Tone wood

Is olive wood a good tone wood? I love the grain and would love to save some money up and get a body built from one.

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Is olive wood a good tone wood? I love the grain and would love to save some money up and get a body built from one.

not that I know of.... maybe it would make a good unfinished neck, it looks oily and durable

did you do a google search?

A little bit but all the things I've read on forums are inconclusive mainly people that have never heard of it being used in guitars but did see an acoustic built from it

A little bit but all the things I've read on forums are inconclusive mainly people that have never heard of it being used in guitars but did see an acoustic built from it

typically you don't want oily or waxy woods as guitar bodies, particularly acoustic or semi-acoustic instruments

so maybe olive wood just looks waxy/oily in that picture.... honestly, spalted maple has a similar swirly quality thanks to the spalty grain and maple is an old school tonewood for electric guitars....

honestly, as much as wood species effects tone I feel like choosing nice, resonat pieces of wood of any suitable species is what makes a good guitar... that's why I shop around a long time for mass produced guitars. No one at the Gibson Nashville plant is sitting and tone testing the mahogany blanks or mating them to a neck with a tuning fork..... you need to play a pile of them to find one where the odds worked in your favor and produced a superior guitar at a mediocre guitar price point..... literally took me years to find an SG at a good price that met my standard (ugh, no pun intended)

Yeah never heard of it so maybe not a good sign, but it does look like a decent neck wood. If you're gonna build a guitar a guitar I'd invest in decent well known, reliable woods like swamp ash, or mahogany.

I would say it feels pretty oily actually. There was this egg holder thing in tk max made from olive wood which game me the whole idea. the wood just looks awesome to me haha. I like the look of spalted maple and ash burl too. Maybe I'll stick with Mahogany as thats by far my favourite wood followed by swamp ash but I don't own anything made out of swamp ash, just played peoples guitars that have swamp ash bodies

Maybe I'll stick with mahogany, always wanted a mahogany strat body with a quilted top and back routed :P

Maybe I'll stick with mahogany, always wanted a mahogany strat body with a quilted top and back routed :P

there are plenty of exotic woods with interesting tonal properties and awesome grain

but mahogany is a good allaround wood for building guitars, makes a heavy strat and seems to be better suited to a glue in neck than bolt on usually, at least to my ear... Jeff Beck lieks basswood because its super lightweight and has a similar frequency response to a similarly sized piece of mahogany(though it isn't particularly attractive or durable if dropped)

a friend of mine owned a mahogany strat that never quite sounded as nice as my alder one even though his was an ostensibly better model... I really like swamp ash for strats too and should build one like that, maybe all to 54 spec with the alnico 3 pickups too....

nah

The Heavier, the better.

If you want exotic woods, I would suggest going with mahogany in the very least. Some burls, purple heart, blood wood, bubinga, wenge, or zebrawood.

I had a chat, with a friend of mine, who works for a company that supplies various guitar companies, that I can't name, and apparently olive is very popular with basses, but is used for guitars as well