Aluminum strat project

[nexrex]

actually I have not seen it...where did you get the body???

The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, was to carry Excalibur...

Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government.
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

+1. Love the look  :guitarplayer2:

Oh but if I went 'round sayin' I was Emperor, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away. .

 

[DangerousR6]

Well, after some tinkering, I found that my bridge i bought doesn't fit. the span for the posts is 2.5" on the bridge, and on the body it's 2.2 and some change. So Imma make a new plate out of stainless...

:icon_biggrin:

 

[Cagey]

That'll be an interesting part. I'll look forward to seeing that.

 

[DangerousR6]

And so begins the madness...

:laughing7:

 

[Updown]

And so begins the madness...

Doug, I see your busy in the kitchen  :icon_biggrin:

:dontknow:  .... Whats that I can smell brewing ....  :laughing7:

 

[dmraco]

I hate to say this, but one of those carbon fiber/graphite guitar necks would look real cool on that thing....
http://www.aampselectricguitarstore.com/moses-graphite-necks/moses-strat-neck.html

 

[Updown]

I've heard the good and the very bad from that mob ...
Someone I know went though 3 necks on the one guitar and took him 18+ months to get it right ..

I was gunna get one ages ago, but got talked into a Warmoth and never looked back  :icon_biggrin:

Plus their correspondence was completely bloody useless  :doh:

My 0.02c

 

[Cagey]

It's curious that they have to talk about security and their BBB rating, rather than give any descriptions of the parts they sell. Sounds like there are some issues.

 

[jackthehack]

I like that carbon fiber neck for that build as well...

Don't want to get into the story, but if you should want to buy one of those necks, you'd be much better served paying $30 more and buying it direct from http://mosesgraphite.com/productpages/ns-27-s-style-guitar/

 

[Updown]

Don't want to get into the story, but if you should want to buy one of those necks, you'd be much better served paying $30 more and buying it direct from http://mosesgraphite.com/productpages/ns-27-s-style-guitar/

Thats the mob I was talking about  :evil4:  having trouble with ....  and very slack correspondence from them too.
The worst I have ever had ....... and that includes dealing with Gibson .... HJ is pathetic. Thats why Gibson is crap these days.

So anyone here actually have one of those Moses necks ?
Like to hear your story.

 

[DangerousR6]

I thought about a graphite neck, also an all aluminum neck. But i stuck with warmoth, best choice by far. I looked into an all ebony neck, but price was over the moon...

 

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

An all ebony neck would have totally dove the peghead to the ground too, insanely heavy!

 

[dmraco]

I suspect the weight of the aluminum would counter that.  The heavier the neck the better for that thing.  I hope Doug has been working out.

 

[stubhead]

Everything that'll fit is "modern USA" spec, cira 1994. All the pickguard screws and such are 4-40's. But as the owner of the original Gleamo the aluminum Tele, I can assure you that you don't want any MORE aluminum in the neck or most-wise elsewhere - I put Lawrence pickups in it because I "didn't want it to sound like a wood guitar" and you could drill hummingbird's TEETH with the thing. The treble is noticeable, as might be expected - it's the rapidity of the attack that is really amazing. One of these days I may retrofit a balsawood neck and some rubber pickups in the hopes of bring the sound back down from orbit... but go ahead. Put a graphite neck and EMG's on it. Plug it into the ol' Mesa Boogie triple rectifier. Then run like hell...

She's actually got the scalloped maple/ebony boatneck on her right now, but it was cause I needed her old neck for something else.

 

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

I suspect the weight of the aluminum would counter that.  The heavier the neck the better for that thing.  I hope Doug has been working out.

Most of these aluminum bodies appear to be hollow though.

The Normandy that I played recently was extremely light, loads of neck dive.

 

[dmraco]

is your tele hollow??  I image that changed the sound a bit too.

 

[stubhead]

In the original run of 100 Telecaster bodies and 409 Stratocaster bodies sent to Fender in 1993 after being fabricated by Spruce Hill Music in Minnesota, the skin of the bodies is 1/16" sheet aluminum mounted to an inner framework of... 1/4" X 1" aluminum bars, if I remember right (mine's all put together right now).  There are a few larger plates welded where the bridge attaches, and one big solid chunk which is the neck block. I'm sure the Strat has some differing ways to support the whole tremolo business. There's a kinda undetermined amount of that original run that fell off the truck or wasn't sent for some reason; the Tele I have has some faint little buffing marks where particles got caught and the metal was buffed down around them, you can barely see them but still... I do know Fender originally told Spruce Hill they didn't care about the overage and then called back to claim? Seize? Destroy? them but they'd already scooted.

Since then, there have been all sorts of differing versions of Telecaster-and-other shaped aluminum guitars, made in every way possible including machining them down from a single billet! And the Velano guitar actually predated them, as did both the Kramer and Travis Bean aluminum-necked models. Mine is definitely light in weight, probably around the body weight of a very light little SG or LP Jr..

 

[DangerousR6]

I suspect the weight of the aluminum would counter that.  The heavier the neck the better for that thing.  I hope Doug has been working out.

Most of these aluminum bodies appear to be hollow though.

The Normandy that I played recently was extremely light, loads of neck dive.

Yes they are hollow, very little in the way of internal structure. Bulk of the weight is the chunk the neck bolts to. The rest is sparsely comprised of 3/8" x 3/4" bits of bar stock. I think the body weighs just a hair over 3lbs. So without a forklift counter balance on the back end, solid ebony, or aluminum is out of the question. i went with 100% goncalo alves.... :icon_biggrin:

 

[DangerousR6]

Like Michael Jackson once said....gotta be startin' somethin'...

 

[bagman67]

Sham-on.  Whoooo!