Contribution to the tonewood debate - a unique take (Bacci)

[Cato]

There's a luthier I follow on instagram, Cindy Guitars who's usp is using reclaimed wood she's obtained from various old New York buildings.

 

Some of her instruments can look a little 'distressed' and are probably not to everyone's taste, but as far as I'm aware she doesn't claim any mystical tone properties for them.

 

 

https://www.cindyguitars.com/

 

This is an interesting example

 

 

 

https://www.cindyguitars.com/#/hshdh-1/

 

 

 

 

Edited April 29 by Cato

[crazycloud]

There was a guy on one of the luthier's fora (maybe TB?) some time back that had a top made of driftwood that looked similar and I quite liked it. There are plenty of barncasters and FSO style clones that are made of all sorts of old timbers; I have some in the shed that will eventually be made into bodies*.

 

However 7300 squids with a load of bollocks in the marketing type mean I wouldn't go near it, unless it was in a store nearby and I could try it for interest's sake. Might even be good.

 

* Because I like the aesthetic. Oh, and I don't buy into the tonewood thing at all.

[Beedster]

A Badass for the 2020's.......?

 

[W1_Pro]

11 hours ago, Beedster said:

I knew I shouldn't have clicked the link......

 

 

This is surely a joke............?

Deeply Spinal Tap......

[snorkie635]

1 minute ago, W1_Pro said:

Deeply Spinal Tap......

A lot of Spinal Pap more like. 😎

[ezbass]

21 hours ago, bloke_zero said:

 

| Each hole is meticulously cleaned and cleared for maximum acoustic impact.

🤯

Using snake oil of course.  

[three]

12 hours ago, Beedster said:

I knew I shouldn't have clicked the link......

 

 

This is surely a joke............?

Sorry Chris!  My scepticism may be terribly misplaced but I’m struggling with this one

[W1_Pro]

Maybe each hole acts like a tiny folded horn and projects monumental bass waaay into the stratosphere?

[Hellzero]

That said, this technique is not really new and Robert Benedetto made two acoustic archtop guitars with similar wood, simply stating that the sound holes were already naturally constructed by the worms.

 

 

 

"Il Teredo (Serial #S1416GP) The sound holes are naturally constructed by the Teredo mollusk, also known as the Ship Worm. One of the most unique guitars we've made!"

[ead]

Suddenly the Fodera P bass looks to be good value.

[Dood]

Now I get it! I could never understand how people on Farcebook Marketplace had the gall to sell garage ridden overpriced guitar tat. They were just placing the instruments in a pro-toneworm environment to enrich the instrument's inherent musical qualities! 

[ead]

I'm going to check what I have knocking about in the garage at lunchtime.

[fretmeister]

BTW reviewed the Michael League signature model a little while ago..

 

 

 

Sounds nice... like any good P bass.

[snorkie635]

Sounds fine, but not the Holey Grail it claims to be.

[HeadlessBassist]

18 hours ago, Beedster said:

Wise word young jedi 🙏

 

"These are not the Tonewoods you are looking for..."

[Mykesbass]

I've got to pull some fence posts and large planks of wood from the canal in Tipton tomorrow - any bids from our budding luthiers?

[PinkMohawk]

That's got to be the most phallic headstock I've ever seen that wasn't just a cock. 

[andruca]

Snake oil and snobbery make for giant SCAMS. I call HUGE B/S.

Edited May 3 by andruca

[Bagman]

Laugh all you want

 

but I think Wenge is it's own thing 

 

I have MTD , Tobias, and Warwick wenge instruments , and I think they are "snappier" if that's what you want 

[neepheid]

6 hours ago, Bagman said:

but I think Wenge is it's own thing 

 

My eyes see "wenge" and my brain sees "wedgie". I'm such a child.

[Hellzero]

7 hours ago, Bagman said:

Laugh all you want

 

but I think Wenge is it's own thing 

 

I have MTD , Tobias, and Warwick wenge instruments , and I think they are "snappier" if that's what you want 

I guess you mean wenge neck and/or fingerboard as a full wenge instrument would be so heavy...

 

That said, I'm with you concerning tonewood. 😉

[Terry M.]

1 hour ago, neepheid said:

 

My eyes see "wenge" and my brain sees "wedgie". I'm such a child.

Pronounced wen-gay apparently. Does that help? 😆

[Terry M.]

8 hours ago, Bagman said:

Laugh all you want

 

but I think Wenge is it's own thing 

 

I have MTD , Tobias, and Warwick wenge instruments , and I think they are "snappier" if that's what you want 

I have two Warwick basses with wenge fretboards and would describe them as "articulate" No idea if that's the wenge or other factors. Someone has a Streamer Broadneck on ebay for sale at the minute (I also have one) with the fretboard wood being described as rosewood. I messaged them letting them know it was wenge a few weeks ago but was ignored and the description still says rosewood. I guess I was surprised an actual owner of one would make that error but hey...

[neepheid]

14 minutes ago, Terry M. said:

Pronounced wen-gay apparently. Does that help? 😆

 

I know how it's pronounced, that doesn't stop the rude, adolescent part of my brain running riot...

[Terry M.]

9 minutes ago, neepheid said:

 

I know how it's pronounced, that doesn't stop the rude, adolescent part of my brain running riot...

So no help then 😂