tot_Ou_tard
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I've been bonding with my Godin SD. The neck is fantastic & the body & neck vibrate while playing.
It's an HSS strat-style, but with a few twists
1) It got a Gibby style short-scale.
2) The body is Silver leaf maple with poplar wings.
You would think it'd be bright with the maple body, but according to Godin the silver leaf maple is similar to mahogany in terms of tone & indeed the neck pup is warm & bluesy. The bridge humbucker, however, is bright in a good way. You can get a nice country sound on it or in tandem with the middle single coil if you wish.
The poplar is to lighten the ax as the silver leaf maple is heavy.
The Gibby scale makes it incredibly easy to bend & it plays like the proverbial butter. It has a nice low end.
It doesn't do some of the things that strats do, but it really isn't one & I don't wish that it was. It does it's own thing well & only cost me ~$175.
Mine has a beautiful bird's eye maple board.
http://www.godinguitars.com/godinsdp.htm
It's an HSS strat-style, but with a few twists
1) It got a Gibby style short-scale.
2) The body is Silver leaf maple with poplar wings.
You would think it'd be bright with the maple body, but according to Godin the silver leaf maple is similar to mahogany in terms of tone & indeed the neck pup is warm & bluesy. The bridge humbucker, however, is bright in a good way. You can get a nice country sound on it or in tandem with the middle single coil if you wish.
The poplar is to lighten the ax as the silver leaf maple is heavy.
The Gibby scale makes it incredibly easy to bend & it plays like the proverbial butter. It has a nice low end.
It doesn't do some of the things that strats do, but it really isn't one & I don't wish that it was. It does it's own thing well & only cost me ~$175.
Mine has a beautiful bird's eye maple board.
http://www.godinguitars.com/godinsdp.htm
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