"Tone" "Wood"

[Dug2]

Please do NOT share pictures of you tapping out your wood.

for real yo

 

[D M C]

Only through the Purpleheart of Jatoba are we saved.

 

[Ant Illington]

Those things are called pickups, and it is well known that pickups have nothing to do with tone, it's all in the wood. My guess is that when the switch is forward, you are getting more maple ( from the neck ) and when it is back, you get less maple. That's the only scientific explanation I can come up with.

The effect is most pronounced when the guitar is plugged in, but my sensitive ears can hear the effect of the switch even when it is not ( plugged in. ) Everyone knows that the true tone of a guitar only comes out when it is not plugged in. Amplification of the electronic metal parts debases the pure tone of the wood.

This wood has also been strangled with grain filler and polyurethane. All the resonance of the pores has been clogged up for the sake of a smooth shiny finish. Sometimes, I like to imagine being very tiny and sitting inside the enormous unfilled, unclogged, practically unfinished pores of a Les Paul Studio, totally surrounded by tone. Gibson is uncompromising in their pursuit of tone, and refuses to ruin the wood by applying an attractive finish. Gibson is a company that is steeped in luthier tradition - pickled in it, if you will. They charge a premium for toneful extras like a sh!tty finish, but it is worth it to the true artist. Rickenbacker is also pickled in tradition.

"...imagine myself sitting in a..... pore....surrounded by tone." This just keeps getting better! Thank you and others for all of this!

 

[alder]

Luthiers of true faith and tonal sensitivity should band together against the barbarian hordes who build guitars from plywood and Home Depot.

We will be ...

Jatoba's Witnesses !!!

Praise Jatoba

 

[Old Blastard]

Um, does anyone else giggle a little when someone says "truss rod?"

 

[LT131]

I prefer to have my local luthier install the tone. He taps out "Shave and a Haircut" with his second distal phalange. I just read recently they found a warehouse full of boxes and boxes of unused vintage tone. They already had one guy get tone poisoning from being exposed to so much of it.

You and your luthier must be very close. Nobody's touching my wood with any phalanges. I don't care which one it is!

Vintage tone is overated and overpriced!

 

[Leiria]

Luthiers of true faith and tonal sensitivity should band together against the barbarian hordes who build guitars from plywood and Home Depot.

We will be ...

Jatoba's Witnesses !!!

Praise Jatoba

Can I get a member number to Jatoba's Witnesses and go from TB Club to TB Club spreading his word and getting new members?

 

[hondo4life]

Luthiers of true faith and tonal sensitivity should band together against the barbarian hordes who build guitars from plywood and Home Depot.

We will be ...

Jatoba's Witnesses !!!

Praise Jatoba

Us Hondo players kek in your genital directions. Our plywood is strong - stronger and more directionally stable than your "tone" "wood" of questionable origins. We do not evict innocent creatures of the rainforest to make our plywood. We just eat them. It is the circle of life, and the wheel of fortune, etc.

 

[alder]

Us Hondo players kek in your genital directions. Our plywood is strong - stronger and more directionally stable than your "tone" "wood" of questionable origins. We do not evict innocent creatures of the rainforest to make our plywood. We just eat them. It is the circle of life, and the wheel of fortune, etc.

Oh, ye of little faith ! Jatoba's Witnesses, keepers of the sacred tone, has only just been founded, and already we must persecute the non-believers. Your plywood may be strong, but it shall yield under our endlessly repeated tone wood sermons. Tone wood esoterica is tightly woven into the very core of luthiery, and cannot be denied or shut up!

Begin the inquisition !!!

Praise Jatoba

 

[alder]

Can I get a member number to Jatoba's Witnesses and go from TB Club to TB Club spreading his word and getting new members?

You shall be apostle #1. Your JW name shall be Cocobolo. Go forth and spread the word Brother.

 

[D M C]

shut up!

Amen and amen! Padauk be praised!

 

[alder]

I apologize, I have been away too long. I have been on a quest for tone with Jatoba. He has led me to a buried swamp ash body blank on which he has inscribed his teachings. I shall reveal them anon. Here is the first:

"Tone is created by Jatoba and Jatoba alone. Jatoba is generous and shares his tone with men through his divine trees. But the creation of tone He reserves to Himself. The hand of man cannot create tone, only remove it. This is why tone knobs only go backwards."

 

[hondo4life]

I do not believe your story, alder. I have never seen this Jatoba that you speak of. I know only of Pine. My land is of Pine, my house is of Pine, my Hondo is of Pine, my bath tissue is of Pine, and the written words are written on Pine.

 

[D M C]

I do not believe your story, alder. I have never seen this Jatoba that you speak of. I know only of Pine. My land is of Pine, my house is of Pine, my Hondo is of Pine, my bath tissue is of Pine, and the written words are written on Pine.

Blasphemer!

 

[alder]

I do not believe your story, alder. I have never seen this Jatoba that you speak of. I know only of Pine. My land is of Pine, my house is of Pine, my Hondo is of Pine, my bath tissue is of Pine, and the written words are written on Pine.

Jatoba created pine, and placed his tone there-in. Jatoba forgives you for your skepticism. Jatoba's gig is that He gives no proof of what He does. Tone must be taken on faith.

( BTW, have you tapped on your walls, or dropped your Hondo? I still have a passing interest in that. )

 

[D M C]

Naw son. Jatoba ain't cool wit pine.

Ahem, so sorry.

Pine fell from the favor of Jatoba and was sent thither. Pine set temptations before the son of Jatoba for to show his power, but the son of Jatoba rebuked him saying, "Get thee behind me!", attached a handle and drilled some holes into his "soft" "wood" (not "tone" "wood") body (so as to displace more air,) and wailed the tar out of blasphemer such as yourself.

The word of tone for the people of tone. Thanks be to tone.

 

[alder]

But behold !!! Pine finds favor in the Halls of StewMac:

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The monks of StewMac and their great leader Erlewine are amongst the truest followers of Jatoba.

Do the Jatoba's Witnesses face a schism? Should we call a conclave? Or just start burning heretics?

 

[placemat]

I apologize, I have been away too long. I have been on a quest for tone with Jatoba. He has led me to a buried swamp ash body blank on which he has inscribed his teachings. I shall reveal them anon. Here is the first:

Tone is created by Jatoba and Jatoba alone. Jatoba is generous and shares his tone with men through his divine trees. But the creation of tone he reserves to himself. The hand of man cannot create tone, only remove it. This is why tone knobs only go backwards.

Could you post a photo of that body blank so that all followers of Jatoba can have his true word for themselves?

 

[alder]

Could you post a photo of that body blank so that all followers of Jatoba can have his true word for themselves?

Uhhh ....

I lost it.

But I remember what it said, and I shall reveal the true word of Jatoba here on this forum in due time.

 

[alder]

From the Swamp Ash:

"Jatoba is kind and benevolent, but his cousin Geddilee is evil and black as night. Jatoba's gifts of tone are free for all to enjoy without practicing. Geddilee, on the other hand, created YYZ, that ye shall all despair."

Geddilee causes us to waste hours and hours, and we're still not getting any better. While Jatoba rules over the Kingdom of Tone, Geddilee rules over the underworld, also known as Canada, with the demons Zivojinovich and Peart at his side.