Warmoth Laminating?

[oldlefty]

Does anyone know if or how many laminations Warmoth will do on a body?  I'm "enginering" a Garcia-type body which would be based upon the WGD.  Garcia's guitars were made with the "hippie sandwich" design that included a maple body, usually a cocobolo top and bottom, and sometimes two or three 1/28" layers sandwiched between the seams.  Can or will Warmoth do something like that for a buyer?

 

[bagman67]

I think the closest approximation you can get from Warmoth is likely to be a solid body with a laminated top, and a pinstripe layer between the top and the body.  See:  http://www.warmoth.com/Guitar/Bodies/Options/BindingOptions.aspx (near the bottom) and http://www.warmoth.com/Guitar/Bodies/Options/LaminateTop.aspx

Peace

Bagman

 

[Wyliee]

Depending on the body style, it can also be possible to do a back laminte and accent line.  Additional charges do apply.

 

[OzziePete]

For those who don't know what the 'hippie sandwich' is about this a shot of an Alembic Tribute with 7 laminations of wood making the body.

(sadly it is not one of my guitars!)

 

[erock]

someone did a maple core with cocobolo top and back. Here's the thread

http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=8823.msg125897#msg125897


only thing is, didn't warmoth stop using cocobolo?

 

[bpmorton777]

what a waste of flamed maple....to have it covered by the other wood.

Brian

 

[bagman67]

Depending on the body style, it can also be possible to do a back laminte and accent line.  Additional charges do apply.

Thanks, Wyliee - I stand corrected.

Bagman

 

[tubby.twins]

only thing is, didn't warmoth stop using cocobolo?

That's what the website says, but recently I've been seeing pictures of beautiful cocobolo tops on all sorts of new bodies.  I dunno.  Maybe that was just for neck wood only?

 

[-CB-]

They've had ash bodies with double laminated - top and bottom, and binding... on the showcase before.  I was sooooo close to getting that ash body with flame maple top and back.  So close.  I had to hide my VISA till it moved!