Science

In this section I hope to objectively document the effects of changing a single aspect of stringed instrument construction at a time. It can be easy to assume that two guitars sound different because they have different woods, or strings, or pickups, or whatever. Much of this is likely true, but given that most guitars have many differences all at once, it's hard to know how much each variable contributes to the instrument's sound unless you change one thing at a time and hear what differences it makes.

To make matters simpler and more objective, I will do a series of experiments where I change one variable at a time (e.g. wood type, scale length, neck joint type, etc.). This will allow us to pinpoint the influence that variable has. The best way to do this would be to test changing one variable across tons of real guitars since you could plug them in and intuitively compare their sound to what you already are familiar with, but that would be ridiculously expensive so I will use models instead.

Here are the variables I hope to test:

Wood:

Frets: Strings: Other Stuff: