New Squier tele's "tone wood" is ... Pine?

[jingle_jangle]

Budget Fenders (musicmasters and Duo-Sonics) were alder. I have had several.

I will be all over this Tele as soon as I find a store with several in stock. That see-thru finish is gorgeous. Gonna try out a few until I find one that plays as good as it looks.

[wj350]

Budget Fenders (musicmasters and Duo-Sonics) were alder. I have had several.

I will be all over this Tele as soon as I find a store with several in stock. That see-thru finish is gorgeous. Gonna try out a few until I find one that plays as good as it looks.

I need to make a point of not even touching one of these new little Duosonics. Last "budget Squier" I bought started out as a $200 Std Tele that I was going to use to throw in a gigbag and travel with...a $75 dollar MIM Std neck, $25 set of tuners, and $200 set of SD Five-Two pups and I have myself a very nice little partsocaster....or in more pointed terms, a $500 Squier.

Now you can see why I'm not rich!!!

[kenposurf]

Are we sure that the body is pine not agathis?

[tennis_nick]

Are we sure that the body is pine not agathis?

I thought Agathis was closer to alder or ash...

What an ugly name for wood though... or anything really...

[rikk]

Fender music master basses were pine.

Eden - was this from their inception in '70 or was it phased in later?

I have two '71 Musicmasters and for a short-scale budget bass with very ordinary pickups, they are fantastic. I had always thought they were alder for some reason.

I once put a Strat pickup in my Musicmaster and it improved the sound 1000%. Then my brother wanted the pickup back

[kenposurf]

Are we sure that the body is pine not agathis?

I thought Agathis was closer to alder or ash...

Related to Pine..and it's been used for awile..just wondering

What an ugly name for wood though... or anything really...

[jingle_jangle]

Can't tell agathis once it's finished; have to see what it works like. It's stringy, like willow or so-called "Phillipine Mahogany" (lauan).

[teeder]

They work real hard to counteract the negative image that pine has as a "tonewood". If it's good quality pine, like sugar pine, I'll bet that it does "resonate" nicely. Why not, on a low-cost solidbody?

Gotta feel a bit strange. Only the lightest grades of ash are as light as pine; this must feel like balsa over an ash-bodied Tele. I remember picking up my first Tele--a '53--and thinking how heavy it felt back then (1964).

+1

My brother has put together a couple pine "tele's" lately and they sound great! I don't know off-hand what type of pine they are, but could find out.
Right now his favorite tone combo is a pine body and a maple neck with a slab Brazillian board.