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