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Michael
Lead Virtuoso
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Location: Brisbane, Australia
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"Bloodwood – This red colored wood is a native of Brazil. It is beautiful and heavy wood." Link
And a little more info for those who love the wood:
http://www.exotic-wood.com/bloodwood.htm |
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1bassleft
Lowdown Cack-hander
Joined: 16 Feb 2005
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Location: "Hit The North"
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 2:04 am Post subject: |
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The luthier Christopher Woods (mentioned elsewhere) has also made a bloodwood Tele. www.christopherwoods.com
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lee_UK
Rolling Stone No.8
Joined: 04 Feb 2005
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Location: London, UK
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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| looks like a wider grained mahoghany. |
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1bassleft
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 1:04 am Post subject: |
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Even more dense, Lee (talking about the wood - have I done that joke before?  )
Probably weighs something like rosewood , on a bod-for-bod basis. Just my estimate/guess. |
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lee_UK
Rolling Stone No.8
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| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 3:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Must be one of the heaviest woods around, not realy ideal to hang around your neck for 2 hours, i remember a friend of mine had a 68 reissue jap strat with a basswood body, now that was heavy! |
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1bassleft
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| Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 2:39 am Post subject: |
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Basswood may be balsa-light, but it's about as resistant to dings, too. Those 70s North-American ash bodies look lurvly but by gum, they weigh. The basses are real shoulder slopers. I guess there's good reason that alder, swamp ash and mahogany are the most popular body woods.
Funnelly nuff, I used to be quite sceptical that wood choice made such a difference to tone (compared with the electrics) but my mahogany bass has a bottom like J-Lo compared with the others. |
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lee_UK
Rolling Stone No.8
Joined: 04 Feb 2005
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Location: London, UK
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| Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 12:31 am Post subject: |
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| Watch it Bass we might be in for a youngwasp attack if you start quoting wood body tonal qualites, My firends Basswood strat was very heavy not balsa wood light, thats the main reason he got rid of it, i also notice a lot of the production jap fender modls are now basswood. |
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1bassleft
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| Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 3:35 am Post subject: |
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| I honestly thought you were being ironic, Lee. Basswood is usually low density (and very dingable). Sure that RI wasn't ash? Ash does weigh something awful. |
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glw
Lover of Fine Antigua
Joined: 18 Jul 2005
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Location: Oxfordshire, Uk
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| Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 9:36 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, my Fender Jap Strat is basswood, and it's pretty damn solid.
It's not as heavy as my perspex Strat though. |
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lee_UK
Rolling Stone No.8
Joined: 04 Feb 2005
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Location: London, UK
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| Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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| definatly basswood and very heavy, maybe it was a smugglers guitar stacked with 5kgs of coke, and he let it go for £300 with upgraded pickups and the original set too. criminal. |
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