bagman67
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ihavenothingprofoundtosay said:Warning: possible threadjacking!
Well, more a rabbit trail off the main topic, but... I have a few sheets of aluminum/steel sheetmetal - (leftovers from the HVAC install on my house). Wondering - could I use them as a veneer on a guitar? Or even a top for a thinline style guitar? I've learned a ton building a thinline from scratch, but I'm ready to do another one & make it much better - if I could use this sheetmetal as a top (I could polish it into something seriously shiny), would that work?
This guy has done amazing things with copper, brass, steel sheet metal tops on guitars - I think you needn't worry too much about a thin veneer of metal screwing with your tone, at least if the metal is glued down to wood, since (all together now) the primary sound source on an electric guitar is the string vibrating within the magnetic field of the pickup, not the resonance of the wood.
http://girlbrand.com/
See, e.g., http://girlbrand.com/indexM.htm
See also Tony Zemaitis: http://cdn.mos.musicradar.com/images/Guitarist/322/ac-zemaitis-mf501-bl-custom-metal-front-460-80.jpg