Maplecaster of the figured kind....
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DangerousR6
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Very nice, good looking axe you got coming your way... :headbang:
I just love the top! How about Photoshopping in, rather than the rosewood, the awesome flame on the fret board as well? And how would it look with a matching spalted laminate on the headstock? I mean, as long as it's still in the dream phase...and I really don't mind spending your money :icon_biggrin: .
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I like the neck you've chosen, but I think if it were me I'd go even simpler. You're paying a premium for curly Maple that for the most part isn't even seen. I'd drop back to a Rosewood fretboard over roasted Maple, which would do three things for you:
1. Lower the price of the raw material
2. Match the body better, color-wise
3. Not require a finish, which feels/plays better while saving another $90
Probably save $200 and end up with a better neck. Besides, you don't want a neck so fancy that it draws the eye away from from the body when the body is fancy. Whole thing ends up looking too busy.
And no, you can't get spalted Maple veneer. The stuff is too frangible to cut that thin.
Also, get stainless frets. I don't care what you've read/heard, they're the ultimate.
1. Lower the price of the raw material
2. Match the body better, color-wise
3. Not require a finish, which feels/plays better while saving another $90
Probably save $200 and end up with a better neck. Besides, you don't want a neck so fancy that it draws the eye away from from the body when the body is fancy. Whole thing ends up looking too busy.
And no, you can't get spalted Maple veneer. The stuff is too frangible to cut that thin.
Also, get stainless frets. I don't care what you've read/heard, they're the ultimate.
Guitarsan
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Cagey said:
Appreciate all the inputs, I did pull the trigger on this neck.
My reasons and comments....
The roasted body, I don't think, would take a waterslide Fender headstock decal nicely, so that's a factor. That's my reasoning for a lighter shaded neck. Frankly if Warmoth made a non-orange tinted vintage tint, I would lean to that. But alas, they don't. (For some odd reason)
The figuring/flaming you can see on the front is well separated from the body, so I don't think it really detracts from it. It also adds some flare to the plain mahogany back, and I'll have a great view of the neck flame from the playing position, because, hey, I'm important too. :laughing7:
This may be my only build, so I wanted to go with premium parts. But, I'll admit I'm tempted by the whole roasted thing for the reasons you mentioned, so if there is a #2 in my future, that's a strong contender.
This neck does have stainless steel frets, so it has that going for it, which is nice. (And MOP inlays)
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I've tried "exotics" woods (still have) but visually flame maple is my preference. It's a pleasure to watch the neck as I play and since my only guitar for years was a black SG I'm used to painted necks. Satin, gloss or nothing at all doesn't bother me.
Here's mine which is similar to yours but with an ebony fretboard.
BTW, I agree about the orange tint. I believe it's too much and not really vintage...
Here's mine which is similar to yours but with an ebony fretboard.
BTW, I agree about the orange tint. I believe it's too much and not really vintage...
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I can make those all day long....Guitarsan said:Have my own neck plate.. very limited... like one.... :laughing7:
http://unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=2754.2955
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DangerousR6 said:I can make those all day long....Guitarsan said:Have my own neck plate.. very limited... like one.... :laughing7:
http://unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=2754.2955
:laughing3::laughing3::laughing3:
Guitarsan
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DangerousR6 said:I can make those all day long....Guitarsan said:Have my own neck plate.. very limited... like one.... :laughing7:
http://unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=2754.2955
Yeah, maybe I was a bit sloppy with that post. The guitar I'm building is very limited, like one. But, good to know!
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Guitarsan said:
Any guitar with figured woods is limited, one of a kind. You can build a green or black guitar anytime you want but if you like a body or neck with unusual grain or just a pretty top better take it before someone else does. You just can't find the same and that's a good thing, it makes your instrument one of a kind.
BTW...Doug not also makes fine products (he does more than neck plates) but he's a great guy too. This makes his work more special for me. I highly recommend him.
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+1000 to the above. I thought the pictures of the gear Doug did for me were great but they didn't do justice to what arrived in the mail. And reasonably priced. Even if I would have been able to source brass rings, control cover plate, truss rod plate, neck plate from somewhere else for a lower price the resulting products would have not been anywhere near as well made and hefty--I ain't scared of no weight--as what Doug did for me.
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Another vote for Doug, all my neckplates were done by him and they are very personal to me and solid as a mountain. :hello2:
