Production of wood electric guitar

The introduction of several wood guitar (acoustic guitar)


here to introduce the timber, is used around the world, some of the major guitar manufacturers of the wood. Including the commonly used Chinese guitar manufacturing of wood and other countries used the guitar made of wood. Of course, some are very rare, almost extinct in the timber.


studied for many guitar sounds really for people who know good and bad wood guitar to a piano will affect the sound of good or bad, it can be said that a violin is good or bad, in the timber on being singled out. If you have a guitar, with beautiful appearance, almost perfect sound, with rare wood from around the world together for a piano, that is what a proud thing.


in the manufacture of musical instruments, sound wood properties because of species, weight, wood fiber structure, age and density of different obvious change, and even cut down the drying of wood will have an impact on the sound . In theory, the more heavy timber on the continuity with the more excellent (sustain, SUSTAIN), and the sound bright and clear, bright and clear sound which for the BASS is very important. On the other hand is, the lighter the wood sound, the sound will become more clear or cloudy, and the lack of high frequency, this feature is particularly suitable for HUMBUCKER pickups (double coil). Light wood, while most will use two kinds of wood used to solve the problem of insufficient high frequency. The most typical example GIBSUN the LES PAUL. Medium weight wood between the properties of sound and ultra-light weight wood wood between. This is generally the traditional preference. Such as Alnus, Phragmites japonica wood, basswood, poplar, etc.. Guitar with the wood as a material has the famous Fender, Ibanez, ESP. And other famous brands.


Next, we want to detail about the guitar used in manufacturing the timber, and the Chinese guitar factories commonly used wood.


1: linden wood (Basswood)

basswood is a lighter neutral wood, basswood is usually a significant part of the white wood, creamy white and gradually incorporated into the light heartwood red to brown, sometimes darker stripes. Wood has a fine even texture and fuzzy ruled. Linden wood machining of good, easy to use hand tools to process, so is a superior carving materials. Nails, screws and glue fixed performance is still good. After sanding, staining and polishing to get a good smooth surface. Drying quite quickly, and the deformation is small, aging low. Drying shrinkage is rather big, but good dimensional stability. Sound on the performance is very stable and has a very mild tone and better sustain, but grainy is not strong, mainly for the piano and electric guitar material, the less demanding on the pickup, the pickup for a variety of musical styles, In northeast China's major growth area in the other major growth for the eastern United States, located in the northern states and the Lake states. Been used in guitar manufacturing. Has a price and poor quality of the praise.

2: Maple (Maple)

the current use of maple can be broadly divided into hard (northern hard or hard rock maple) and soft (western soft or bigleaf maple) both types . Hard maple because of high density, easy to paint handling, and their voices and there is good continuity and other reasons, many for the production of neck. But it is too bright sound of maple, so you probably do not see to Maple piano with guitar (acoustic guitar excluded). Most of the usage and other materials and also to do with the piano. Such as PRS and Gibson on the popular mahogany piano, coupled with maple on the surface. So maple can fill the missing high frequency mahogany, plus quite pleasing appearance. Soft maple (red-poplar alder) grown in Washington state, lighter on the strings vibration sensitivity, good, and their voices, but more crisp as hard maple; its low wood density, compared with ebony (ebony) fingerboard to do more than able to absorb the audio,Cheap electric Guitar, sound performance and ebony (rosewood) is similar to a more moderate voice. In fact, whether the so-called Flame Maple or Birdseye maple (Brideye Maple), its wood grain and tone are not directly related.


3: water melon


alias wooden chicken feet, are birch branches, semi-evergreen or deciduous tree, the tree is about 15 m high, barren-resistant, stain-resistant, fast growing solid ammonia, was born in sunny forest or waterside. The gray bark, trunk straight, fast growth. Wood brown, straight grain, fine structure. Not easy to crack and deformation of wood, easy processing, smooth section, with between basswood and Sapele wood between the characteristics of beautiful appearance, there is a long strip dotted texture to soft wood than basswood. Outstanding sound performance than the IF. But because of wood fiber structural reasons, large pores, poor handling of the paint film production, oil absorption capacity, Qin place some time after the body polishing, optical observation will find that many of the same wood grain paint drums subsidence phenomenon .


4: Chinese parasol tree


an ultra-light wood, in some very low-end electric guitars were used. Imagine if this guitar an empty timber production is garbage, but in practice, this material out of the piano to do, there is the treble and intermediate sound, but not the same as other light wood, it's very poor bass . Indus also a small amount of wood used to make panels of classical guitar which has a large volume and good sound, but the system and a great deal of trouble, because, no matter what method you use, you can not be avoided Qin place some time after the panel is the result of deformation.


5: Ash


deciduous trees, mainly distributed in Heilongjiang, northeast China, and Eastern Great Mountains, Jilin's Changbai Mountains and other places, the west was also distributed to the thousand hills of Liaoning, Hebei, Yanshan Mountains, as well as Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi and Local areas of Gansu. Ash wood is stronger, obviously beautiful wood, sapwood yellowish white, yellowish brown heartwood, planed processed wood saw slightly light golden yellow color. Material in the hard, smooth texture, beautiful patterns, processing performance and paint performance are good, water wear and deformation. Has good treble and extended sound. After the polished wood color is beautiful, clear analysis of visible lines. As the material properties of the reason is mainly used in guitar manufacturing in the bass of the piano body to do. However, in the manufacturing process should pay attention to the problems and cracking of the material when the timber is not strong puzzle problem. Ash is the ideal surface, timber, widely used in making furniture, musical instruments, sports equipment, cars, machinery and special construction materials.


6: Sapele (NATO)


a kind heart like peach wood and mahogany with similar color and texture of wood. Heavier than mahogany, and a little to brittle materials that have a high, middle and end sounds are more balanced audio. Used to do high-end electric guitar body and neck, but also by the amount of wood used to make the guitar and piano material neck material. Wood piano body color quite texture, but also in the production of antique rub them to do color, you can refer.


7: Alnus (Alder):

as alder light (like a Strat subsection piano and weighs about 4 pounds) and feature rich voice perfect, so it often be used to make the piano part. Texture makes it close its easy to deal with surface polishing. Alder's natural color is light brown with a little or no clear texture lines. Alder Fender piano as part of the backbone has been for many years. For sun-shaped (Sunburst) or solid (Solid color) of the polishing.

8: Mahogany (Mahogany):


can be said instead of Rosewood's Alternative choice. The wood very nice, but lacks the resonance of sandalwood great. However, the tone of it is still very much a character,Electric guitar parts, plus cheap, used solid wood guitar and become one. Mahogany is a heavy wood, usually a Strat subsection piano and even the average should be 5 pounds heavier [GIBSON's piano often 9 pounds 10 pounds is really Shen]. Mahogany is a kind of excellent texture and natural qualities of the music of the wood. Sound is warm and perfect, warm, rich low frequency sound has a very good sustain characteristics. Its unique texture make it easy to polish [Think of that wonderful body GIBSON piano patterns], although it is not ideal for clean polished look, but it is particularly suitable for polishing the red transparent.


9: poplar (Poplar):

This is another major guitar manufacturers generally use standardized piano timber. Because it is gray or green, so poplar only be used for solid (that is a single opaque) process [such as the piano many JACKSON]. It weighs about than alder (mentioned earlier Alder) half-pound weight (0.5 pounds more). The sound quality similar to alder (Alder). Poplar is also a close texture, easily polished.


10: Cen Wood Ash

also known as ash trees, there are two Cen wood - wood and swamp in northern Cen Cen hard wood (South Cen soft wood). North Cen hard wood very hard, heavy and high density. Section of the piano and a Strat usually at least 5 pounds of weight. It brings to its high density of bright sound and long sustain characteristics, which are to make it more epidemic. General Cen wood is cream-colored, but sometimes showed a pink to brown. Its texture is why the shape of pores is open to a lot of polishing to make it detailed. The swamp Cen wood (South Cen soft wood) is a kind of exotic wood. There are many reasons. It is a natural with the music of the wood - provided a very good bright and clear and warm, thick sound characteristics of effective balance. And it is very light, it became the main distinction in the North Cen is a major characteristic of wood. Strat general paragraph about the piano and have 5 pounds. Fender 50's many are made of wood with a swamp Cen. Its color is cream color, texture, shape was open.


11: Ash wood (Ash)

wood ash can be divided into hard (Northern Hard) and soft (Southern Soft or known as the Swamp Ash) Both. Quite hard ash wood hard and heavy, due to density, it sounds very bright and durable, although its color is cream color, but it's part of the wooden heart will be pink or brown color, its porosity larger, more programs need painting. Ash wood very soft with the value of the piano 50's FENDER most use of this wood, because of its lighter weight, so you can easily use the weight difference between the two ash trees, it has a very balanced and moderate degree of brightness sound characteristics.


12: Rosewood (Rosewood)


also known as ebony or rosewood, [the more familiar, common guitar finger board that is this dark wood]. Redwood is the most important of a timber, a Strat subsection piano and always more than six pounds [MY GOD], the general use of mahogany will be different according to different types (redwood there are many), but mainly our [ ,WARMOTH company] to use black rosewood Dalbergia species (Palisander, a Brazilian mahogany). Redwood sound quality than maple (Maple) to warm more, but the treble part because of the natural attributes of this timber is slightly depressed (not bright). Polished surface is very difficult. 13: Red Poplar (Alder)

Alder wood is probably one of the lower price, but it has a lot of people love the guitar wood. Because of its lighter and sound full of sake, red poplar is widely used in the production of the piano, which makes them close small holes on the floor paint can be easily dealt with a little red color near Poplar light brown. Fender's piano mostly use this wood, especially the Stratocaster. As for sound, you just bomb a good Fender is probably a glimpse. (I will not elaborate because the sound is very subjective, nor pen can describe the result). Of course, if you Alder bad impression if it is because the manufacturers have now choose any bargain; while those at the high hand piano Also Aspects of Intellectual beautiful Maple. This is the first good Alder became a flattening out of the case, it is a pity. Pushed about par with the Alder Ash. Reason is because the name Factory Fender Telecaster its extensive use of the piano in the production. Ash very heavy, and very strong low-frequency. Because of its good material properties and low cost, red poplar wood in the production of the musical instruments are quite common.

14: Sitka spruce (Sitka Spruce)


growth in Northern California and Alaska, the strength and flexibility in this wood that has good performance, can be used as the piano and use, and its color from white to light brown. This wood panels used to make guitar, its light and rigid. A lot of high-grade veneer panels are used in this piano made.


15: Engleman spruce (Engleman Spruce)

lighter texture, the sound is more bright than Sitka spruce, grown in northwest Montana and Canada.


16: Walnut (Walnut)

although not as walnut, maple (maple) as the weight, but it does not sound bright features that are similar to maple, walnut has a beautiful texture, especially after the performance of treatment more pleasant. Full of bass, clear treble, but the lack of high-frequency brightness.

17: red sandalwood (Rosewoods)


Rosewood (Rosewood, also known as ebony or rosewood): [in this more familiar with common guitar finger board that is this dark wood]. Redwood is the most important of a timber, a Strat subsection piano and always more than six pounds [MY GOD], the general use of mahogany will be different according to different categories. There are many types of rosewood, but most are based on the Indian rosewood (Indian rosewood), maple rosewood sound more moderate than many, but its treble because of the oil content of the wood itself, causes more poor, but also more difficult to paint the wood surface treatment, although it can be used in the piano and neck, but it is most commonly used in that board, piano and acoustic guitar on the back edge. Redwood sound quality than maple (Maple) to warm more, but the treble part because of the natural attributes of this timber is slightly depressed (not bright). Polished surface is very difficult to

18: Pinus densiflora (Spruce)


of acoustic guitar if you have it, probably will notice that Spruce is the most commonly used in wood panels, especially high-priced products. It is bright and resonant sound good. European production of Spruce in general is the best choice.


19: Lace Wood (acewood):


a sycamore, which is a timber imports from Australia. The texture is characterized by small spots and large spots of the mixture mixed to form a unique signature as reptile-like appearance. (Really easy to recognize). It is most suitable for laminated wood on top of the formation of the other piano, but can also separate a piano, sound quality is close to alder (Alder).