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The pickups, pots, and caps have the most effect on tone on a electric guitar. The body wood to a lesser effect. I have seen electric guitars that don't sound very good acoustically but sound amazing plugged in. On the flipside I have played guitars that really sound good acousticly that were...

The 4 most important components of tone... Your left and right hands and your two ears. Dickey Betts sounded like dickey Betts on strats, les pauls, SG's, hollow bodies, you name it. Same with Stevie Ray he sounded almost the same on any guitar he played. A lot of tone is in the touch...

They do a blind test. *snare drum rimshot* Amazingly they always seem to pick the darker fretboard guitars in the blind text (according to CNN) Lol

Man, that's a cool guitar!

Very unique voice. Kind of the way George Martin recorded and mixed Paul McCartneys guitar on "Blackbird". I realize it's 2 completely different Instruments, but the sound is simular to my ears.

Well, that's my story am I'm stickin' to it! Lol

Maple fretboards are bright. That's why almost every country guitar picker that wants that snap, for chicken pickin' style lead guitar work, had a maple fretboard guitar (90% of the time a telecaster)

I've looked at pics of them, with the binding or the nut removed and the top layer is thicker than the bottom. I figured that was for more meat to sand if you needed to sand the board. I figured a refret should work, but there are guys on the les paul forums who say it's gonna need the old...

Hey Scott, I got worried about the les paul I'm having shipped to me because I was mistaken about it being a 2012. Started reading stuff on the internet about the 2012 having sandwiched 2 piece rosewood fretboards because the feds confiscated gibson's rosewood in an August 2012 raid. I was...

Hey, I resemble that remark! :)

:laughings: That's good to know! I read on the internet that a darker board also makes you play much better and actually looks worth a sh!t to boot.

One of the most amazing products I have used on fretboards is Old English dark furniture scratch repair. You can take those light anemic looking modern rosewood fretboards and take a q-tip, wipe it on, let it sit a while, and then wipe it off, and the results are stunning. All the grain nuances...

I was talking about Clapton when he was with John Mayall and the blues breakers. The album where the cover showed Clapton reading a magazine that had "Beano". It's nicknamed the beano album, even though that isn't the albums title. Clapton played a '59 burst through a Marshall on that album and...

That's where the vintage Japanese LP copies, as good as they are, fall short. The customs have rosewood boards

Amazing guitar Scott! Must be a trip having Travis playing it in that iconic video.

Johnny winter was a HUGE influence on me. I was s total Johnny Winter freak in my formative guitar playing years. He set the benchmark extreamy high IMO. There was no internet or instructional videos back then. A vinyl record and knowing a guitarist that would show you something was the best you...

Ditto on Hendrix and the strat. Fender was ready to kill the stratocaster line before Hendix hit the scene. The rest is history. Fender should pay the hendrix family royalties from stratocaster sales. Lol

Eric Clapton gets a lot of credit for putting the '59 les paul burst on the map. He wanted a les paul because Freddie King played one. Only thing is that Freddie King's les paul was a P-90 gold top. Les Paul's were hard to come by in England at the time and Clapton had to "settle" for a...

I'm a total Allen Collins fan. The live version of "Freebird" on the Lynyrd Skynyrd's live album "one more from the road" is arguably the most icon rock guitar solo in history. Allen played Explorers and Firebirds, with a strat thrown in on some tunes. Allen always strapped on the Explorer for...

TV yellow special! Don't get much more 50's vibe that that. Is the fretboard ebony or dark rosewood? Seems like most of the modern rosewood fretboards have that pale tan color.