Because they can 
From a certain value upwards, it’s mostly about small details anyway 
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Is this english for “vanity”? 
No.
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Tone comes primarily from the pickups
Your fingers can influence it to some degree though.
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So … it’s not wood?
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no that’s Sustainwood, Tonewood is a myth
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Let’s discuss that at great length, @howard!
I’m sure nobody ever had anything to say about this topic
Also: funny that “wood” sounds like “would” but means something very different. Coincidence???!
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I think English gets this weirdness from Dutch or French (same thing really, Dutch is basically French German, like Belgium)
I may have set a record there
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Dutch language predated French and German for a few 1000 years.
The French and Germans were still basically monkeys living in trees when we already used our mobile phones to send each other elaborated jokes about Belgium
Facts! Napoleon brought Dutch to America on the Mayflower, when he brought the dinosaurs that made our oil.
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Japan has it’s own homophones. English gets a bad rap but a lot of languages do really
I mean, it’s a phonetic language. Of course it does.
this video talks about the big chunk of ‘would’ on the Harley Benton
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Yeah. Some people like the single cut style; some don’t. I am definitely in the “it looks like a whale” camp.
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au contraire, more is more 
Dutch is one of the western dialects of the germanic languages spoken in northern Europe and Scandinavia since around 600BCE. The original proto germanic began to split up around the time of Tacitus (100CE). Saxon (old english), frisian, and francish were one of those branches. Dutch evolved from francish starting around the 3rd century. The Francs settled west of the Rhine and adopted latin some time in the 2nd - 3rd century CE. Old french began around then as a regional dialect of latin with francish influence. So… I guess my point is that french and dutch are not only about the same age, but come from the same germanic tribe. 
Eta: german comes from a different branch than saxon, frisian, and francish. Those tribes started out down around the Danube about a hundred yeaes later.
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Fake, ehm, news!
I mean, if we wanna get cute with languages, sanskrit and dutch are related going back about 7000 years.
Also, the alphabet has only been invented once (Phoenicians), copied and adapted by the greeks then the etruscans, romans, goths and so on. Its gone back and forth a few times between Semitic languages to indo european and back again. The runic alphabet (futhark) was copied and adapted from the etruscans for example.
Well, Korean and Japanese both have their phonetic systems, alphabets if you will, derived Chinese characters.
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Let’s not forget that approximately 40,000 years ago, the Galactic Republic adopted Aurebesh as its alphabet, and it sounds remarkably like English.
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