Maybe it's to do with the weight. I have 2 JM's, one sunburst and one CAR. The CAR is definitely heavier than the sunburst and i've always preferred the sunburst.
T'was more of a realisation that my love of sunburst tricks me into believing this... if I play two guitars identical in every other way I always think the sunburst one sounds better... this is obviously utter rubbish but I still think "the sunburst just has teh mojo".
johnnyseven wrote:Maybe it's to do with the weight. I have 2 JM's, one sunburst and one CAR. The CAR is definitely heavier than the sunburst and i've always preferred the sunburst.
On this note I have two Telecasters in CAR and Burst, the CAR is substantially heavier.
I guess, on a lot of guitar, you could argue that since they use X wood over Y wood on their sunburst model; it sounds better. But underneath 1/4 inch poly, I still won't believe it.
And even then, on most scumburst, they use the same wood as the other colors.
A little known fact : Sunbursting actually involves a long chemical process whereby supercharged ions emitted by violent solar flares are collected and refracted onto the guitar's surface. The natural magnetic field of the wood, albeit weak, causes a concentration of ions at the body's edges, hence the colour gradient. After several weeks the process yields a wood with an inherently more resonant microstructure and a richer acoustic index. Sunburst guitars do sound better.
Yeah I'm not afraid to say it
