Can you improve a guitar made of indian cedro?

[Vlad89]

I have a Jackson JS20 Dinky. It's a cheap guitar, but I like it and would love to upgrade it in the future: replace the stock tuners with locking tuners, replace the stock tremolo with a good vintage tremolo that doesn't break easily (Maybe a Wilkinson) and ofcourse replace the stock pickups with a HD bridge and Irish Tour single coils. But this guitar is made of indian cedro and I'm not really sure whether or not that is a good wood, because I have a Line Spider II and I never played the guitar through a tube amp. Is Indian cedro a bad-sounding wood? Would it be worth upgrading this guitar in the future? Is it similar to alder in sound?

[noodleplugerine]

I have a Jackson JS20 Dinky. It's a cheap guitar, but I like it and would love to upgrade it in the future: replace the stock tuners with locking tuners, replace the stock tremolo with a good vintage tremolo that doesn't break easily (Maybe a Wilkinson) and ofcourse replace the stock pickups with a HD bridge and Irish Tour single coils. But this guitar is made of indian cedro and I'm not really sure whether or not that is a good wood, because I have a Line Spider II and I never played the guitar through a tube amp. Is Indian cedro a bad-sounding wood? Would it be worth upgrading this guitar in the future? Is it similar to alder in sound?

Only you can say if it sounds good or bad. If it resonates nicely, and has a good unplugged sound, then its down the pickups how it sounds through an amp.

I think its fair to say that all woods have distinctive tones, but there I'm sure there is probably rubies in every rough - I bet there's a slab of agathis out there which resonates like a whale's esophagus.

[Vlad89]

I have a Jackson JS20 Dinky. It's a cheap guitar, but I like it and would love to upgrade it in the future: replace the stock tuners with locking tuners, replace the stock tremolo with a good vintage tremolo that doesn't break easily (Maybe a Wilkinson) and ofcourse replace the stock pickups with a HD bridge and Irish Tour single coils. But this guitar is made of indian cedro and I'm not really sure whether or not that is a good wood, because I have a Line Spider II and I never played the guitar through a tube amp. Is Indian cedro a bad-sounding wood? Would it be worth upgrading this guitar in the future? Is it similar to alder in sound?

Only you can say if it sounds good or bad. If it resonates nicely, and has a good unplugged sound, then its down the pickups how it sounds through an amp.

I think its fair to say that all woods have distinctive tones, but there I'm sure there is probably rubies in every rough - I bet there's a slab of agathis out there which resonates like a whale's esophagus.

Well, it does sound kind of good unplugged, but, as far as I know, modelling amps like Line6 Spider tend to mask the tone of guitar woods.