James' Explorers - maple?
James' Explorers - maple?
Now, we all know that the regular MX you can get now is made of all mahogany with ebony fretboard. But I've read somewhere that James' Explorers had maple necks. Now I found this (fan) website that claims this:
James' ESP guitars (unless otherwise noted): Are built or overseen by Matt Masciandaro. James guitars are neck-through-body constructed. They mainly have maple necks and mahogany bodies.
What the hell? Neck through? Can anyone confirm anything? And is the maple necks information even correct to begin with? I always assumed he had maple necks because I read that years ago.
Also, in Guitar World 1991 he says that his Explorers are made of 'denser wood than Gibsons, which makes them sound better'. So by this I thought of maple also.
Though, James has been using his first KL explorer for cleans for the last decade plus, I think. It's a mahogany neck, but I understand James and KL think the Honduran Rosewood (which is brighter and punchier by most accounts) was key to the tone of that guitar, and so his second one also got the Honduran Rosewood.
doesn't teh jaymezes mx have rosewood fretboards instead of ebony???