I was thinking of changing the Alder body of my Strat with a Mahogany body - maybe Honduran if Tommy can still get me one.
This exchange would rather be an experiment to see if it suits the neck, pickups and my playing style even better.
The Strat in question is a dual-humbucking USACG Strat, 2-piece centre-join Alder body, fixed Hipshot bridge with stainless steel saddles (this is a great and bright sounding bridge btw) and a super-special USACG 2-piece all-Madagascar Rosewood 25"-PRS-scaled neck.
It has custom wound PAF-style humbuckers that fit my taste of a humbucker guitar very well.
My initial idea for the sound-formula of this Strat was to get this guitar more into PRS/Gibson territory but with a Strat feel and optics. I chose these components and I have to say that it was a bit of a hassle to find the right pickups for this wood-combo, but in the end it has turned out very well for me. The feel and tone of this guitar is very "woody" (to use a cliché-expression here), generally dark and very-un-Strat-like, given the fixed brigde, humbuckers and 25"scale Rosewood neck. But this was as planned - even the tendency for a little mud in the sound.
Now, I'm generally very happy but I'm just thinking here: what would change if I had Tommy make me a 2-piece hardtail Strat body out of Mahogany? Even muddier? The reason for my question is that you most often get all-Rosewood necks with Mahogany (looking at what PRS offers). Is this maybe an even better formula? Do those 2 woods (all-Rosewood and Mahogany) mate better - you know, bring out the best in each other?
And on a sidenote: a Mahogany with a thick enough Maple-cap on a typical Strat dimension body would also interest me. Should I prefer this over sole Mahogany?
Would Alder be brighter than a Mahogany/Maple combo?
Any thoughts on this is greatly appreciated. I'd love to hear your opinion
This exchange would rather be an experiment to see if it suits the neck, pickups and my playing style even better.
The Strat in question is a dual-humbucking USACG Strat, 2-piece centre-join Alder body, fixed Hipshot bridge with stainless steel saddles (this is a great and bright sounding bridge btw) and a super-special USACG 2-piece all-Madagascar Rosewood 25"-PRS-scaled neck.
It has custom wound PAF-style humbuckers that fit my taste of a humbucker guitar very well.
My initial idea for the sound-formula of this Strat was to get this guitar more into PRS/Gibson territory but with a Strat feel and optics. I chose these components and I have to say that it was a bit of a hassle to find the right pickups for this wood-combo, but in the end it has turned out very well for me. The feel and tone of this guitar is very "woody" (to use a cliché-expression here), generally dark and very-un-Strat-like, given the fixed brigde, humbuckers and 25"scale Rosewood neck. But this was as planned - even the tendency for a little mud in the sound.
Now, I'm generally very happy but I'm just thinking here: what would change if I had Tommy make me a 2-piece hardtail Strat body out of Mahogany? Even muddier? The reason for my question is that you most often get all-Rosewood necks with Mahogany (looking at what PRS offers). Is this maybe an even better formula? Do those 2 woods (all-Rosewood and Mahogany) mate better - you know, bring out the best in each other?
And on a sidenote: a Mahogany with a thick enough Maple-cap on a typical Strat dimension body would also interest me. Should I prefer this over sole Mahogany?
Would Alder be brighter than a Mahogany/Maple combo?
Any thoughts on this is greatly appreciated. I'd love to hear your opinion
