Simple as that. So regardless of the truth of the matter I dont know the truth so dont troll me! If they now were to say 'we cant get mahogany anymore, but dont worry because beech is just as good How could it? Well if that day ever comes.. Im sure the Gibson marketing machine will come up with an appropriate enough BS reason and make it sound like the best thing ever :.
Its not that I think they should stop using Mahogany and Maple, I just think that to me, LPs with different woods, even if its just the tops, is far more interesting than any of the "innovations" they have come up with the last few years..
So Aaron at Guitar Center will what? Scratch his neck tat and what? Go find out about fair trade wages and how eco friendly this here Martin is? Is that what is going to happen? Gibson uses "genuine mahogany" Swietenia Macrophylla these days for bodies and necks on solid-bodied instruments. The term "genuine mahogany" only means it's harvested in Central and South America, opposed to new market entrants like Africa and Asia.
Gibson Acoustic. Gibson wood source? Start new topic. Prev 1 2 Next Page 1 of 2. Recommended Posts. This is the most popular laminated body type of all time.
Adding a solid maple top to a solid mahogany back yields a guitar body that exhibits many of the best tonal properties of both woods. It is now surfacing more and more as a body wood used in affordable, Asian-made electrics, and it displays a rather bland, characterless quality. This highly prized tonewood is seen frequently in fretboards, and in the backs and sides of many quality flat-top acoustics, but rarely in solidbody electrics. One notable exception was the Rosewood Telecaster that Fender produced sporadically between and and was played by George Harrison.
Rosewood makes for a very heavy and overly bright-sounding guitar—and an expensive one, too—that is typically more of interest for looks and novelty factor than for tone. Dense and fairly heavy, with sonic characteristics similar to those of mahogany, walnut is occasionally used in electric-guitar bodies. It tends to be warm and full, but usually with a firmer low end, and more overall tightness. These are mostly hard, dense woods with distinctive grain patterns.
The colors can be appealing in their natural states, and they are usually used as one ingredient of many in a multi-wood body. Spruce and cedar—the two most common woods for the tops of acoustic guitars—will very rarely come into the picture regarding electric-guitar construction, although makers have occasionally offered semi-hollow electrics with thin spruce tops.
A very dense, hard wood, ebony makes for a fast attack from the instrument—all else being equal—and it offers a muscular, controlled bass, and snappy, sizzling highs. With a mahogany back contributing some warmth and openness to the brew, this can be a very appealing pairing.
Mahogany has a warm, mellow tone with good presence in the lower mids. Whether in the form of a solid, one-piece neck with integral fretboard, or a neck with an added fretboard of a second type of wood usually rosewood , maple is easily the most common type of neck wood used in solidbody guitars. Messages 10, Sorry if this thread is redundant but I'm just getting into Les Pauls and don't want to read through thousands of old threads for my answer.
Enter the '91 Les Paul Classic. About a month ago I was trying out every production model Les Paul because I needed to learn and play a couple of Mark Knopfler tunes like Brother in Arms. I liked the Traditional and was going to pull the trigger until I saw a used Les Paul on the rack.
The only thing that is not Historic are the Grover tuners. I sat there for over an hour transfixed at the tone of this guitar. I was playing it through a Two Rock Onyx. I bought the Classic on the spot. A couple of weeks later after becoming obsessed with Les Pauls , because I liked the guitar so much I bought a nice R0 plaintop from a friend.
The Classic was so much more full of thick Les Paul tones like Knopfler uses, and it sounds "vintage. It didn't feel as good. Am I imagining it or did Gibson use far superior wood in their early '90s guitars? Also, the finish on the '91 looks like a guitar from the late '50s. Was the painting process different then? I know that early 90s Classic are considered to be good guitars, but mine is just ridiculous. I think I'll be looking for an early '90s Totally Bored Member. Messages 9, In 91 they sprinkled fairy dust on the wood.
Messages 1, Gibsons from the early 90s are generally thought to be exceptional guitarslower production numbers probably play a big part in that There was a thread a few weeks ago and it had lots of input from someone that worked at Gibson during this timeit was fool of great info and insight. Pretty sure the 91' Classic would be weight relieved and the R0 would be solid.
I hear the term 'resonant' associated with weight relieved guitars so maybe that's just what? Personally, I love my standard which is also weight relieved and play it alot more then my R9. Two years after a shipment of Madagascan ebony was confiscated, Gibson ran into trouble when a shipment from India arrived in Dallas this June.
According to a federal affidavit , the wood was brought into the US under a tariff code that made it illegal to export from India - thus violating the Lacey Act. Henry Juszkiewicz insists the wood is from a sustainable source, and the dispute is really over tariff coding.
Gibson has letters from the Indian government supporting its interpretation, Mr Juszkiewicz says, but they have not been made public. We've been purchasing that wood for 17 years exactly the same way.
In any case, he insists, an armed raid "should not be the first response to an import-export issue". It is the armed raid that has now polarised the debate around Gibson and given it a wider political resonance. For the Tea Party, and for local Republican Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn, the sight of federal agents raiding an iconic American company symbolises everything wrong with modern-day Washington.
That's something that we can help with in Congress. Even supporters of the Lacey Act admit compliance is a tricky and subjective business. The two Gibson cases are the first cases under Lacey since forest products were added to the legislation in , according to Scott Paul, director of forest campaigns for Greenpeace USA. Despite the criminal probe, there is "no suggestion that the Indian wood was cut illegally," he says.
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