What is the best tonal woods for a guitar?

Answer 1

Well the best wood for the top is solid Spruce, with very straight and tight grain. Then for the back and sides maple is usually the best, maple comes in different grain patterns such as flamed, birdseye, and straight grained, I personal like the sound of flamed maple. Then for your Tailpiece and pegs you have a choice, the best woods are ebony and rosewood, but there are other good woods also, such as snakewood and boxwood. My favorite wood though is snakewood because it is just as hard as ebony but it is a light color wood that looks like snake skin, not dought its unique. Then for your fingerboard you also have two choices ebony and rosewood. Then the best wood for your nut is ebony because of being so hard. Now for sound ebony, snakewood, and boxwood all have a very loud and impresive sound, but if you want a mellow yet well rounded sound you want rosewood. But always stay away from those metal alloy or plastic tailpieces, they have a very metallic sound and make the cello sound worse, so nomatter what use all wood. Now for the bridge, the bridge is always made of maple, but this is something that you can't go cheap on. The cheap bridges are cut all wrong and came have many inperfections causing worp and/or breakage. Expensive bridges are made better and usually have better sound projection. Now just as a word of advice solid wood is always better than laminate wood.

Answer 2

There are many woods that make for great electric Guitars:

Alder, used in most fenders, is a wood with great tonal balance. It has solid low and present mids and highs.

Poplar is very similar in tone to alder, but it is often considered a lesser wood because of the gray-ish aspect of its grain.

Basswood, is another cheaper wood that is featured on many instrument, not only cheap ones. Many high end Ibanez guitars are made from it. It's tone lends more emphasis on the mids

Swamp ash, used on high end fenders and many premium guitars, is often considered a premium wood. On top of its beautiful grain, it features bright, yet sweet highs, relaxed mids and and solid lows. Swamp ash is not to be confused with northern hard ash.

Mahogany is the wood used on most Gibson type guitars, and it is known for its warm tone. It has huge, but not tight lows, strong low mid, espically low mids, and smooth highs

Maple is a less common wood, used by players who are looking for a bright tone. It has strong high mids, snappy highs and very tight lows.

These are the many tone woods found on Electric Guitar. Of course, there are many possiblities of combinasion of these wood, one being mahagany body with a maple top. In this case the guitar's tone is based on the wood of the body, and the top adds a hint of its own tone.