guitar body wood

[sniper]

i ran across an interesting photo of a new Gibson robot body. it definately looks like a ply body to me after looking at the control cavity laminations. can someone elaborate?

[Freuds_Cat]

Could it be the router bit making those lines?

[sniper]

Could it be the router bit making those lines?

thats foods for thought. i was wondering how widespread is using plywood with veneers in the guitar industry.

[dadagoboi]

Could it be the router bit making those lines?

Highly unlikely.  Pretty sure that's plywood.

[Freuds_Cat]

Yeah, I'm not convinced either, just offering a possible alternative. I have an Epi EB that IS plywood.

[exiledarchangel]

Is that an EB0 that you added a bridge pickup?

[Freuds_Cat]

Give the man a cigar 

[nofi]

compressed cardboard, the new tone 'wood'.

[dadagoboi]

compressed cardboard, the new tone 'wood'.

Not so new.  DANELECTRO

[Basvarken]

Ah what the heck. People don't buy a Robot Guitar for the tone. 

[Freuds_Cat]

Thats true re Danelectro but I was surprised to see an Epi made from Ply. Even more so a Gibson, if thats what the Robot is made from.

[Freuds_Cat]

Robs next project is going to be a ply Hobbit!   

[Dave W]

I've seen marks like that from industrial cutters. It doesn't look like plywood at all. You can't see alternating veneer layers like you can on the Epi.

Gibson's specs are solid mahogany on the SG Robot and mahogany body, maple top on the LP Robot. That's pretty clear to me.

Epi used plywood for many years, they didn't advertise it but it was no secret.

[dadagoboi]

on reexamination, I think you're right, Dave.  They must use a smoother bit to do the cover route and finish the shallower cavity, is that for a battery?

[Pilgrim]

I'm not convinced that a good, solid laminate is a drawback in a solid body.  My Lotus fretless is a laminate and it sounds great.  Gibson's color-laminate SG-series uses layers as well.

I haven't done side-by-side tests of basses with different body woods with identical electronics and strings, which is what it would take for me to be convinced.  My current belief is that if wood makes a difference (not saying it doesn't, but also not saying that if there's a difference, that it is a drawback), electronics and strings make a lot MORE difference.