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I was just about to complain that they didn't photo this neck very well when I realized it had turquoise binding too!

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Makore is tight-grained hardwood similar in color to black cherry, and hence also marketed as African Cherry. Good ol' Google. 

Looks like the wood Warmoth refers to as Makore is a different species, or if they're the same, there's inconsistency in how it's referred to.  Wikipedia has it as Mimulops heckelii.

See also:  http://www.warmoth.com/Guitar/Bodies/Options/BodyWoodOptions.aspx

Makore: (Tieghemella heckelii)
A tropical hardwood from the west coast of Africa with a very similar color to the Mahogany family though with a finer, more lustrous surface finish. Given the normal color and texture variations found in the Mahogany family most people can’t easily distinguish one species from another.  Makore can have a degree of figuring that enhances its appearance. Weight wise this wood is pretty similar to Honduran Mahogany and African Mahogany (Khaya) with a specific gravity of .62 and weighing about 39 lbs per cubic foot (Honduran Mahogany is .54 - .64 specific gravity and 34 – 40 lbs per cubic foot, African Mahogany .54 - .59 specific gravity and 34 – 36 pounds per cubic foot). For guitars this is heavy when compared to Swamp Ash and for this reason all three of these woods are much more popular when used as a chambered body. Tonality will be extremely similar to Mahoganies with the primary differences coming from the varied weights/densities within the species.
 
DMRACO said:
I like this one better....what the H$LL is Makore??
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Thanks to Bagman for the pedigree. I also saw it compared to Teak for grain/hardness, although I think Teak is naturally lighter in weight. This one is surprisingly heavy for being chambered. And the price! Whew! Gotta want that thing bad. Certainly a gorgeous body, though. I like that a lot.
 
Honestly, I'd rather the back on that brown to clear LP was mahogany.  I don't mind the BK, but I already have a BK Les Paul. 
 
Swamp ash often gets painted over, but I saw a Jazz bass someone had filled with black grain filler, and finished clear. With that in mind...
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Those are some pretty attractive pieces of Swamp Ash. I can see where you might want to leave that grain exposed. Be a shame to cover it up.
 
i always wanted a natural ash strat with a rosewood fingerboard (or maybe something with a great grain pattern like pau ferro) and black or maybe tortoise pickguard, and a mary kay white swamp ash strat w/white 3ply pickguard and pau ferro fingerboard,  and a sunburst alder strat with a mint green pickguard any finger board works with that one, shit the list goes on but i mostly want a natural ash/swamp ash strat.  there is something about the classic combos or slight variations. i think most of the natural Finnish strats i've seen were ash but swamp ask looks about the same.

 
Indeed - I actually stumbled onto that Jazz bass, and hence these bodies - trying to read up on my notion of  grain filling, staining basswood jet jet black, and tru-oiling to a gloss finish. I have seen some carvers and turning guys do basswood with such a finish.  Now the ideas in my head are morphing yet again - and here I was trying to arrive at 'easy DIY opqaue finishes that look nice'. Now... I can't even decide on how many strings, let alone the aesthetics... . but i can say - I wish W offered bari necks in beefier profiles.
 
The top two actually had me considering the hideous EB style teardrop pickguard - there's some pretties underneath the big slab of plastic.
 
Speaking of nicely figured ash, someone was a very bad boy last week and this honeyburst one somehow found its way into his shopping cart:

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drewfx said:
Speaking of nicely figured ash, someone was a very bad boy last week and this honeyburst one somehow found its way into his shopping cart:

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Not to be crassly opportunistic or anything, but I have a neck for sale that would look lovely with that body:


http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=20033.0
 
Bagman67 said:
Not to be crassly opportunistic or anything, but I have a neck for sale that would look lovely with that body:

http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=20033.0
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A nice neck and hopefully you find can a good home for it, but right now I'm pretty much a 59-roundback/LSR-nut/ss6105/raw kind of guy.  :rock-on:
 
There's three all-ebony necks on there at the moment. I'd grab one if they weren't all Pro Construction & compound radius.
 
Ace Flibble said:
There's three all-ebony necks on there at the moment. I'd grab one if they weren't all Pro Construction & compound radius.
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I saw that. I'd take the Strat version cut to a Warhead if it didn't have dots on it.

Oh, well. There'll be more.
 
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