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Actually, I concluded modern build is generally better. You won't catch me paying through the nose for an all original guitar (which is the vintage market - Nout to do with how good said guitar actually is).
But I do think finish affects tone. When I stripped my Sg and redid it in poly (but thin) it was louder acoustically and less muddy through an amp. It still sounded pretty naff! But it did change, to the point where my dad noticed it.
There was a myth buster thing recently where a shop recorded the same thing using the same pickups etc but in 2 bodies. They concluded the wood made no difference...
But the evidence (spectrum analyser) actually proved otherwise - they just chose to ignore the evidence, or they don't know how the decibel scale worked. Some frequencies were 3-6db louder in one than the other, and that equals a doubling or tripling of volume at a human audible frequency.
Yet they ignored it. I suspect they just don't know how the db scale works.
Now admittedly we're all old farts, but we're all pretty poor, not one of us anywhere near the national average wage, but that's five pre-CBS Fenders in one draughty barn in mid-Wales, all getting used and abused as Leo intended.
One interesting point about quality though, every one of 'em sounds exactly like you'd hope they would, as to be fair, has every modern Custom Shop relic I've tried. It's not magic, it's just about design and materials, and it can (and is) still being done today.
Fast forward 20 years and it's got newer threats in the East as Japan is undergoing financial issues (that we can probably expect their successors to have learnt from and avoid) at this point the solution is to increase production costs (because it still can't do much about labour costs) but attempt to discredit their competitors more?
No - we would head for 1972, Leeds or Manchester maybe.
You would all notice that the guitar shops had several Fender Jazzmasters and Jaguars from the previous decade hung on the wall. The first shock would be that nobody had bought them despite the ridiculous low price tags (and I mean low for 1972). The second shock would be that they are all covered in dust - completely ignored. That is how unloved those guitars were.
:O)
http://www.award-session.com/pdfs/Why do many old guitars sound mellower than new ones.pdf
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
@UnclePsychosis great references there
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