GAS Alert!!!!

He meant what is that big black plastic thing covering up such a nice piece of wood?  :toothy12:
 
lafromla1 said:
He meant what is that big black plastic thing covering up such a nice piece of wood?  :toothy12:
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That was my first thought when it popped up in my RSS feed... why oh why do they top-route so much of the showcase stuff?  I wonder if you could get a custom control cavity cover for it and mount the neck pickup in a mounting ring.
 
Thing is, if you feel you must have a pickguard, you can always install one on a rear-rout body. It's just not necessary unless you worry about scratching up your finish. Personally, I think pickguards on fine pieces of wood like that are like plastic covers on fine furniture. Why spend the money if you're just going to cover it up?
 
lafromla1 said:
He meant what is that big black plastic thing covering up such a nice piece of wood?  :toothy12:
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honestly I think the tele body shape does not complement the grain pattern at all. I mean, I don't like vertical stripes in general, but i feel like it might work on a longer, more curvaceous body shape like a VIP or even an LP
 
Oh my!

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Cagey said:
Thing is, if you feel you must have a pickguard, you can always install one on a rear-rout body. It's just not necessary unless you worry about scratching up your finish. Personally, I think pickguards on fine pieces of wood like that are like plastic covers on fine furniture. Why spend the money if you're just going to cover it up?
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A pickguard on a rear route now means more plastic because of the control cavity cover on the back.  A pickguard on a rear route also makes mounting the 3-way or 5-way blade switch impossible because it must go through the pickguard and the wooden top.  I think this particular piece would look great either way, but on Fender body shapes that I'm used to seeing with pickguards, they look funny w/out them even with beautiful tops.

I tend to think the opposite.  Instead of, "Why would you put a pickguard over a beautiful top?"  I say to myself, "Why would you put a beautiful top under that pickguard?"
 
mayfly said:
I have to stop reading this thread
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The solution is to just subscribe to the RSS feed.  Then you see all this stuff before it even gets posted here, along with everything else too.
 
that would make it even worse because he would seeall of the pieces that dont make it to this thread
 
Not really of my like, but these: :eek:

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lovely looking Mahogany

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I'm not a big fan of Walnut, but this one looks ace!
 
AprioriMark said:
How does a RSS feed work?

-Mark
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I use iGoogle as my home page and anything new that Warmoth puts out goes into a feed that comes up there.  Its pretty nifty actually.

Its a perfect way to make you sick to your stomach that you don't have unlimited funds.  I'm finding ways to save money, sell shite, and possibly get a second job just to support my GAS habit, while trying not to spill the beans to the woman that actually runs the house.  Its 'Crackmoth' I tell you.
 
AprioriMark said:
How does a RSS feed work?

-Mark
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I use Google Reader, and I have RSS subscriptions to >50 blogs/sites.  I just open up Reader, and it shows me the latest posts from all of those sites ordered by date/time (with ones I haven't read marked in bold, like email), and I can go through and read either a preview or the whole article (depending on how the site set up their RSS feed) and then click through to the article if I want to.

To quote Wikipedia, "The RSS reader checks the user's subscribed feeds regularly for new work, downloads any updates that it finds, and provides a user interface to monitor and read the feeds."

Back on topic... that Padouk/Canary neck would be expensive... because I'd have to buy a sick body to match  :toothy12:
 
I think when I stare at it a while like an old black light poster, I can see a few...
 
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