Identify Body Wood Type?
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Very hard to say.....every bit of wood......and every section within that bit is unique. The bit removed had might have had no/little tonal contribution, it could have been the bit that made the guitar a total dog, it could be a dog now precisely because of that removal. You'll never know unless you visit a parallel universe and find the same guitar without that rout.
Very hard to say.....every bit of wood......and every section within that bit is unique. The bit removed had might have had no/little tonal contribution, it could have been the bit that made the guitar a total dog, it could be a dog now precisely because of that removal. You'll never know unless you visit a parallel universe and find the same guitar without that rout.
Chris Pile
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Re: Identify Body Wood Type?
Maple topped mahogany. PERIOD.
Maple topped mahogany. PERIOD.
frankfalbo
In Fluence Y'all
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That's a very standard superstrat route in the back, like what's found on Warmoth bodies and Stew Mac sells a template kit about that size. Considering the base of the neck pocket is the only place that looks more hand-routed and has router bit burn marks, I could see this as having been a regular Warmoth body that someone recessed the neck pocket. Warmoth hot stamps their brand logo into the neck pockets and the necks. This could have been someone routing past that point to remove the stamp.
Anyway it looks like fairly standard Mahogany back, Maple top configuration.
That's a very standard superstrat route in the back, like what's found on Warmoth bodies and Stew Mac sells a template kit about that size. Considering the base of the neck pocket is the only place that looks more hand-routed and has router bit burn marks, I could see this as having been a regular Warmoth body that someone recessed the neck pocket. Warmoth hot stamps their brand logo into the neck pockets and the necks. This could have been someone routing past that point to remove the stamp.
Anyway it looks like fairly standard Mahogany back, Maple top configuration.
Re: Identify Body Wood Type?
Great, thanks for all the help. I'm excited to finish her up. Yeah, the performance neck has the thumb cutout...I can't wait! I don't have specs on the radius for buying the right nut, it's somewhere between 12-16"...maybe my local music store has some gauges, or I may just buy a set.
Don't know why I took this long to resume, but life gets a way from us...
Great, thanks for all the help. I'm excited to finish her up. Yeah, the performance neck has the thumb cutout...I can't wait! I don't have specs on the radius for buying the right nut, it's somewhere between 12-16"...maybe my local music store has some gauges, or I may just buy a set.
Don't know why I took this long to resume, but life gets a way from us...
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EDIT: Unless they were fitting it for that neck.
Makes senses, but for the life of me, I can't think of a reason why someone would do that...
EDIT: Unless they were fitting it for that neck.
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Chistopher
malapterurus electricus tonewood instigator
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Or they didn't want you to know it's Warmoth. But was Warmoth around back 30 years ago? That would place it about 3 years before Al Gore invented the internet.
Or they didn't want you to know it's Warmoth. But was Warmoth around back 30 years ago? That would place it about 3 years before Al Gore invented the internet.
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Well, I got it from a friend. I traded an early 70s (73?) Marshall half-cab with 30 watt celestians for the body, neck and case. I had just sold my marshall 67' 50 watt head and was downsizing so I could move out of LA and into the country. If you think that's bad, I sold my '64 21 window microbus too...oh the things we get rid of we wish we never had. But I had to get out of la...it was going to destroy me...but now I live in the country, have a nice family and twin boy teenagers learning to jam...so if I had to trade that stuff again for what I have now...I'd do it again without thinking about it.
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