The answer is...depends what you mean by 'chambered body'.
Some are entirely hollow, bent sides, top and back glued on. Some tops and backs are carved, some are laminated, some are flat. Some hollowed guitars have a block in the middle, some support under the bridge, some no support at all. Some have lots of small chambers, some a few larger ones, some only one. Some only glue on a top, and have a variable number of chambers and/or sound holes. Concensus, insofar as there is any, is that more small holes = more effect on weight, less effect on tone, whereas fewer larger chambers affect the tone. How exactly tone is affected....that's a whole different conversation.
Look at Warmoth's website for several shots of the 'insides' of their chambered strats and their thinline telecasters. Google image searching will help, too.
I build most of my mahogany/maple topped guitars with chambers, lately with multiple large-ish ones. Shot of the inside of the last chambered electric I built (been a while):
The next one on the list, for example, is essentially an archtop (carved, braced top) glued onto a fully chambered body.
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