Think a $2k guitar is made with premium wood?

[GnLguy]

Tom Delonge Strat Is stripped of its paint to reveal its “premium” wood. What this guy found will surprise many of you and its the reason that I prefer a guitar that is stained instead of painted.

[Mark H]

As Reagan was fond of saying while negotiating nuclear disarmament, “Trust, but verify”. Ironically, or maybe not, it’s an old Russian proverb.

[San Luis Rey]

I prefer nitro cellulose lacquer to polyurethane also Keith. G&L Fullerton and Fender are using Alder or Roasted Pine on their american made guitar bodies. The American Pro 2 is painted. You have to move up to the Ultra or custom shop to get ash and lacquer. No wonder the old vintage guitars cost so much!

Mike

[Duffy P]

The multi piece construction would make the guitar more structurally stable, not less. More likely to get cracks in the finish from a one piece sonstruction. Much more likely to get warping. If the guitar is painted and the grain is not visible, then whether the wood is “premium” or not is almost irrelevant. Moreover, larger companies simply don’t grade their woods according to sound quality. There might be some small shop luthiers making acoustic, arch top or classical guitars who do this.

But for the most part, the whole wood quality thing for solid body electric guitars is simply marketing, and there are no differences of sound quality between the bodies of different painted guitars that any buyer would be able to determine.

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