Modern Wood

[Roxbororob]

Regarding sound:

This video is interesting and quite well done. Identifying tone A as Ash and tone B as Acrylic kind of screws up the blindness...
The only thing important to establish in the video is: "Are the two tones alike or are they different?" The polling should have been done differently.
I found myself hearing a difference but thinking OK Im convinced there will be a difference so my brain is forcing me to hear a difference.

So I did something different, I imported MP3 of tone A and of tone B and ran a graphic analysis to see if a difference would present itself visually (OK MP3 is not the best but both tones are the same resolution so...) so what do you think?

Note:One image shows A & B together and includes all three strums including the following sustain and decay. The others are close up of strum 3.

 

[AngelCrusher]

The sustain in the wood was noticeably better to me.

 

[Roxbororob]

Sorry OP, I think some of the basses shown this thread are beautiful. Im with you in that some of the more knotted or burled ones are less appealing. That hollow body in post 47 is my favorite.

Edit: Beauty is in the eye of the bolder eh? no right and no wrong.

 

[DwaynieAD]

Sorry OP, I think some of the basses shown this thread are beautiful. Im with you in that some of the more knotted or burled ones are less appealing. That hollow body in post 47 is my favorite.

Edit: Beauty is in the eye of the bolder eh? no right and no wrong.

Op said he likes most of the ones in this thread

 

[Roxbororob]

Op said he likes most of the ones in this thread

Im messing up this thread

 

[Catbuster]

The simple answer as to why the wood looks like it does is that the places these woods are logged out of are out of old growth timber and into second and tertiary growth.

 

[Robroy]

The simple answer as to why the wood looks like it does is that the places these woods are logged out of are out of old growth timber and into second and tertiary growth.

I own 32 acres, about 75% wooded. There is Hickory, Oak, Walnut, Maple, and a few soft woods. The "big trees" (over 18") were logged a couple of years ago. We still have a LOT of really cool wood on the ground because there was some sort of damage due to insects, etc. I've wondered about cutting up some of it for some guitar/bass bodies. It looks like it could be really cool. There are some AMAZING grains in that stuff. But I just don't have the time...

Some of the most interesting wood for guitars, coffee tables, etc. is from big tumors in our trees.