Wild Maple

[whyachi]

I can't find any pricing or mention of wild maple on the Warmoth website. Is it just that rare or something? I was lookign for a one-piece maple top on a Jazz, one similar to the blue LP that won the last contest.

 

[Jet-Jaguar]

I found this one under "quilt maple" in the Jazz Master body builder.  I'm not sure if it's wild, but it's Wild-esque.

http://www.warmoth.com/Select/Images/Large/LT581a.jpg

 

[-CB-]

Wild maple is generally dark, not light.  The top I have is VERY dark, almost mahogany color.  Heck... hold on, I'll snap a pic

 

[-CB-]

There ya be, classic wild maple

 

[whyachi]

That's perfect. I just want it in one-piece format. Symmetry and visible seams bother me. I like the chaos of that kind of maple. If I could get it on a one-piece maple back.. I don't know how big of pieces maple comes in for them to work with.

I've been on the forums for a few months. I average a new, "Wow, that's perfect and now I totally know what I want to build," moment weekly.

 

[-CB-]

FWIW, that one is a thinline.. no f/hole and has a sweet as can be vintage construction goncalo neck.  You can tell it gets played a lot too

 

[hannaugh]

It's gonna be hard to find a 1 piece.  I don't think I've ever seen one on the site, and I frequently search for wild maple stuff because it's my favorite.  They do have 4 book matched tops in the Strat area right now though, and if you let em know which one you want, they can probably put it on a bass.  Wild maple wasn't offered as a top for Les Pauls when I got mine, but I asked if they could use a top from the Strat section and they did it for me.

 

[jackthehack]

Call Warmoth and check, but be advised it will be very expensive (you could make about 7 lam tops from the same blank and need one large enough for a bass body) and could be relatively heavy. Last I saw something like that was actually a 2 piece bookmatched solid flame Strat body that went for around a grand before the prices started shooting up for figured maple.

 

[whyachi]

I'm not sold enough on it to drop a grand for a pretty face. Maybe I'll just go ash. That always looks good naked.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

Check the "Unique Choice" woods section.  There's things in there that may not be on the normal price guide.  From Wild Maple to Ash is a big jump though.  There's Quilt, Flame, and Birdseye (my personal favorite), as well as different A grades with different pricing.  One little trick too, Warmoth usually doesn't have just plain vanilla Maple, but Alder may work as it is sometimes a plain Maple look-a-like.

 

[-CB-]

It's gonna be hard to find a 1 piece.

That would be a rare bird indeed.  Not unseen... but very few, very very costly.

 

[whyachi]

Maybe I wasn't being clear. I wasn't wanting a one-piece wild maple BODY, just a one-piece top on a plain maple body.

 

[Alfang]

we know exactly what you meant

 

[-CB-]

Just to be clear - we know

 

[whyachi]

Sorry yall I work in a call center and the only constant truth is that everything needs to be clarified.