My Fallout 4 Wasteland Baritone Tele

[Sci-Fried Dobbs]

Yeah, after looking at the polish I came to the same conclusion. I did find my P2000 paper so I'll get on that in the morning. I appreciate your help and input. It's noticeably more slick now.

 

[Glimmer]

I found that the 2000 took away the sheen that I had achieved with the 1200. The neck was all the smoother for it, but the finish had dulled so to speak. (Should add that the 2000 I used was wet/dry sand paper, the preceding were polishing papers.) I went one last round with 4000 and that brought the sheen back.

 

[Sci-Fried Dobbs]

I've been using wet/dry sandpaper and it has dulled my sheen a bit. I just ordered some 3M polishing paper. I just finished up the P2000 sanding and it feels incredible. Hopefully, the polishing paper will return some of its original luster. No big deal, either way. It's mildly less pretty but it's massively smoother and I know that will equate to better playability. I take function over aesthetic anyways, and it's not like it still isn't pretty. I mean, the reason I went with a raw neck was for it to feel this way. I was happy with how it came from the factory...until I did this and saw how much smoother it could be. Now I really see why you said you "can't imagine not doing it."

 

[Glimmer]

…I mean, the reason I went with a raw neck was for it to feel this way. I was happy with how it came from the factory...until I did this and saw how much smoother it could be. Now I really see why you said you "can't imagine not doing it."

These were my feelings, too.

 

[Sci-Fried Dobbs]

I was supposed to take my guitar to my luthier today but that won't be happening. I already bought a set of Frog Dog Flatface picks that I was planning to use but I'd been heavily leaning to going with Lace Dissonant Aggressors for months. Finally, I decided to get the Lace pickups. The package came in today and they sent me a single Lace Sensor Blue singlecoil pickup, rather than the set of humbuckers. So, that sucks. It's been rectified and I should have the correct pickups by Friday. So, if all goes correct, I'll be taking it in Saturday. l

 

[Sci-Fried Dobbs]

On the plus side, my new fuzz pedal arrived today from Svi Sound! This was the last pedal for my new live setup, so I get to finish rearranging my board today. Early review of this FuzzoZoid is that it's sooooooooo awesome! It stinks that I don't get to get my guitar started but I'm going to have a lot of fun with this new toy.

 

[Sci-Fried Dobbs]

My pickups arrived! Amazon overnighted these to me to correct the wrong one showing up yesterday.

 

[Volitions Advocate]

Where's the vault-tec logo?

Very nice build.  I've been debating doing some sort of a non-traditional build like this.  Something I can really frankenstein with a gutted GK or some Ghost saddles and a hexpander.

 

[Sci-Fried Dobbs]

Oddly enough, the Vault Tech logo still hasn't been integrated. However Vault 111 will be represented with a patch on the guitar strap. This is the patch that I'm going to be using. I ordered it a few weeks ago and they finished and shipped it yesterday. In the original design of the guitar, the Vault Tech logo was going to be on the neck plate but I decided to go with the Brotherhood of Steel logo.

 

[Sci-Fried Dobbs]

Cagey and Glimmer, thank you so much for suggesting I burnish/polish the neck. I spent 3 hours in total and it was worth every second of it. It's a night and day improvement. The shine went away when I took it to 2000 grit sandpaper. However, once I started going back through with the polishing cloth, it returned and then some! The photos don't fully do it justice.

 

[Cagey]

It's funny you don't hear about doing this anywhere else. You'd think it'd be common practice. Of course, you don't often see raw necks elsewhere, so perhaps that's why.

 

[Sci-Fried Dobbs]

I know! It's freaking weird. I looked it up on youtube and found nothing. Prior to you guys, I hadn't heard about it once. It definitely should be a standard thing.

 

[Sci-Fried Dobbs]

I've got everything loaded to take to my luthier. In two weeks or so, I'll finally be able to play this thing! In the mean time, I still have some more knobs and a backplate to make. Also, I have to modify my strap. But, I'm almost done.

 

[Glimmer]

Cagey and Glimmer, thank you so much for suggesting I burnish/polish the neck. I spent 3 hours in total and it was worth every second of it. It's a night and day improvement. The shine went away when I took it to 2000 grit sandpaper. However, once I started going back through with the polishing cloth, it returned and then some! The photos don't fully do it justice.

Glad it worked out for you. It looks (and I know it feels) great. Don't think I'd go with a finished neck again if I had the choice.

Now, I've got a question: what are the tonal properties of a zebrawood shaft? I didn't know Warmoth used it for necks and am curious. Took a peek at their "neck woods" page and didn't see zebrawood IIRC. Could you fill me in?

The reason I ask is that I really like that streaky look (and your neck kind of looks like an extreme version of the one I got in Goncalo Alves).

 

[Sci-Fried Dobbs]

Zebrawood is just another name for Goncalo Alves.

 

[Glimmer]

I don't believe that's the case. See the links below from The Wood Database:

http://www.wood-database.com/lumber-identification/hardwoods/zebrawood/

http://www.wood-database.com/lumber-identification/hardwoods/goncalo-alves/

Your shaft looks an awful lot like GA.

 

[Sci-Fried Dobbs]

It is Goncalo Alves, as per the Warmoth site. I got used to calling it Zebrawood because the people I know around here call it by that name, rather than Goncalo Alves. I've seen other sites that list them as the same type of wood. Not sure. I'll try to remember to refer to it by GA from hence forth lol

 

[Cagey]

I'd never heard that, either. But, another source (Wikipedia) has it this way:

An alternative name which occurs in 18th century British sources is palmaletto or palmalatta, from palo mulatto, which was the local name for the wood. At the beginning of the 19th century, another source of zebrawood was found in Brazil. This species, Astronium fraxinifolium, is native to northern South America, especially north-eastern Brazil. It is now traded as goncalo alves, a Portuguese name used in Brazil. On the European and American markets, however, it was still called zebrawood, and commonly used in British furniture-making between about 1810 and 1860.

Although, it appears there are about six different species of it:

The name zebrawood is used to describe several tree species and the wood derived from them. Zebrawood is characterized by a striped figure that reminiscent of a zebra. The name originally applied to the wood of Astronium graveolens,[citation needed] a large tree native to Central America. In the 20th century, the most important source of zebrawood was Microberlinia brazzavillensis,[citation needed] a tree native to Central Africa. Other sources include Brazilian Astronium fraxinifolium, African Brachystegia spiciformis,[dubious – discuss] Pacific Guettarda speciosa,[dubious – discuss] and Asian Pistacia integerrima.[citation needed]

So, that might account for the variations in appearance. Kinda like Cocobolo, Tulipwood, and Kingwood - they're all Rosewood. That is, they're all part of the genus Dalbergia.

 

[Glimmer]

Hmm, hmm. Interesting.

On a related note, I've seen Bubinga referred to as African Rosewood.

Perhaps a rose is a rose is a rose after all.

 

[Glimmer]

It is Goncalo Alves, as per the Warmoth site. I got used to calling it Zebrawood because the people I know around here call it by that name, rather than Goncalo Alves. I've seen other sites that list them as the same type of wood. Not sure. I'll try to remember to refer to it by GA from hence forth lol

I'm almost disappointed. :glasses10: I've been ogling some Warmoth Zebrawood bodies of late and got downright excited when you mentioned a Zebrawood shaft. Just curious as to its potential sonic properties w/respect to guitar necks.

Anybody know if Warmoth ever used what they call Z-wood for a neck shaft? :icon_scratch: