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Has anyone tried a guitar with a paulownia wood body?
I'm having back problems so wanted a lighter guitar, and also something to do. so with all the parts I already have, i bought an unfinished paulownia strat body. When it arrived I thought it was an empty box, it was so light.
I thought there might be a problem with screws not holding, so I glued in mahogany dowels where the trem block and trem claw screws go, so they should be fine. I've put a strat maple neck on and pickups fom an 80's jap strat, locking tuners and all the other bits I already had.
It sounds really nice, quite bright accousticly but no different to my other stats when played through a valve amp. And it's light, very light.
It's only cost me the price of the body, and its saved my aching back.

Dave

Yes indeed I can vouch for that as I bought an unfinished Precision Bass body and Telecaster Bass neck and put together a '51 Precision style bass.
It's extremely light and plays and sounds great.

How are the bridge screw holding up Dave.? There's a fair bit of tension in those bass strings, have you had to do any strengthening. ?

Dave

Roger Childs of the Watford Club, rocky on this site, used to bring his own home-made Stratalike to meetings. It looked good, sounded great and weighed very little. He’d built it from balsa wood!

Quote : Dave Robinson
Yes indeed I can vouch for that as I bought an unfinished Precision Bass body and Telecaster Bass neck and put together a '51 Precision style bass.
It's extremely light and plays and sounds great.

Hi Dave, I bought the Squier CV '50s P. Bass in butterscotch a few years ago, when they were first issued. I just like that '50s vibe that it represents. I've never regretted it. It has a Pine body with contours. It is remarkably lightweight & sounds absolutely great for a bass with one single coil & Vol. & Tone controls.
Sorry if I interrupted the thread.

Tony.

I have a new 'strat' that has a really lightweight alder body, and it's resonant as all hell!! It is by far the lightest guitar I've ever owned, but it sustains like crazy. OFR, maple/maple neck, bolt on ... sorry, no tone or volume controls, just a kill switch.

Warmoth sells chambered Strat bodies which are 25% lighter than usual ones.

https://www.warmoth.com/ordering/chambe ... antee.aspx

Didier