Re: back to Kleins / body woods

[Martin Shellard <martins@pwdu.demon.co.uk>]

Yes! Yes! This would be a great idea.
I've always had a passion for very thin/light bodied solid guitars like
Fender Mustangs and Gibson Firebirds and SGs. Sonically they sound very
dynamic and "snappy" with a little trade-off in the harmonic density. They
can sound "plain" to some people but not to me.
Compared to say a Les Paul with a dense mahogany body and maple top the LP
will have a smoother transient and richer harmonic content but will lose
some of the "snap and snarl" factor. Heavy guitars sound more restrained 
and
polite to my ears. 
I have found that a denser body tends to compress the difference in level
between the strings making it more even string to string both level wise 
and
timbrally.
I have never noticed a big difference in sustain between heavy and light
guitars. 
Interestingly I recently played a friend's beautiful sounding, original '57
Les Paul and compared to modern day LPs it was as light as a feather. I did
some research and found out that Gibson used much less dense wood in the
50's than they do now, which I believe is a big part of the early LPs great
sound.
What body wood were you thinking of having? I'm waiting for my Klein to be
built, I ordered solid Alder for the reasons I listed above, I wanted 
snappy
attack and sustain for days, Lorenzo made the suggestion.



Martin Shellard 


> From: "Luca" <lucafeed@tin.it>
> Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 00:09:39 +0100
> To: "Loop" <Loopers-delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Subject: back to Kleins / body woods
> Resent-From: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Resent-Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 18:23:51 -0500
> 
> Going back to Kleins (also if the concept can be viewed on all solid 
>bodies),
> does anyone know how the light weight of the body affects : 
>dynamic,harmonic
> response and content, and general balance of the sound ?
> I am considering the idea to have a very light bodied (no chambers) 
>Klein.
> 
> Thanks
> Luca.
>