What to do with brand new sycamore?

[mgaut051]

I know I want a strat.

Single pickup seems interesting to me for some reason.

I'm already planning a 3p90, and a Tele Deluxe, so no real need to duplicate.

What do you prefer?

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[line6man]

Whatever you do, don't cover nice wood with plastic.

 

[Johnny]

The "4 tele neck pickups arranged into semi-humbuckers" is an interesting idea and looks kind of cool.  I know PRS makes one similar (actually it has 5 pickups with the four outside ones are set together) and I've always wondered what it would sound like.  Probably not significantly different, but it's a unique arrangement.

 

[mgaut051]

Whatever you do, don't cover nice wood with plastic.

Thanks! Could make a guard out of black dyed sycamore - I bet that would be awesome.

 

[swarfrat]

Nothing... for at least a couple years. You have until then to scheme and ponder.

 

[mgaut051]

Nothing... for at least a couple years. You have until then to scheme and ponder.

Thou'st are correct, fiend.

By the time I finish the teles, the soloist, the SE One... at least a decade.

 

[swarfrat]

I was kinda being tongue in cheek - taking 'brand new' to mean still green, as in you just had a huge tree in the back yard sawn up after it blew over in a storm.

 

[AutoBat]

None of the options mention finishing the body. Plain wood just always looks wrong.

 

[mgaut051]

I was kinda being tongue in cheek - taking 'brand new' to mean still green, as in you just had a huge tree in the back yard sawn up after it blew over in a storm.

I should probably get a moisture meter... I bought it from an urban lumber mill in Denver. Hard to tell how long it's been sawn, or if it's been kiln dried...

 

[mgaut051]

None of the options mention finishing the body. Plain wood just always looks wrong.

Does clear satin count?  ???

 

[swarfrat]

Autobat's opinion doesn't count - he doesn't even like gold hardware   Seriously though - on occasion I do like plain figured maple. But not many here do.

 

[AutoBat]

Wood colored wood? What fresh hell is this?

 

[mgaut051]

Autobat's opinion doesn't count - he doesn't even like gold hardware   Seriously though - on occasion I do like plain figured maple. But not many here do.

Wood colored wood? What fresh hell is this?

Lucky for me it's not maple, nor is it plain. The ray fleck is wild!

Hadn't even thought of gold hardware. That's a great idea! 

"would a distant relative of the maple, by any other name, look as bland? (without molten rays of the sun as it's accoutrement?)" - a certain Canadian bard.

 

[dmraco]

hollow....bound...dual p-90s :guitarplayer2:

 

[mgaut051]

hollow....bound...dual p-90s :guitarplayer2:

Or this?

 

[swarfrat]

As for the pickup selection - the only single single I've ever seen actually housed a JB jr.  I actually get enough kick out of my EMG SA's w/ the SPC to make a bridge single work just fine thank you - I like the edgey not totally mushed out tone I get that way. But if you go that route, it's probably the exception to my rule that singles always need a pickguard. No pickguard needs that much blank space.  I'd also prefer  it angled (or reverse angled) - and not quite so mashed up against the bridge.

 

[DangerousR6]

I like this...