Jimmy Herring's black bucker strat...

[rockskate4x]

...looks like it's got a goncalo neck on it... check out the headstock!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rehayirl_xI

 

[jalane]

Jimmy Herring is a monster.  I love everything about his playing.  and yes, goncalo for sure.  :rock-on:

 

[Doughboy]

That looks like a goncalo neck, but I wonder if the fingerboard is roseweeod, as it looks way darker than the rest of the neck.

Btw, if anyone doesn't have Jimmy's last album, Lifeboat, y'all be missing out!!!!

 

[stubhead]

http://www.warmoth.com/Stars/JimmyHerring.aspx

Warmoth Goncalo neck used on the following songs on my CD “Lifeboat”:

"Jungle Book Overture- "Disney" section, the real clean 3 part guitars that functions like a bridge and leads back to the main head. The Goncalo neck had an amazing clean clear articulate sound. It sounded better than any of my other guitars on that section.

The same thing goes for the lead guitar on Gray Day. We plugged it in direct into a Wonders mic pre and then we added reverb. Everyone thinks that is a hollow body guitar but it is the black Warmoth Body with the Goncalo neck.

I also used in on the head for "Lost" and "Splash". It has a unique articulate voice that is very soothing."

--- Jimmy Herring

 

[rockskate4x]

That looks like a goncalo neck, but I wonder if the fingerboard is roseweeod, as it looks way darker than the rest of the neck.

Btw, if anyone doesn't have Jimmy's last album, Lifeboat, y'all be missing out!!!!

Well, yeaah, I figured that. I just didn't want to guess what the fretboard was, because as I've observed in previous threads that that can be a whole other can of worms. If you really want to know my opinion, I bet it's Pau Ferro. My reasoning is that goncalo is pretty warm sounding and if he wanted it to sound like his other strat he might have balanced it out with brighter wood. I think for fretboard wood of that color (assuming he ordered from warmoth) pau ferro is as bright as you can go.

Of course he could have been like, what the hey, and just got indian rosewood or something...

 

[simple]

It's a Goncalo neck with a Brazilian Rosewood fingerboard on it, 1-11/16" nut width, Std thin back contour, 10" straight radius and 6000 frets. He told me he loves the sound of that neck. He has now moved to a straight 16" fingerboard radius preference.