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Re: Body Wood

8/29/1999 1:24 PM
Mike Malott	Re: Body Wood Oak machines very well with carbide tools. White oak is finer grained than red oak, and splinters less (although both species do tend to splinter.) I think white oak would be the better choice for a guitar body. I once obtained some "flamed" red oak, but have never completed that guitar body. Fifteen years ago, I played an oak bodied strat that was made by Willcutt Guitars in Lexington, KY. It was fine playing & sounding instrument, but was as heavy as a Les Paul! I have heard that oak is a "tone soak" type of wood, but this has never been substantiated, to my knowledge. Perhaps this is an old wives' tale. Mike Malott

8/29/1999 1:24 PM

Mike Malott

Re: Body Wood

Oak machines very well with carbide tools. White oak is finer grained than red oak, and splinters less (although both species do tend to splinter.) I think white oak would be the better choice for a guitar body. I once obtained some "flamed" red oak, but have never completed that guitar body.

Fifteen years ago, I played an oak bodied strat that was made by Willcutt Guitars in Lexington, KY. It was fine playing & sounding instrument, but was as heavy as a Les Paul!

I have heard that oak is a "tone soak" type of wood, but this has never been substantiated, to my knowledge. Perhaps this is an old wives' tale.

Mike Malott

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Mike Burgundy I have heard that oak is a "tone... -- 8/29/1999 2:04 PM