As Max says. We are in the golden age of guitar

@@lioninthesun8833 indeed.

It’s usually the elitist in the hobby. Just like in the watch community, I’ve learned in the community, having a great value for money item in the market is just damning to an elitist. Something that shouldn’t exist, couldn’t exist but it does and “average people” can afford it. Boils their blood right quick. I’ve run into Gibson snobs that literally laughed at my Epiphone Black Beauty for being a Chinese “fake”. It’s funny because Gibson authorized their creation and it was also built in Korea 😂 but even if it was Chinese, modern Epiphones are made in China now and you can get an ebony board, Gibson CTS500 pots, real 7ply binding and real MOP in the headstock inlays! Can’t beat it. But again to an elitist, it’s a cheap hack.

The people who make those "cheap guitar" comments probably work for the expensive guitar makers. 🤔

People who spend massive amounts of money want to believe they have acquired a vastly superior instrument compared to the guy who bought a budget guitar, despite both being fully capable of making great music. It's a strange obsession with a false sense of status. People should just get the least expensive guitar that does the job and go make some music. The quality of your music matters far more than the name on the headstock. At minimum, if the body and neck are constructed well and the frets are done right, everything else can be easily upgraded for cheaper than a big name guitar. If you put good hardware and electronics in it, it can be better than a Shitson or a Bendover for a fraction of the price. If you buy a boutique guitar, you're paying for the labor of a custom build, which is fair. The mass produced guitars, such as Fender and Gibson, have no right to cost thousands of dollars. They're charging for the name. I give zero fucks about names. If it feels good and sounds good, it's good. It doesn't matter if it says Glarry on it.

Yeah. And I wish this 24 minute video went a little more in depth exploring this notion, as the title kind of eludes to. But sadly no. We spent 24 minutes exploring something that this guy could have thoroughly covered in maybe 3 minutes. “Guitar not made of fake wood. Guitar made of real wood”. The title was a little click-baity.

My fender squires sound and play better than my Les Paul ever did. I still have my squires...My les Pail got sold.

I got my guitar, amp, and picks all for only $115, and it was way better than I expected it to be

lawsuit Ibanez, Greco era "copys" guitars will eat most (if not all) recent Gibson custom shop guitars on the market.

@@chrissturley823Did we watch the same video? Where did the extra 8 minutes come from lol

That's a lot of damage!

Lol or JB weld

@@kickfighting1015 Didn't Paul Harvey used to do adverts for JB Weld?

@@justaskin8523 not sure

coulda just peeked behind the pickups to look at the grain

that was because it was japanese made. Indonesians and chinese are not japanese

I would argue: "the best guitar is the one you like" instead. My first guitar was atrocious. It was literally injuring me to play, but I didn't know any better, I thought that's how it used to be. Nowadays, I have many guitars, some of them being fully custom USA made instruments and yet, I find myself gravitating towards some of my least expensive instruments still. I will always say this to newer players looking for a new guitar: "choose one that inspire you and feels good TO YOU"

Say that last line louder for those in the back. 🎉

@@q-perspective8989 time to get off the internet, grandpa

@@pilotamurorei I have seen plywood instruments from all countries including USA and double basses.

we are gluing and screwing that sh** back together

Doh!

NAY! MAY THEY ROCK IN PEACE! :)

Very eloquently expressed, sir. Well done.

I would love to have both of them.....remove some more wood...fill in gaps with tinted resin

Assuming the hardware isn't poor quality, yes. More often than not, the tuning pegs are terrible and have to be replaced. Everything else you can get away with, even pickups.

Funny thing is, sometimes even expensive guitars need a set-up

@@proudbrogressive315 Even alot of the lowest cost guitars nowadays have 'acceptable' quality tuners, bridge etc. The 'low end' bar has definitely gone up. Cheapest guitars right now are like, 10x better than cheapest guitars even 15 years ago

Let's just ignore the improper use if a bladed tool that can cut arteries and bone

Solid wood = / = high quality

That’s my whole deal! I have very specific taste in guitars and it’s all in feel. I’ll take a MiM Strat home and modify the hell out of it. Nothing against the American ones, I just can’t afford them haha!

Yep. The best pickup I ever split was an unknown generic I found at a pawn store. The coil is now half generic/half Seymour Duncan. It is now a full humbucker.

I have a guitar parts graveyard that I go full mad scientist with and build complete abominations.

I have a pawn shop strat body with decidedly suspicious 'wood' that I put a pawnshop neck on. Changed the pickups, tuners and pots and it's now my go to guitar for playing slide.

​@@tantibusking7095 do you post any videos of your works?

The KS-400 in Sunburst? I’ve got one myself, great guitar.

Plywood works just fine!

Yep, I have a ‘90 Aerostar that I rebuilt and love.

Plywood isn't even a cheap material, it's a construction material of reall wood veneers sandwiched together. Ppl also forget semi-acoustic guitars costing thousands of dollars have the main body (not the place where the pickups are mounted) made from plywood, although it will be called laminated wood of course even though it is the same thing.

I have an ‘86 Kramer 100ST that’s “composite” and it sounds better than many high end modern guitars. It just has this thing about it. And the neck is exceptional.

right?!?!?

Frankly, it would have been interesting to do a before and after comparison of the sound of the two.

@@philipershler420 There would be literally no difference in sound...

PLAY YOUR RUBBER BOAT SHOES !!!!

I was thinking that. Doesn't clamp guitar, uses Sawzall one-handed, no gloves. Could've been a disaster.

Don't forget the guitar VST plug-ins. Young'uns can now produce riffs and shredding in 10 minutes without learning to play guitar.

Interesting….in 1995 I bought a used 66’ SG Junior….actual Gibson …..for $500, with its Gibson branded case at a tiny shop in Venice Ca. where the guy lived in back…Rose Ave. Attention MAX! He is now having a store closing sale all these years later, discounts! If I never played it, it was a fantastic investment, ya all know how much that would cost now! A hand built era guitar! And later I found out that that one year, the neck tenon is much longer, (better stronger) they never made one like it before or since the ‘66 model year. I’ve since added a Tone Pros replacement for the Leo Quan adjustable wrap bridge, and SD PU and refretted it, someone put Grover’s on it before I bought it! So back in the day new was just as you say, you didn’t get much for under $500 new….but fab deals were available used, now, modern manufacturing makes new guitars for amazing prices. WHY would you shell out $5k for a new Gibson, especially when an axe like an AIO is set up to play brand new for under $500😳

I'm middle aged too. You know they sell these cheap guitars to us too. I bought a couple myself. They're great project guitars or beaters.

I totally agree with you. I would have loved to have began on a cheap guitar like they are made today. People don't understand how good they have it now. Cheers!

"Pile of lumber," 😂😂😂. But growing up in the 90s, anything under $499.00 was absolute garbage.

silverstreettalks343: I just went into detail in a comment similar to yours...such that what matters with electric guitars is the electronics, setup, playability & cosmetic appearance...and the core of the thing "be damned". And, in general, the only exception, in regard to all guitars, is with the top of acoustics (& probably any acoustic stringed instrument). I am pleased that most of the commenters here agree with us, with comments of, basically: (Sound quality, playability & durability is all that matters...). Frankly, just to prove a point, it was not worth it to destroy a couple of guitars that, at worst, could have been properly set up and donated to those who could not afford the instruments.

I worry more about fret wire materials and picks affecting tone more than the body wood.

​@@Nobody-11Byeah i think even just changing your strings would affect the tone more than the wood tbh lol

Frets might matter more but wood matters. If you have ever owned multiples of the same guutar type like a strat you would see that wood and how it matches adds to the quality of the tone. And I dont need to plug in a strat to buy I know when a strat has good resonance and the neck and body work together. If you just try a bunch of the same model at a shop you can feel this. But thats my expierence.

@@Airhead348 Sorry but standard pickups convert strings vibrating in a magnetic field to electricity. They don't respond to sound from the guitar body or the air. You are attributing tonal qualities to the resonance of wood, that derive from entirely different things, even with multiple models of the same guitar: Strings, intonation & setup, bridge & nut composition. Plus, electronic components (resistors, capacitors & "pots") have a tolerance compared to their nominal rating...typically 5-10%...so supposedly identical components in two different guitars will rarely actually be identical. Component manufacturers can't guarantee better than those tolerances for items that rarely cost more than $1.00 And NO-ONE pays the enormous price for precision rated components that are available for critical applications To prove this assertion wrong, you would have to do more than compare examples of the same supposedly identical guitar model: You would have to swap guitar bodies of different materials, while keeping EVERYTHING else identical, from neck to electronics to setup. Tonewoods matter with acoustic instruments, but not with solid body guitars. There are even guitars that, effectively, have no body....little more than a long neck with a bridge at one end, & tuning pegs at the other end, and they sound great. For that matter, I've seen a solid concrete guitar that also sounded good.

It was very pretty ):

Sad but just buy another one for $200, hardly breaking the bank for an affordable axe

It’s super cheap. There really isn’t any reason you couldn’t afford one, outside of some extreme handicap

Honestly, I never see guitars in the cool-to-warm purple burst color I love.. So I just learned to do it myself. No regrets. Make what you love, dude!

Lmao, kind of a hypocrite when it comes to giving a review, 😂

Chicago Electric angle grinder owner here. Yep - got about 45 seconds before it burst into flames.

I haven't had any Harbor Freight tools burst into flames......either the mechanicals fail first or they just quietly stop working, while getting rather warm. They usually work once. It's the second time that's a surprise.

Here we go, "cheap tools" comments since guitar myths have been busted!

😂

my old guitar teacher taught me that the expensive guitars are very consistently made, wether that’s good or bad. and the cheap ones are looser in their QA but it means you can score a blinder OR you can find a dud so you should just try them in the shop. and he’s right- i have a couple of €1000+ guitars but my first electric- a €120 squier strat is still my favourite thing to play, it feels fantastic.

I have an expensive PRS Custom 22 and an SE. About $2000 difference in price from the "same" manufacturer. I prefer the SE. The Custom is all that and a bag of chips but the SE is the whole meal lol. I also bought a Gibson Les Paul Standard back in the day and it was a real POS. Played nice and all but man did it look like crap when you took a close look. You would swear it was a cheap Chibson based on the finishing flaws. If I hadn't bought it from a reputable dealer I would have sworn I was ripped off.

i gotta cort x series that i love and ive had it for 20 yrs ...

Actually the lesson from that is that Gibson no longer make good guitars - this is well known amongst guitarists

A long time ago $200 was equal to $1,000 today. Inflation.

I have 2 plywood guitars that I quite like. They were both rebuilt though so components are great.

BUT MUH INVESTMUHNT

@@indifferentuniverse3991 That's actually the point. It's not the wood, it's the components.

You could have simply removed the pickup to see what is under the paint.

​@@seanfagan7384not as entertaining 😂

Mine from Sears 1963, in Amp hard case! Sound and playability- was great through any number of amps!

Plywood guitars are actually really useful depending on the make up. You can make your own composites to get some really interesting tone depending on how it travels through the material.

I started out the same myself with several Sears guitars, one that was even a no name but is a single coil strat style that is just as good as my other guitars. The real secret to great sound is in the processing. I've kept all my old cheap guitars because even they end up surprising me whenever I can get new FX pedals and processers to play them through.

​@@jonlangfittI have a plywood strat that resonates like hell. Its been one of my go to guitars since I was 18.

Got a 1994 Squire strat mik cort factory. Bought it off my mate in 95. Just set it all up again with new Wilkinson tuners strings fret polish and intonation set. Cheap 3 single coil pups pots and plywood body. Maple neck is actually brilliant with worn in frets butter to play and great tones. Love it no other guitar I’ve played sounds like it just love it

Safety first . . . 😂

Moms rock!

That point is so well made that some of it could be the advertising blurb on a cheap guitar! " One day, You'll be Proud to say my first guitar was a (insert name here). I still have my lefty Ibanez acoustic from 1977 and my heart still bleeds for the Ibanez Rick bass stolen from the shop in 1976 that I ordered but never got to play. I hurt over the Rickenbacker 4001 that I sold because we "needed the money". I now have a Benton Chickenbacker, a Benton 335, a lefty Variax 300 and rightly Variax 500. They will be worth thousands in about 30 years time!

Damn, doing the Vitto Bratta thing in 69...

The reason why those Silvertone guitars go for a lot of money is because they're collectible. Although the same can be said of vintage Gibson and Fender stuff, those are a bit different in my opinion. Unlike many things from that era, guitars from the late 50's into the late 70's were incredibly well-built. Because of this, musicians with a lot of money to throw around will spend big bucks for the feel of an old guitar - as well as a particular sound they may have heard on an old record. The same can't really be said for a Silvertone because they were never good guitars to begin with, but ironically some people (like Jack White for example) really love that "bad" sound. Vintage guitars are a rabbit hole that A TON of people get sucked into. My take on it is that if you're a really good musician making records and playing a lot, then it makes sense - just like any professional has the right tool for the job.

They're cheap because they require so few man-hours to produce, lol

@@TheDarkXn Less man/woman/child labour time, is that a bad thing? Most players set up their own guitar anyway.

@@TheDarkXn That is not the point. Materials wether cheap or not cost money.

​@@levinavio2297Not too much money, as of nowadays

Little wood glue and it's close enough to good as new.

Who is doing the snubbing of which you speak?

​@@richsackett3423Are you really trying to act like you don't know how insufferable Fender and Gibson fanboys can be? You know exactly the kind of person who snubs people for using cheap guitars. You probably know a few, yourself.

@@razztastic I've been playing music with other musicians for forty years with more one-offs than I care to remember. Hundreds and not one being weird about somebody else's gear. Anyone who's any good only pays superficial attention. "That weird thing's your ride? Cool." I've played auditions where they didn't notice I was playing fretless until I was putting it in the case. Can't find any "jazz snobs" either, fwiw.

​@@richsackett3423You know, I think what he is speaking of is way more prevalent in the online forum community than amongst musicians. I find lots of tone snobs online, but what I've encountered playing with other people is an attitude of "play what you got" or "play what you can afford".

@@darringalloway Makes total sense. I appreciate the explanation. You really can't be like around other musicians irl if you want to be asked back.

Nice one

I was going to ask Max to send them to me to repair and re-finish.... I like a project. But relics... you got a business idea there, mate!

I've been saying for a long time, "a lot of guys have no idea what their guitar sounds like, or their amp." IMO when they are running 97 effects, no matter the gear, they all sound exactly the same, like crap. And if there's two guys in a cover band, both using 97 effects, it escalates to absolute shit.

Yep, imagine how much better his career could have been if he used real wood for that guitar 😂🤣

I don't really understand the obsession with wood type on an electric guitar. On my acoustics i feel like the wood has great impact on the tone but on electric i generally have no clue what materials they've went with.

​@@braveheart4603 Same, I don't care about the tone difference with different wood. The only time I'd consider the wood type is for aesthetics lol

Funny thing is, Inyen Vina (IYV on the headstock) actually now makes a replica of Brian May’s Red Special! At around $300 used on Reverb, I may snatch it up in a moment of weakness! 🤣

@@jaybirdk7414 The body looks a little different from a real one. But looks pretty close. I picked up a replica years ago (can't remember brand). Slapped some Burns Tri-sonics in it and happy days.

That's a Harbor Freight special for sure

I have a Firefly LP guitar. Its made well. The binding Rocks. Love mine. Only thing id change would possibly the pickups. It's a good guitar for the money 👍✌️

Was….

​@@NoNameNo.5😂😂😂

​@@mikestroud9969how does it play? I'm not an LP fan at all but I've considered buying one of their other models but haven't done it.

@@MainPrism it plays well. Heavy like a Gibson. Neck is good. I was shocked how well it was put together.good guitar for the money buddy. Going to put some Seymour Duncan pearly gates pickups in it when I get enough money. You know bills uggh.

It's funny how this fake wood is made from real wood

​@@hemidart7 It is also funny that all these "tonewoods" were just cheapest and easiest to work woods Fender and Gibson could find in 50's to 70'a, and they magically all were the best wood for it for some reason!

Pallets are usually made from a pretty dense hardwood. Ask any truck driver.

Cant say for sure about the original Stingers but I still have my ST2 (Dinky body style,) that I modded in the 2010s, I cut off the sharp ends of the horns and turns out the body is made from MDF.

@@BatFan1 Martin stingers are made out of piano-grade plywood. It's a better than average manufactured tonewood. They are still just a cheap strat guitar, but the bodies are heavy and hard.

This explains why Taylor’s sound so bad. Tonewoods indeed are the lifeblood of the acoustic guitar. That, and neck joint design

I've come to opine that "tone wood" DOES exist... it's just that it entirely applies to necks & fretboards, not at all to bodies. This even includes aluminium necks which have a tone of their own. (This opinion is not set in stone and I'm open to the insight of others.)

That "kit" guitar, it speaks volumes he said he would not SELL it to someone he HATES.

@@treetopjones737Even so, the cheapo could have been worked on. But *_I really don't care that he cut both of them up,_* I'm just saying that if he wasn't into making videos for this and if he had tools to do it, the fret ends could have been trimmed back and anything else could have been fixed with the right time, tools, and educated effort.

it breaks my heart to see this youtube star, cutting a perfectly good guitar, i don't know who he thinks he are, cutting a perfectly goooooood guitar.

How many extension cords were you using with small guage wire ? That'll burn it up.

@@firebald2915 1. Either 50' or 100'. I don't recall.

@nellayema2455 I'm not busting on ya, but under powered electrical equipment will burn up rather quickly. They design them to work properly at x amount of amps or they just get hot enough to melt. If you had a 15+ Amp cord at 100 ft it looses 5 Amp to operate a 15 Amp tool. So the tool is getting 10 amps and that's not enough to operate properly. Hence, it got hot and melted the windings on the motor. Good thing Harbor Freight stuff is inexpensive. But heavier extension cords are not. BTW, I've done the same thing you did and burnt up a $500.oo air compressor. Use longer air hoses. Oops! Hahaha

@@firebald2915 The other 2 non-Harbor Freight saws didn't fry under the same circumstances. I've run a number of saws and drills using the same cord and never had one fry.

Maybe you should cut apart that HF saw to dispel the myth that they are junk.

One of my favourite guitars (I have 11) is a cheap Squire Stratocaster that I bought when I was working in Saudi Arabia for 8 months. I REALLY needed a guitar to bide my time, and that's the only guitar the music shop even had. The paint job was atrocious (I've left it that way, 'cos the drip lines are fantastic for the memory of it all) and I had to file the frets so they'd stop cutting my fingers. I strongly suspect it is counterfeit because even the cheapest Squires I see at home don't have paint streaks. When I got back home, I replaced the pickups with old Charvelle pickups a friend gave me, and now it's a serious shredding beast. I use that guitar a lot, and it sounds amazing! Oh, and I scalloped it, because why not? (All my electrics are scalloped btw... only my bass, acoustics, and ukes are not)

get a cheap guitar and put a little money into a decent amp & pedals and you can have a lot of fun spending as much as you would for just the guitar for some big brands

So all cheap guitars are made of real wood because of this video?

And ear protection. Reciprocating saws are quite loud. Foam ear plugs at Home Depot/Lowe's are super cheap.

Do what I say not what I do! ,\m/. \m/

Goggles for a sawzall? It's too loud? Stop

I’ve seen too many idiots at work hurt themselves with a recip saw, this video gave me anxiety! Holding it with one hand fuck me!! You’re already destroying it just put it in a vice!

Ears, too. Musician. Hearing. Hello?

And almost any defect or deficiency can be fairly easily fixed.

@@jeffbosch1697 Within reason, agree, but if the neck is twisted it can be a problem not easily fixed and can take the kind of effort and expertise that would make it not worth fixing.

@@ericmills9839 Well, I did say "almost". 😁 I should probably clarify that I wasn't referring to damage but to deficiency in the guitar design or manufacturing.

@@jeffbosch1697 LOL, I say it from experience. My first acoustic was a cheap Ibanez and it developed a twist. Was a goner at that point, as it would have cost more to get it fixed than get a new one!

@@ericmills9839 I can relate. Back about 30 years ago I spent the money to have my acoustic six and twelve strings set up. Man, they just about played themselves. Then I moved to Arizona in the summer. Tweak!! Both guitars twisted and became decorations.

Times have changed, old man. (Joking)

@@blacklikethesun go extreme or go home lol

My first guitar (1990 Hohner ST Special) also was a plywood body and also was ridiculously loud and resonant unplugged! 😂

@72Dodge340. I bought a neck and some parts from a guy for a Jackson and he had a Platinum series BC Rich he had taken apart to refinish and saw the body was plywood so he lost interest and basically threw it in with the deal for the parts just to get it out of the way. Just recently I refinished the body and put all new electronics a good humbucker I had and got it together. last week finished the set up and I was blown away how good it sounds hahaha, and like yours this body is quite resonant to. Kinda goes against what you'd think. Plywood body should not sound this good, but it does. Damn thing got a spot on one of my daily player wall hangers .

It's incredible. I got a 350€ guitar that is just like a 1500€ guitar. Had name brand PAFs too... 200-400€ today is a real sweet spot for incredible instruments. I want to try a cheap Jackson Rhoads next.

I have a cheap guitar from the 80s that is half the thickness of my other electric guitar, but it weighs more than twice as much....no way in heck it is wood unless it is some super heavy rare wood....it still plays fine though.

Nothing wrong with plywood guitars. I had a couple that sounded incredible.

I have a plywood Korean Squire from the late 80's early 90's...not a thing wrong with it. Though it is one of the heaviest Strat types that I've played.

Yep I commented above that I have a 70s Harmony solidbody that's straight up laminated plywood, and it legit sounds amazing. Feels awful but that's due to the atrocious neck, which is solid wood.

My first electric guitar was a plywood Hohner Les Paul copy. I played that for 5 years before I bought my Gibson. It was a really good first guitar.

Also like a car...economies of scale matter. Its more expensive to make the metal/electronic work than the wood slabs on an assembly line.

Tonewood only applies to speaker cabinets anyway.

@@dionr1168 In all fairness, tonewood became a thing because of ACOUSTIC guitars- where the wood of the soundbox IS the speaker and cabinet combined. Of COURSE that would have a notable effect. But once you go electric and the signal is generated by magnetic pickups, yep- you can make the body out of concrete if you want, it's the speaker cab and speaker that make the sound.

​@@dionr1168even at that, the rest of the cab's material is trivial compared to the speaker baffle

Thumbs up for the Service Merchandise reference!

The tone-wood debate (with regards to guitars) is like the pre-amp tube debate. It will never end. Your knock-off guitar sounds like it has tons of character. Such guitars are what defines who we are.

In the early 2000's, I had a small luthier business in Houston. Some of the "pawn shop specials" that people brought in for repairs were made of what I could only describe as dense cardboard. It appeared to be granular like particle board, but it would flake apart in layers where damaged. The worst I ever saw was a SG clone made from a one-inch thick piece of Low-Density Fiberboard. Thankfully, the manufacturers stopped doing that stuff sometime after the 2000ish timeframe.

I learned on a Harmony acoustic f hole guitar that was given to my older brother for Christmas by our parents around 1970!

My Squier Strat that I've been playing for 30 years is plywood, plays well, stays in tune, though I did swap the pups for Fender Noiseless.

@@coop1311 If it actually was, they are not made that way now. Squier has contract with Fender to make Fender copies using their design.

@@treetopjones737 it's not the stuff you'd put in an attic, but it's clearly plywood. They stopped using plywood around 1996.

I have both, the expensive ones really just look nicer, with few exceptions (PLEK'd Necks cost money for example) . Some people will never admit it. Sometimes it's a feeling, but you can't hear that feeling back in the recorded mix. It's like the emperor's new clothes. I do get inspired to play different things on different guitars, so I guess there is that aspect. I have found that I prefer different ones at different times. It's certainly never always the more expensive ones and sometimes it is the cheapest ones. Lately I have been preferring my PRS SE to my Custom 24, I'll be damned if I can hear the difference between the nitrocellulose and poly, or whether the pickups were wound in Stephensville, MD or somewhere in South Korea.

@@PeterThibault I have had great cheapo pickups sometimes. Then there are the China squealers I bought a few years back. They sound great low volume and recorded but turn up to play with a band and OUCH! High pitched feedback is so strong it hurt my ears worse than a loud concert! They came out new higher money ones went in and issue is solved... except for the one that is a PAF non-potted which still feeds back way less. I would also say that after I set up and level the frets on a cheaper guitar they usually sound just as good if not better than the ones that cost thousands more. They always play better lol. Why would I spend thousands on a Gibson that plays worse than my $300 China guitar that I put better metal parts on and spent under $1000 on total?!? The obvious answer is I would not.

I’m the opposite. I always found paying cents on the dollar to the worker making the same product, just overseas, to be pretty unethical. We consumers rely on it, and the companies don’t really have a choice if they want to stay competitive. However, if you have the money to buy a guitar that has actual labor cost, it’s a nobrainer for me

@@Nadezi I couldn't agree more. When I said I like cheap guitars I did not take this BIG issue into consideration, which makes me blush to be honest. But on the other hand, sometimes I wonder if we are not paying more just for the logo stamped on the headstock, got it?

Hear the same thing in the gun world. Barrels, Trigger mechanisms, the type of steel the bolt is made from, tolerances... If the gun is cheap it's made from inferior materials, Blah blah blah. Might be true but also might be made in a country with cheaper labor and cost of material.

Hate usually means jealous. But not always. But can be. Depends what we are hating.

But but but man nothing there are always a faster rat. I wish I could get guitar's like what you can get today for these prices. It was a real struggle as a young kid.

Youust definitely own a cheap guitar lol too bad.

I’ve seen one or two on the used market. Looked like lovely firewood.

I bought one from Cash America pawn shop. It was a nice guitar 😊 I sold it at Guitar Center.

I had a Harmony that was okay wood when I cut into for a mod. It still played and sounded fine 🤷🏽‍♂️

I have seen one. It was kinda nice actually, felt good and played well. I believe it way not have had a truss rod but it was a long time ago...

You can glue together multiple 3/8"/18mm sheets to get a 1.5"/36mm sheet, just takes a lot of clamps and weight. Or make it semihollow like a Danelectro reissue, and use Masonite/hardboard for the back and top.

That wasn't Gibson's first go-round with composite bodies, their Kalamazoo line from the late 60s was made out of the same material Kohler used back then to make toilet seats

Well, the Sonex actually has a solid wood core with an outer layer of resin. I have one as well. Its a crudely made guitar but a great player. Looks cool too IMO :)

I reckon he went to the Creech and Chong music school and plays with a monkey wrench

Plywood is still 'real wood', just not 'solid' wood, & it doesn't even necessarily sound bad. I had a beautiful looking 'garbage starter' Ibanez RX20 (??) or something with 'agatis' whatever plywood body & sounded like maple = nasal & hard = it was a 'thing' (mahogany is way better). It didn't 'lack sustain' or 'character' = sounded like maple. Softer plywoods likely get a similar thing going, like maybe mahogany plywood sounds similar 2 regular mahogany? Interesting 2 test this =) It's 2 bad with all the literally billions of dollars spent in the guitar industry nobody bothers 2 do actual research like this =P It would B so E Z = like get a REAL (good sounding) tube amp & alnico II pickups, then cut the same body shape with various different woods & test the sounds =D Even 'Mr. Guitar Max' could do it! =D I don't bother 'researching' it myself because I already know mahogany wood with alnico II pickups is the best for guitar from the 'well known' choices, but maybe there R some 'similar' woods that sound even BETTER than mahogany 4 the mids & highs? & no, korina sounds worse =P Less 'murRROOOWWwww' 2 it =(

@@Deathrape-if4kl I'm well aware, my main axe is an Epi LP Special, plywood body. It was just the fact you could see the ply laminations through the finish.