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These look the dogs bollocks to me.

They're moaning on the Squier forum about them not having the three bolts AND being Basswood

Fran wrote:These look the dogs bollocks to me.

They're moaning on the Squier forum about them not having the three bolts AND being Basswood

My Squier Venus is made of basswood. And it's easily the best sounding guitar I own. My other two being a Jaguar and a Les Paul.

<3 Basswood.

I have 6 Squier Vistas made of Basswood. And my Squier VM Jaguar is made of basswood, and sustains as well as my Les Paul. Love them all.
I have a 1977 Fender hardtail Strat with a rosewood board, and I am quite fond of it. The bullet truss rod is an important part of the look to me, and I love that my Super-Sonics have them, but I wouldn't dismiss this VM Squier 70s strat for that.

Basswood is one sort motherfucker, though. I love working with it. You can practically route a pickup route with a flathead screwdriver in basswood.

Try doing that in ash.

Oh no, not the old basswood discussion

there's nothing wrong with it. if you don't like it, play ash.

I think my Nu-Sonic is basswood, I'm not so sure about my Batwing. For the Nu-Sonic, it bashes up incredibly easily which isn't something I mind too much on the Nu-Sonic, but otherwise it doesn't seem to make very much difference at all, other than having the blandest sunburst ever. It sounds and plays great.

I like basswood because it's super light and all my basswood guitars have sounded great. I have five guitars right now. Two are agathis, three are basswood, and they sound just great. I also have a basswood bass.

I'm just saying it's super soft. You can carve it with a flathead. I'm not exaggerating. It's precisely what I did to the Aerodyne Strat to get enough clearance for a larger pot (it's hard to describe if you've never seen the inside of the route). The downside is that it does ding easily. However, on my Daisy Rock the finish is so thick that I can't imagine it'd be easy to ding that thing.

I hate maple fretboards but that black strat is fucking sexy.

Oh yes... Squier put out a new guitar which means it's time for the old "is basswood good or not" arguement!

The only problem I have with basswood is, as ek already stated, it dents extremely easy so you have to be very careful with it. I wouldn't make a basswood guitar my main gigging instrument, as I would fear that it would get too bashed up too quickly. It's also quite unsightly when it gets bashed and dented. Paint chips off in a weird way compared to other woods. I used to have a 90's sonic blue mustang, and it got dented way too easy, my friend through a cable to me once and the input end hit the mustang and left a very ugly dent in the top of the guitar. I also dented it with my thumbnail pretty easily just to see if I could. I had a jag-stang that I got for free that was bashed up as hell, and the paint almost looked like it was being peeled off around all the chips and dents. I've been very careful with my '69 comp stang though and it looks awesome. As long as you're extremely careful with them they're fine, they sound great and are extremely light weight which is very important to me.

Were'nt Squier 51s basswood? no one moaned and some CV Teles are pine, nothing dents easier than pine.. its a soft wood.
It is all quite funny, some these Strat people go on about Japanese Squiers being awesome and some of them were made of plywood.

These basswood guitars all have a poly finish, so they should not be that easy to dent.

black on black+70's style strat logo=mega pants tent

I really like both of these.

Plywood is fine. My Danelectro is made out of some sort of formica or something for fucks sake. It's still one of my favourite guitars, and not just for sentimental reasons. I kept coming back to it as I improved and moved through several different layers of snobbery. It's amazing the number of 30-45yr old guitarists who have yet to do that.

cur wrote:These basswood guitars all have a poly finish, so they should not be that easy to dent.

I think you're overstating how thick poly finishes are here - it's hardly a plastic crash helmet like you're making out. My primary issue with basswood is that I don't like the sound of it, the feel and ding-attraction are secondary. Pine sounds and feels nicer than basswood to me, so I can forgive its softness. And it's the construction (semi-hollow) more than the wood that gives Dano's their signature sound.

I can appreciate I'm setting myself up for switchtips-style ridicule here.

Yep, its Basswood

Haha. I could not resist it Tim.

I'm anal about these things, but I don't dig the truss rod hole. They should made a bullet or just STFU and skip the otherwise excellent project.

benecol wrote:...My primary issue with basswood is that I don't like the sound of it ...

I don't think you'd be able to tell the difference between two electric solidbody guitars that are identical in every way but the body wood without knowing ahead of time that one was basswood. You'll say you could, but, I'd need evidence to prove it