Vintage and antique guitar woods

[river]

With the recent trend of roasted woods claiming to be similar to aged wood, I thought I would offer some of my own real antique woods. Build a new guitar with old wood, and you get a classic sound!
www.riverratblanks.com

 

[bagman67]

With no disrespect intended, River, we'd love for you to participate more meaningfully in the forum before peddling your wares.  We really value the fact that many of the active participants have put effort into getting to know one another and developing trust.  Leading with a sales pitch is not really consonant with the vibe we strive to uphold.  Please share with us beyond your commercial efforts.  If you've built guitars out of some of your antique wood, please share your experiences with that (and we are drooling net-dorks, which means we love photos, too).  We are a pretty curious and welcoming bunch, really.

 

[river]

Sure thing! I absolutely plan to contribute to other threads, just wanted to put this up for people to see. I'm currently building four strats but waiting on better weather to spray the nitro. These are what they will be:

Featherweight (3 lb, 6 oz) alder strat, one-piece maple neck
Air dried alder one piece body (3 lbs 13 oz) strat, 24.75" scale 1750's maple and Brazilian rosewood fretboard
Featherweight (2 lbs 15 oz) swamp ash strat, white korina short scale neck, 1750's maple fretboard
Heavy one piece black korina strat, 1950's African mahogany neck, Madagascar rosewood fretboard

All with Callaham trems and hardware, Raw Vintage springs, bone nuts, and Gotoh kluson tuners. Pickups still undecided. Swamp ash bodies and mahogany necks are an uncommon combination but sound really great. It's all about putting together the right recipe. And Warmoth is the place to get featherweight alder and swamp ash bodies!

 

[spauldingrules]

LOL Tonedial.  Good luck with that.