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SEB SULLIVAN
Posted on Sunday, October 21, 2001 - 8:07 am:   
AS MUCH AS I LOVE MY RG-560 iTS GOING TO BE REWORKED IN THE NEW YEAR. mY BROTHER IS GOING TO MAKE ME A BODY FROM AN OLD MAHOGANY CABINET, THE SSH PICKUP LAYOUT IS GOING IN FAVOUR OF 2 HUMBUCKERS. i'M KEEPING THE FLOYD THOUGH. i LOVE THE RG'S BUT BASSWOOD SEEMS JUST LIKE AN EXCUSE TO KEEP THE PRODUCTION COSTS DOWN. MINES MADE OF 4 PEICES.
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JohnS
Posted on Monday, October 22, 2001 - 12:30 pm:   
Seb:

I've always wondered about the Basswood guitars. But nobody has really been complaining (including Steve Vai), so I figured it must be OK.

I had some mahogany panels from a very old upright piano that I was going to use for a guitar body. On closer inpsection, I found that only the smallest pieces were solid mahogany. The biggest were veneers. Bummed me out.
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Steve (Gitfiddle1)
Posted on Monday, October 22, 2001 - 1:01 pm:   
Guys,

Basswood is a good material for guitar bodies. It does provide good tone, but it's cheap so it's got a bad rep. Why is it cheap? It's plentiful and it's not very pretty. You ever see a basswood body that's not solid finished?

Seb, if you look close at most production solid-body guitars, they're made from multiple pieces. Large chunks of hardwood are expensive so it's cost effective to laminate smaller pieces together. FYI; Your RG560 is gonna look like an RG520, and sound like an "S" with the planned rework. Good luck!

Cheers
Steve
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sebastian4
Posted on Thursday, November 29, 2001 - 11:23 am:   
Thanks steve,
I guess my obsession with mahogany is now going too far, I just bought a Gibson SG std, I'm putting off doing up the old girl til the new year. I'll post a picture when its done.
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Koadude (Koadude)
Posted on Saturday, February 28, 2004 - 5:19 pm:   
RG-550 I blocked up the trem routs, front & rear with mahog., made my own bridge from stainless steel for tele brass compensated saddles and put Lace Holy Grail set in custom made p.g. WHOA! I was initially worried about basswwods tonality but this baby blows my Fralin pup strat away. www.projectguitar.com shows the trem blocking

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