I'm thinking of picking up an American Deluxe Strat. Does anyone have an opinion about the "normal" version vs. the ash body version? I'm thinking Maple not Rosewood for the fretboard. Thanks.
well both woods have a diffrent weight so they are both gonna sound diffrent from each other. Maple it a tighter grain so it will sound brighter then the lose grain rosewood.Sorry but i don't know the sound characteristics of ash
I believe ash is a heavy wood and should help the lows come out a bit more. I'm no expert on woods and their tones but I think the basic concept is the lighter the wood the brighter the tone. There may be some exceptions and I may be wrong all together but that is what I have gathered thus far.
According to the Janka scale of hardwoods, ash is harder than maple, generally speaking. Density must come into play here for a comparable volume of wood between the two woods. So, I'd have to say that ash would be brighter than maple.
Thanks. There's a guitar tonewood section to the Martin forum I might post to on this. The people there are amazing in terms of their knowledge of wood but mostly regarding acoustic guitars. The obvious answer is to try both in the real world but I was curious if anyone had made the direct comparison themselves. I don't have a local music store that would have both in stock.
Thanks for the kind words Zerks, that's actually a homemade guitar using Warmoth parts it's H S H the neck is a stacked pickup the bridge is a standard Humbucker it just has 2 different colors so it might look odd in the vid 2 of the pots are pull style so you can split the the coils Warmoth used to call that there VW body style I think it was kind of a takeoff of the Van Halen Ernie Ball model he used to play
Fender American Deluxe Strat vs. Deluxe Ash
Posted - 01/24/2009 : 03:34:15
