Some projects - non-Warmoth wood porn
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OK. Opinions please.
Original plan was to do a trad 3-saddle tele bridge but the bridge lies in the middle of a burl cluster so I was going to go with a Strat Kinman Blues set (black not white covers pictured) and a recessed TOM - I know, not a tele set-up. However, I'm not sure the 3 singles works and there's so much burl that a tele bridge might not be so bad. What d'ya reckon?
OK. Opinions please.
Original plan was to do a trad 3-saddle tele bridge but the bridge lies in the middle of a burl cluster so I was going to go with a Strat Kinman Blues set (black not white covers pictured) and a recessed TOM - I know, not a tele set-up. However, I'm not sure the 3 singles works and there's so much burl that a tele bridge might not be so bad. What d'ya reckon?
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Do a half Tele bridge, you can get them at taipantone.com in any metal you choose. Spare the wood, but save the Tele look.
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NO TOP ROUTE, BUGGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You makes me cry putting a ugly plate on this top!!!!
You makes me cry putting a ugly plate on this top!!!!
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Agreed, no top rout. Go with the 3 single strat layout, and string thru bridge... :icon_thumright:NonsenseTele said:
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Let's not get our burls in a bunch here. Brother- you are making guitars out of stumps. I commend you. I love what you are doing and it's striking the most primal chord in my soul. The only other thing that can resonate this way is BBQ, my friend.
I grew up in a town just outside of New Orleans, LA. My neighbor had a wood shop out back and there were swamps all around. He would always haul out huge pieces of fallen cypress from beneath the swamps, dry them out, and make furniture from them. I always admired that and it's where my passion for this sort of thing developed. Keep up the good work and I'm excited to see how these thigns turn out.
I grew up in a town just outside of New Orleans, LA. My neighbor had a wood shop out back and there were swamps all around. He would always haul out huge pieces of fallen cypress from beneath the swamps, dry them out, and make furniture from them. I always admired that and it's where my passion for this sort of thing developed. Keep up the good work and I'm excited to see how these thigns turn out.
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DangerousR6 said:
yes to the top route, show off that wood that you've got.
Absolutely NO to the strat layout. Get some tele pickups/bridge for that tele...
Posting my bass update seems to have resurrected the amboyna query... :laughing11:
My latest thoughts were to put the Kinmans in the rosewood body with a Schatten piezo-equipped rosewood archtop/jazz bridge.... and put a humbucker or two in the tele with a recessed TOM.
I've had a bit of a clear out of pickups so all I have 'in stock' now is
- a set of Bareknuckle Warpigs (now out of my Soloist) with distressed covers
- a Bareknuckle Painkillaaaaaaaah bridge pickup in black (untried in anything yet)
- the Kinman Blues set
Oh, and some 7 string Blackouts :icon_biggrin:
Was thinking of the Warpigs or the painkiller with A.N. Other neck pickup, maybe even single-sized. Gonna thin the body down a bit more, too, to save a bit of weight - wll take it from the back.
Sorry, bit of a ramble...
Bass is assembled, awaiting a stereo jack socket, btw.
My latest thoughts were to put the Kinmans in the rosewood body with a Schatten piezo-equipped rosewood archtop/jazz bridge.... and put a humbucker or two in the tele with a recessed TOM.
I've had a bit of a clear out of pickups so all I have 'in stock' now is
- a set of Bareknuckle Warpigs (now out of my Soloist) with distressed covers
- a Bareknuckle Painkillaaaaaaaah bridge pickup in black (untried in anything yet)
- the Kinman Blues set
Oh, and some 7 string Blackouts :icon_biggrin:
Was thinking of the Warpigs or the painkiller with A.N. Other neck pickup, maybe even single-sized. Gonna thin the body down a bit more, too, to save a bit of weight - wll take it from the back.
Sorry, bit of a ramble...
Bass is assembled, awaiting a stereo jack socket, btw.
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I think how many less things you put to distract the eyes from the wood, better... Simple hardtail or Tele bridge, two pickups... two knobs and a switch... that's the receipt of the victory, IMO....
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Shazam! That mahogany back is sure pretty - I think I like it even better than the top.
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Thanks, guys. I really like the effect, too. It's just Danish Oil (4 coats of antique pine tinted oil, two coats of UV resistant 'outdoor' oil). I'm moving toward using some more mahogany, having thought it was a bit boring and 'furniture-y' until I oiled it. I have some more pieces like this body and a quilty-figured 2" thick body blank.
Shazam! That mahogany back is sure pretty - I think I like it even better than the top.
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rossalex said:
Thanks, guys. I really like the effect, too. It's just Danish Oil (4 coats of antique pine tinted oil, two coats of UV resistant 'outdoor' oil). I'm moving toward using some more mahogany, having thought it was a bit boring and 'furniture-y' until I oiled it. I have some more pieces like this body and a quilty-figured 2" thick body blank.
I have an idea!
Make the tele control plate out of ebony, and inlay amboyna burl into it, leaving 1/8" of ebony peeking all around, and go for a TOM bridge, with an archtop style tailpiece, again, made out of ebony, with inlaid amboyna.... Ok, maybe that's a little too much, but I agree that when you're that sexy, you walk around naked. All the time.
Rear-rout, with a rotary selector switch, wood knobs (some of that sapwood would be awesome! With the bottom of the knobs heart and the top sap...)
Flat bridge - dont know why an acoustic style bridge is coming to mind... but maybe one of these:
Cover the least burl possible with pups - p90s? Stick with the tele style pups, and the open routs just mean you can see more of that gorgeous wood!
You have some tough decisions to make!
Make the tele control plate out of ebony, and inlay amboyna burl into it, leaving 1/8" of ebony peeking all around, and go for a TOM bridge, with an archtop style tailpiece, again, made out of ebony, with inlaid amboyna.... Ok, maybe that's a little too much, but I agree that when you're that sexy, you walk around naked. All the time.
Rear-rout, with a rotary selector switch, wood knobs (some of that sapwood would be awesome! With the bottom of the knobs heart and the top sap...)
Flat bridge - dont know why an acoustic style bridge is coming to mind... but maybe one of these:
Cover the least burl possible with pups - p90s? Stick with the tele style pups, and the open routs just mean you can see more of that gorgeous wood!
You have some tough decisions to make!
mgaut051 said:
Thanks for the ideas... I'll rear rout any controls to keep as much of the burl as possible uninterrupted.
Not excited by either of those bridges, I'm afraid.
Last nights decison was ashtay tele bridge and Nocasters, but funny you should say 'acoustic' because today's thought has been one of these....
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Gibson-Rosewood-Acoustic-guitar-bridge_W0QQitemZ160403208373QQ
... and copying the nylon strung-piezo idea (under saddle, for that bridge), no magnetic pickups (obviously) and no controls. But I'm not sure what it'll sound like - very dense wood with no hollow chambers at all. :icon_scratch:
Keep the ideas coming, guys. Plenty of thinking time yet. I need to make the neck before I drill or rout anthing else on the body.