More body blank options

[Name]

It would be cool If I could order a body blank with lp controls instead of stratocaster controls. More woods would also be cool.

 

[Cagey]

More wood choices are probably available with a phone call. Stock availability fluctuates, so that would end up being yet another web page that needs periodic updates.

As for controls, I'm more surprised that they offer Strat or Tele controls than I am by the absence of any others. Seems like it would be a pretty limiting thing, inasmuch as it would influence potential body shapes. Besides, if one has the wherewithal to make a body from a blank, I would think routing a control cavity and drilling some holes in it would be puppy chow.

For that matter, I wonder how many blanks they sell. As above, anybody with the wherewithal to make bodes is beyond the point of needing someone to make them blanks. I would think the reverse would be true more often, where people would be wanting to send them blanks to be cut/routed/drilled into viable bodies. Special wood, like from a tree on great-grandma's farm, recovered from old furniture, recovered from old buildings, churches, etc.

 

[rgand]

As above, anybody with the wherewithal to make bodes is beyond the point of needing someone to make them blanks.

Actually, that requires a way to plane them to the right thickness. I just spent almost 5 months getting someone to make one for me at something other than 1 3/4". The rest I can do with a pocket knife.

 

[Hendrix]

also someone buy blanks from warmoth , for at least it is genuine wood of that kind that suitable to made guitar .

as people in China and other 3nd world country , can't fully trust what they buy is what the seller said it is .    :dontknow:

 

[Cagey]

That's a good point. I've read stories where people have bought wood from some supplier who is not familiar with musical instrument requirements sends something that's less than ideal. At least from Warmoth, they know what it is and what it's going to be used for.

 

[rgand]

I agree that Warmoth has first quality wood and they are my first choice. It would be good if they would offer it in 1 5/8" thicknesses, though. I finally found USACG would shave it down for me so I got it from them. It's a fine piece of wood, I must add.

 

[TenThumbs]

if one has the wherewithal to make a body from a blank, I would think routing a control cavity and drilling some holes in it would be puppy chow.

Not sure I agree with this - routing and drilling takes knowledge, accuracy, and mildly specialist tools, which not everyone may have. Cutting a body shape can be done with a saw and some sandpaper (broadly speaking).

This, on the other hand:

...people would be wanting to send them blanks to be cut/routed/drilled into viable bodies. Special wood, like from a tree on great-grandma's farm, recovered from old furniture, recovered from old buildings, churches, etc.

...is a brilliant idea.

 

[stratamania]

As above, anybody with the wherewithal to make bodes is beyond the point of needing someone to make them blanks.

Actually, that requires a way to plane them to the right thickness. I just spent almost 5 months getting someone to make one for me at something other than 1 3/4". The rest I can do with a pocket knife.

You can also thickness with a router, if you make a jig.

At random here is a video.

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[rgand]

That's a good video, Stratamania. Thanks for posting it. I may need to do that some time in the future.

 

[Cagey]

It probably works a little better than something I built from from the same source - a seat-scooping jig for chairs/stools. Very similar construction, but with profiles cut into the side guides so that rather than cut a flat surface, you create cupping. Asses need cupping. Yeah, I said it. I can say that because I'm not an actor or politician  :laughing7:

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The problem with scooping is there are no flat surfaces, so sanding the thing smooth after you've cut it is not fun, but it beats the snot out of trying to create those contours with nothing but abrasives.

 

[rgand]

Cool setup, Kevin. It doesn't quite make me want to start making cupped chair seats but it's a very cool jig.

 

[Cagey]

I used it to make the seat for a guitar-playing stool for one of my brothers out of a bunch of scrap Maple pieces I had lying about from another project. Glued 'em up like a cutting board and scooped it for comfort.  I didn't actually want to deal with scooping as much as I wanted to play with wedged mortise/tenon joints. I used Oak for the legs/braces, and wedged the tenons with Walnut. Overall, it was a very attractive/impressive piece as delivered, but a year or so later it was the first time I was exposed to what happens to unfinished Maple.

 

[stratamania]

Traditionally you would not use an abrasive to create the cups, but you would use gouges and scrapers.