Laminate = plywood, technically speaking. Pound for pound, laminates are significantly stronger than their solid-wood counterparts. To get the same structural integrity in a solid-wood 335 design, you'd have to have thicker wood. This, in turn will either change the body depth or the volume of the hollow cavities. In either case, the tone would be significantly different. A solid-wood 335 wouldn't be a 335 as we know it. You'd hear the difference. Nigel's example of his 335s is excellent.

If one uses quality woods to build the plies, there is absolutely no reason whatsoever why a plywood body couldn't be resonant and toneful.
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