New video: What if Malcolm Young played a Wramoth?

[Cheery Zeery]

Hollow body, chambered, thinline, et al; the delineations between all those things can get a little loosey-goosey. The Mooncaster is listed as a hollow carved top, but it's not a true hollow body in the sense that a Gretsch is. But it is also definitely more than simply "chambered" or "thinline".

The entire body core is cut from a single piece of wood, and the wings are completely hollowed out. Then the top is glued on.

When Ken Warmoth was developing the Mooncaster, he actually purchased a custom shop Gibson 339, because they are made the same way. It's still sitting in the Warmoth headquarters, nearly untouched for 15 years. I've been scheming about how to "permanently borrow" it for that entire time. Creative suggestions are welcomed.

If one were to hypothetically clone the Gibson as a Mooncaster, what would the specs be?

 

[Hodgo]

If one were to hypothetically clone the Gibson as a Mooncaster, what would the specs be?

Ostensibly that would be an all maple (core and top) Mooncaster with all the controls except the lower horn toggle, humbuckers, TOM bridge, ivoroid binding. Mahogany Hombre neck with rosewood or ebony fretboard and trapezoid/split/block inlays and again ivoroid bindings

Gibson 57 Classic neck, 57 Classic Plus Bridge and 2v2t 500k wiring with .022uf caps.

 

[Verne Bunsen]

Great video, really enjoyed the back story and the build

 

[NedRyerson]

How some of the little things in these videos may have unexpected impacts: I'm using that exact same bridge in a different build and the tips and discoveries like this are very, very helpful.

 

[Verne Bunsen]

How some of the little things in these videos may have unexpected impacts: I'm using that exact same bridge in a different build and the tips and discoveries like this are very, very helpful.

I read this in the comments for that video and thought “Well, that sounds pretty clever. I will log that one away for if I ever use one of them bridges…”

 

[Bruce Campbell]

Wramoth.