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Cheap, plentiful and many uses, notably in Europe the carver's wood of preference. The Wikipedia entry is very good and worth reading.
As a tonewood it does a fine job. Add Jeff Beck to the list of high profile players using it. His no 1 live Strat of some 20 years now has a basswood body.
I'm pretty sure the Charvel Guthrie Govan is Basswood.
He can play a bit.
Your friend is wrong.
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Ibanez and the other Japanese companies used basswood as it was cheap and easy to get hold of in that part of Asia.
No thoughts on tone, just what wood was the easiest to get hold of in large quantities in that region.
But saying "it wasn't chosen for tone" does not mean it has none.
Basswood is fine.
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I'm not even sure he was right!
It could really be argued that the differences in sound are mainly due to the pickups.
Ive three mahogany PRS all with different neck combinations and I couldn't tell the difference listening to them.
I still prefer the maple neck ones over the rosewood though and I honestly think that's due to the fact when I only owned one guitar it had a maple neck so for 8 years that's all I played and something feels right for me.
I could also have shit ears.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFyQXy74xz4
Non wood guitars can sound awesome. Some sound similar, some sound different.
Everything affects tone.... Don't go down the rabbit hole
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