Sand-blasted swamp ash guitars?

[stubhead]

Some of these come out pretty cool:

- Warwick

- F-bass

It's hard to imagine cuddling up with one in your rocking chair, but they're certainly metal enough. arty07: There was a company called Andreas that actually took a blowtorch to swamp ash with cool results, but I can't wrassle up a picture right now.

 

[Wana_make_a_guitar]

Woah i like the first one. Sand blasting it really emphasizes the grain, is that died also? maybe thats the sort of thing i could do, i know someone locally who owns a sandblaster!

Edit: That site has some freaking awesome basses. My mate would be screamin' like a little girl over these. And yes i am quietly inside, i wish i played bass now...........

 

[Shmoopie]

Ah the warwick darklord, its tuned to F# B E A
http://www.warwickbass.com/basses/vampyre_darklord.htm


they also have a corvette tuned to B E A D  the five string has a high G.

also sandblasted, and I've been wanting sand blasted swamp ash body.
http://www.warwickbass.com/basses/corvette_taranis.htm

now some one post a link to the site you guys are talking about, I really want to see.

 

[stubhead]

http://www.fbass.com/

That one on the home page is pretty. It's hard for me to see what's worth $2,495 about this:

Froc SBJ Solid Body Jazz Guitar
-Mahogany body
-Maple neck
-Rosewood fretboard
-Humbucking neck pickup
-Tun-o-matic bridge
-Gotoh tuners
-Hand rubbed finish

Umm... well, O.K. then! It's been rubbed by a Frenchman, for $1,795! Must be quite some rubbin'... :hello2:

 

[Patrick from Davis]

I wonder what they use as media to blast with.  The setups seem to be about 100 to 150 bucks for cheap ones, and wood doesn't seem like it would require a high powered system.  Hmmm.  Otherwise I'd say just dye the swamp ash the color you want and forget about grain filling.  Even cheaper...
Patrick

 

[-CB-]

Back in my millshop days we did that... and I'm trying to remember on what and for what reason.  It could have been ash, but I'm thinking it was cypress. 

Cypress is rather soft, and we were going for a real "aged" look.  As I recall we pickled the wood with a chemical that turned the cypress grey - weathered looking - then applied a satin sealer to hold off any further rapid aging. 

I think you can use any sand or glass media, short of the ultra coarse or ultra fine.  I had some really really powdery media we used on guns,  that literally took all shine and texture off the metal.... sorta shone like putty after that.  That would be way too fine.  But some medium-ish sand at low pressure, 20lbs maybe, and from a distance to not "concentrate" the effect and show stripes where you passed the nozzle.... 

I like that effect, very groovy.  <pun>

 

[jackthehack]

If it wasn't raining I'd dig out the test ash body and try this, an alternative method of getting a similar effect:

1.) Sand the body with the grain with really coarse sandpaper, like 80 grit
2.) Go back over it with the grain with a much finer paper, like #220 or finer on a sanding block, VERY lightly, so as to smooth back out the wood but not the deeper grain.

Would take a lot of elbow grease, but should work without needing a blasting setup if you don't have one....

 

[-CB-]

Cant we just do something "easy" like hang the guitar in the Iraq for a week? 

 

[DangerousR6]

Very cool, Jackson had a line of Dinky's they did like that in the late 90's. I got 2 of 'em...One blue and one weathered brown....

 

[Wyliee]

The F Bass ceruse finish is not a sand blasted finish.  I've owned several, including one black/gold ceruse finish.  It is not unlike the Warmoth enhanced grain finishes.

 

[Wana_make_a_guitar]

The F Bass ceruse finish is not a sand blasted finish.  I've owned several, including one black/gold ceruse finish.  It is not unlike the Warmoth enhanced grain finishes.

Maybe warmoth can start sandblasting then dying it.

 

[DocNrock]

That is a killer finish!  I'd love to see a Warlock or a Bich finished that way!

 

[Wyliee]

The F Bass ceruse finish is not a sand blasted finish.  I've owned several, including one black/gold ceruse finish.  It is not unlike the Warmoth enhanced grain finishes.

Maybe warmoth can start sandblasting then dying it.

Again, not sandblasted.  Just skip the grainfiller on swamp ash to get the textured feel.  Warmoth has done a few of those.

BTW, here's my old F Bass with ceruse' finish.  Grain fill with one color, shoot another. (Somewhat oversimplified, but the general idea.) Very smooth finish.  Completely different finish than the Warwick.

 

[Wana_make_a_guitar]

The F Bass ceruse finish is not a sand blasted finish.  I've owned several, including one black/gold ceruse finish.  It is not unlike the Warmoth enhanced grain finishes.

Maybe warmoth can start sandblasting then dying it.

Again, not sandblasted.  Just skip the grainfiller on swamp ash to get the textured feel.  Warmoth has done a few of those.

BTW, here's my old F Bass with ceruse' finish.  Grain fill with one color, shoot another. (Somewhat oversimplified, but the general idea.) Very smooth finish.  Completely different finish than the Warwick.

Ah yeah nice. If i ever take up bass, i might try it. But i gotta focus on my guitar.