Basswood has a warm, balanced sound with great mid-range and good sustain. Because it doesn’t have much of a grain or color, it’s most commonly used on instruments that have an opaque paint-job, though this isn’t always the case (as in the photo above). A side effect of being soft is that it also dents easily. Basswood Basswood used for the guitar body on an Ibanez RG7īasswood comes from Linden trees, and it is soft and easy to work with. Les Paul type guitars often combine a mahogany body wood with a maple top for a total that is balanced overall. Mahogany gives a warm timbre with a lot of bottom end. There are 49 types of Mahogany, but many are practically extinct because of the wood’s popularity for furniture and musical instruments, and the types used today are not the same as the Mahogany used in guitars in the 1940s or 1950s. Many guitar and bass bodies are made from Mahogany. Mahogany Mahogany used as the body and top wood on a Gibson Les Paul Maple is also often used as a top for the guitar body, partly because it is beautiful (think flame or quilted maple tops), and partly because it can give a bright sound that would otherwise be murky. Guitar necks are traditionally made from the dense wood of maple, in part because of its strength, and in part, because the material can highlight and amplify the wood in the body. Maple is a very hard type of wood with good tonal qualities and good sustain. Maple Flame Maple on an acoustic guitar back-image c/o Josred Handmade Guitars. As such, each project demands its own approach. To qualify as one of the best wood for guitars, a type of wood must be strong enough to hold up structurally but also have the tonal properties that a luthier is looking for for a particular project. Each of the main guitar tonewoods has its own place and is chosen for its particular characteristics. Spruce, for example, is often used for tops in acoustic guitars (“spruce top”) but is not an ideal material for electric instruments. Not all woods are suitable for use in all parts of a guitar.
What types of woods are used for guitars? The type of wood, along with how it is treated in the factory, will determine what the instrument looks, sounds, and plays like. Strings matter, the hardware matters, the type of paint matters. Each instrument has a unique voice and feeling, and two are rarely the same-even if they might look alike.Įvery part of an instrument matters. While that might be true from a certain point of view, musicians know that instruments come alive in their hands. People who don’t play an instrument often believe an electric guitar or bass is basically just a board with strings on it.
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