Great explanation, Soren. This deserves many views.

Great analysis. I have 7 guitars and I have been convinced it is mostly the pickups that make the tone for a long time. Your reasoning about why solid bodies were developed in the first place makes a lot of sense. l was in a guitar store when I heard someone playing a 12 string Byrds song, and it sounded great. I thought from the sound of it he was playing an expensive Rickenbacker. You can imaging my surprise when it turned out to be an inexpensive Danelectro made of Masonite and plywood. Your wine comparison was perfect. Thanks for sharing this.

My man, you need more views. Excellent video and totally agree with everything you said. I have been trying to debunk the myth of "tonewood" for years. I think it is also a mental thing, somebody that buys for example a very expensive PRS with fancy woods because they think that this type of wood sounds more bright, have a hard time accepting the fact that the sound is the same as their cheap mahogany guitar, they will come up with any BS to justify that the guitar tone is more special or different. My friends and family can't tell my fancy black limba body guitar sounds different than my swamp ash body guitar, the thing they can notice is how beautiful those woods are. And that is the reason why I buy fancy wood guitar, not because of the tone, I buy them because they looks amazing, the grain, the mineral deposits, etc, those are visual aspecsts that can be perceived by people, not the tone, whatever differnce the wood makes, it cannot be perceived by the human ear and it gets lost once it hits the pickups, the wire, the noise gate, the effects, amp, etc. I subscribed, keep up with the great work! 🤘🤘

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" - choose a guitar you like the sound of. That said, I think it is also true that there are certain sounds that more people tend to find more appealing than others, but this is just a more nuanced version of (or extension to) the fact that western ears tend to prefer the 12 tone scale over middle-eastern microtonal scales (though through artists like Jacob Collier and King Gizzard and the Lizzard Wizzard introducing more western ears to this idea, this is slowly changing...but I, for one, am a 12 tone guy ;) )

Totally agree! What gets changed with changing the material and the shape is the eigenfrequency. But i'll doubt that the eigenfrequency has a hearble impact. I'm not even sure if it would be possible to deconstruct the signal from a pick up to find the eigenfrequency of the guitar...(FFT or other ways)