives a great balanced structure.
Not everything follows the expected laws of 'tone'.

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