"Tone" "Wood"

[Old Blastard]

OK. So, then. All I have to do is tap on my wood until the tone spews forth?

 

[D M C]

Immoderate tone, coupled with imprudent volume and gain = Quaker.

Tread carefully lest thy habits become indelicate.

 

[BuffaloBass]

Dude messed me up and now I am digging on my "basswood" bass. So warm, rich and sustainey. Am I a glue sniffer now? Not wanting to wear 1.5lbs more of swamp ash for less sustain!?

 

[D M C]

Dude messed me up and now I am digging on my "basswood" bass. So warm, rich and sustainey. Am I a glue sniffer now? Not wanting to wear 1.5lbs more of swamp ash for less sustain!?

Well, it is called "basswood" after all. That ought to be enough for anyone.

 

[J_Bass]

You will never find true tone as long as you keep contaminating yourself with all that junk no-tone food. And the no-tone grease that comes out of you body detones the tone wood and it can never be toned again.

Free yourself and only eat tone food, or else.

 

[J_Bass]

 

[Josh Kneisel]

Here's a project I've been working on for a while. As you can see, there are a number of different woods: yellow, brown, and orange. That should give it a wide range of tones, I think.

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If there are any professional luthiers reading this, I would really appreciate a full scientific analysis of the tone that I can expect. When I tap test it, it comes out a lot like the kitchen table. That can't be right, I guess there is some knack to tap testing, like whistling through your fingers or playing the trumpet. I'm afraid I will never amount to anything as a luthier if I can't even divine the sonic characteristics of material by rapping it with my finger.

To think that Leo Fender pulled a piece of alder out of a cord of wood, tapped it, and thus began everything ... I stand in awe.

As long as you make sure the bridge assembly is as ridiculously hard to adjust as possible I think your tone woods should tone real good

 

[hondo4life]

Despite what the followers of Jatowba would have everyone believe, wood is not the only source of tone.
Tone comes from many things, such as balls.
If you put balls between your legs, you will posses the tone of the balls in your gut.

 

[Josh Kneisel]

Sam Ash is already biased toward one kind of tone wood so test elsewhere.

Can't trust "Big Ash" they only want to push their pro ash agenda

 

[Josh Kneisel]

I want to become an ordained member of the order of Jatoba and spread the word of his Purpleheart! We need a TB group for sure.

 

[D M C]

Tonewood Brewing

 

[alder]

Despite what the followers of Jatowba would have everyone believe, wood is not the only source of tone.
Tone comes from many things, such as balls.
If you put balls between your legs, you will posses the tone of the balls in your gut.

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"Gut Tone" is not the same as the true Luthier Tone of Jatoba. Yet, hath Jatoba interest therein. In current times, Jatoba spendeth to much time behind a desk, and hath developed a "middle age spread", for which Geddilee maketh sport of Him. ( How Geddilee stayeth so trim, Jatoba cannot ken. Life is not fair sometimes. ) Perhaps this "Gut Tone" is what Jatoba needeth. Where can He sign up and go maybe once or twice a month?

 

[farshore]

Well, have people forgotten about Tone Lōc, and his "Funky Cold Medina"?

 

[alder]

OK. So, then. All I have to do is tap on my wood until the tone spews forth?

Whenever testing a guitar, take the strings off first, otherwise they will corrupt the tone. Many a guitar has been played with strings on and judged to sound fine, when in fact it was made out of the totally wrong wood, and therefore sounded awful. Only the most highly trained ears can make such distinctions.

Many guitar companies have secondary lines of less-toneful guitars for the sole purpose of taking advantage of those who lack the training and experience to hear how awful these guitars really sound. Fender has Squier, Gibson has Epiphone, Rickenbacker has Rickenbacker, etc. The very sight of these instruments will send any good luthier running for the door to escape the tinny screech that they know will follow.

 

[Old Blastard]

So one should only tap wood with no strings attached. Odd, but that's what my girlfriend said.

 

[alder]

So one should only tap wood with no strings attached. Odd, but that's what my girlfriend said.

The tone of Jatoba transcends all.

It surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds the galaxy together.

 

[alder]

This thread wanders from its true course. The tone of Jatoba is the tone of WOOD, used by LUTHIERS in LUTHIERY. While lentils and salmon and breakfast cereals may indeed have their own tone, none of these materials may be constructed into a guitar. At best, you might make a drum kit from coconuts and pizza boxes, but tone is about musical instruments.

In the Kingdom of Tone, Jatoba has experimented with many non-woody materials, with little success. For example, when Jatoba inquired about the results of His hemp guitar, tester Jerry Garcia replied that he couldn't find it, but would like to get another one please for more testing. Jatoba encountered similar problems with the fried chicken guitar and Elvis, and many others, before finally coming to the conclusion that non-woody materials were simply not suitable for LUTHIERY.

Whether or not peanuts can be compressed into guitar bodies is really outside the scope of this discussion.

 

[D M C]

Something must be said for the schism created by Martin Luthier (somewhere in Nazareth, PA, if I recall correctly,) but I haven't the patience.

 

[micguy]

Unless you're playing a fretless, the strings don't actually contact any wood. Shouldn't we be talking about tone metal?

 

[alder]

Unless you're playing a fretless, the strings don't actually contact any wood. Shouldn't we be talking about tone metal?

At best, the "frets" merely conduct the tone of the underlying wood. All guitar tone derives from "tone wood", other materials have no effect. This has all been fully explained in the lore. The metal bits are decoration added by the marketing department to increase sales. Oooh, shiny! Jatoba frowns on this, but business is business.