Tonewood V MDF "the Poll"

[randomguitarist]

Next you can cut them up and glue them back together to see if it matters whether or not the guitar is made of one piece of MDF.

Good test, thanks for doing it.

 

[River]

See if Lee dies in some horrible guitar related accident

Will MDF necks support the stresses of an electric guitar, Or will Lee be ripped in half in a shower of Glue laiden sawdust and guitar strings, or will Lee simply pass away coughing and weazing connected to life support from the exposre to carcinogins in MDF.

Yer crackin' me up, Lee.

Thanks for all this.

 

[slapshot]

forgot about this was reminded by a post elsewhere from the creek about it.
has the answer been given yet?

 

[mdubya]

Well, I was right that guitar A was the MDF guitar.

That said, one of my favorite guitars, if not my absolute favorite, is a plywood guitar, the ES 335, closely followed by some other semi and fully hollowbodied plywood guitars. I don't feel less of a man for these preferences.

 

[nicudeemus1]

Wow I got it right! More of guess though, they all sounded good.

 

[Murkar]

Working with MDF I'll give my vote on B for death by dust lol

Thanks so much for putting out the effort to do this Lee, fantastic experiment

 

[fatdaddypreacher]

uhhh, it seems as though lee has entirely too much spare time, but glad he's sharing some of it with us.

 

[fumblefinger]

OK Lee, when this shows up on the Martin thread you know you'll have to build an MDF acoustic, a sapelle acoustic, a.....

 

[dbtk44]

OK Lee, when this shows up on the Martin thread you know you'll have to build an MDF acoustic, a sapelle acoustic, a.....

I'm actually pretty curious what an MDF hollow-body would sound like. Maybe the back and sides are made from MDF, and a spruce/maple/redwood/whatever-traditional-wood top...

Maybe even a semi-hollowbody, ES-175 style, 335 style, etc...kind of an intriguing proposition

 

[upl8tr]

I'm actually pretty curious what an MDF hollow-body would sound like. Maybe the back and sides are made from MDF, and a spruce/maple/redwood/whatever-traditional-wood top...

I think you'll find Martin make these already...

 

[ihavenofish]

I think you'll find Martin make these already...

martin used mdf? link?

 

[dbtk44]

I think you'll find Martin make these already...

Hmmm..you got my attention now! I did a google search on Martin Guitars+MDF but didn't find anything really, but that isn't all that conclusive of course.

When did Martin use MDF on their guitars?

 

[ihavenofish]

Hmmm..you got my attention now! I did a google search on Martin Guitars+MDF but didn't find anything really, but that isn't all that conclusive of course.

When did Martin use MDF on their guitars?

i suspect hes refering to masonite, which is of course not mdf. no glue in masonite and its really hard and heavy.

 

[dbtk44]

Ahhhh...ok that would actually make sense. Masonite seems like it would make an excellent back and sides. Maybe even a top? I'd like to mess with it some though, very inexpensive and easy to obtain.

 

[upl8tr]

Hmmm..you got my attention now! I did a google search on Martin Guitars+MDF but didn't find anything really, but that isn't all that conclusive of course.

When did Martin use MDF on their guitars?

I was joking or being naughty to be precise. Hence the ( )

The X SERIES of guitars have backs and sides that are constructed of patented high-pressure laminate (HPL) and then joined to a solid Sitka spruce to make the guitar.

This ^ has led to all sorts of fall-outs in the acoustic guitar forums because they still cost as much or more than instruments with solid rosewood back and sides.

Sorry for any confusion.

 

[upl8tr]

i suspect hes refering to masonite, which is of course not mdf. no glue in masonite and its really hard and heavy.

Interesting tone to take regarding a post that was a very obvious joke?

But hey; whatever.

 

[renthepen]

The outcome of this experiment is very enlightening. Thank you Lee1964.

The next experiment should be MDF vs HDF

 

[ChrisW]

Or even an MDF body with an HDF cap?

 

[ihavenofish]

Interesting tone to take regarding a post that was a very obvious joke?

But hey; whatever.

tone? nah, masonite's tone isnt interesting.

 

[dbtk44]

I was joking or being naughty to be precise. Hence the ( )

The X SERIES of guitars have backs and sides that are constructed of patented high-pressure laminate (HPL) and then joined to a solid Sitka spruce to make the guitar.

This ^ has led to all sorts of fall-outs in the acoustic guitar forums because they still cost as much or more than instruments with solid rosewood back and sides.

Sorry for any confusion.

Ok gotcha. Id see having some issues with the cost. Any idea if they sounded good?

Believe it or not, once upon a time aluminium was worth more than gold..