I wonder if WARMOTH would....

[rightintheface]

...do something special for me...

if you didn't know already, i have a tendency towards f-hole teles, and more recently; double f-hole teles. i currently have one chambered bk korina (single f hole), and one thinline alder (2 f-holes). next on the cards is a solid mahogany with maple top (ala LP). but i really wanna keep the two f-hole look. so i was wondering (and i know this is extremely unorthodox, and 100% cosmetic)...

would warmoth be able to route the maple lam-top before putting it on the mahogany? so then the f-holes would only be as "deep" as the lam-top. then i could paint the inside of them black. the tele would be gloss white with black binding, including around the fholes (which i would do myself), which would be a direct opposite of my current thinline (see youtube vid in my sig).  :headbang:

now i know some people won't like the idea of "false" f-holes, but i like the idea of actually having some wood routed out as opposed to just painting them on like the paul gilbert sig Ibanez. i think those painted ones look kinda cruddy.

anyone got any input on this? besides that they dont like the idea  :icon_tongue:

Note: OR -  would warmoth do a chambered tele with both f-holes? last time i emailed them they said they couldn't, but maybe for a special custom order? i'm talking for a rear-route. surely it wouldn't screw the chambered design sooooo badly to do that extra little bit of routing under the second f-hole?

 

[rightintheface]

while we're on the topic of teles (thinlines in particular: can i install a b5 bigsby onto my existing thinline? i read somwhere (cant find the link) that you need to omit the chamber behind the bridge. would this REALLY be necessary or could i get away with it? i didnt specify to omit the chamber so i figure it's got one.

 

[JaySwear]

i don't know if they would do that (your first post about faux f-holes) but it would look killer! i'm a fan of gilbert's painted f-holes, but only in concept. like you, i'm not a fan of the fact that they're so obvious. would you paint them gloss of flat black? and maybe put a volume inside the end of the f-hole like gilberts? anyway, very cool idea

 

[koshersteel]

if they can't do it you could always order an f-hole template from stew-mac and then rout them yourself...

 

[NLD09]

if they can't do it you could always order an f-hole template from stew-mac and then rout them yourself...

+1

 

[Alfang]

Why don't you just do an inlay patern in an f hole sorta way.  If your just looking for cosmetics, I think that would look awesome

 

[rightintheface]

hmmmmm i wouldn't be big on either the volume pot in the f-hole (bit.... i dunno. NOT me), and the inlay (way outta my league). my routing skills are limited (for the stew mac template) to the point where i wouldn't like to attack an actual guitar i was planning on playing.

i would paint the holes matt black with gloss black trim. i know- painted binding isn't actually binding. but this is purely for aesthetic purposes. and i flat out just don't want to paint them onto the guitar face. i'd much rather them be routed in.

which basically leaves me with just warmoth doing it as an option  :tard:

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

Note: OR -  would warmoth do a chambered tele with both f-holes? last time i emailed them they said they couldn't, but maybe for a special custom order? i'm talking for a rear-route. surely it wouldn't screw the chambered design sooooo badly to do that extra little bit of routing under the second f-hole?

On the chambered bodies, one of the chambers is actually shaped like an F-hole before the lam top is applied.  If anyone has a chambered Tele body w/out an F-hole, guess what, they have an F-hole shaped chamber.  On the control side, if an an F-hole were done throught the lam top, it would not be clean and reveal the chambers.  For this reason, they don't offer F-holes on the chambered J-Bass.  It does not have an F-hole shaped chamber.  Just a matter of CNC programming I guess.

 

[JaySwear]

i'm not sure, since i thought that the top was glued to the body wood first, before routing it and cutting out the body shape. could be wrong! it would be extremely cool if they could do this.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

They may route both after the top is applied, but on the cutaway view of the chambered Tele, along with the chambers it shows the F-hole shaped chamber.  I would guess for the sake of ease of manufacture, they chamber all of them the same so they have a pile of core bodies already done before a lam top is ever chosen.  An order is placed, they grab the body, glue on the top and route the F-hole on the top if that option is chosen, along with the pickup routes.