My 1994 Epiphone Les Paul has a secret ...

[Scotty477]

Ah, good :D Chances are my Charvel just had a cr@p bit of basswood then.

That and possibly the fact that the basswood in the LP will be almost 2 inches thick and have a maple or perhaps alder cap will help a lot with the tone.

If it is indeed basswood. I'm more looking at the view that it will be Indonesian mahogany - unless proven otherwise. A giveaway is the weight of the guitar. When compared side by side the difference in weight between my mahogany LP and basswood one is easy to feel.

[Henk]

Tom has 'PC speaker' hearing syndrome  :lol:

Basswood is by no means a bad sort of tonewood, there are however bad guitars with basswood bodies. Basswood has similar properties as Alder and Ash, it is not for nothing it is used.

The fact that its a cheap wood doesnt perse make it bad, like poplar, which is cheap too, can sound great if used in a well build guitar.

The only thing i dislike about basswood is that if you dig in deep into the strings the dynamics seem to just fail. This however is great for harder rock or metal in which it is rather an unwanted aspect to have too much dynamics or whatever since it will only make it sound less tight really.

Well unless you dont like tight and all of that, anyway, just 2 cents, dont mind me really *ducks* :lol: