Al's Single Cutaway - Blackwood Beauty

**peterbrown** · 30th March 2011, 01:06 PM

Thanks Fellas

Mark, OK sprung.

Should pay more attention to the background in the future. Check the new thread started for that build. Call it a sneak preview

Cheers

Peter

**peterbrown** · 26th April 2011, 10:33 PM

G'day,

Just dropped this one off over the Easter weekend.

Final Specs

Body - Chambered Blackwood with fiddleback blackwood carved top and matching backplate and maple highlights.
Binding - Flammed maple with paua purfling
Fretboard - Ebony with paua wave 12th fret inlay.
Neck - laminated blackwood with tapered fiddleback centre and maple highlights
Hardware - Shaller tuners and Gotoh 510 wrap around bridge
Pickups - PB vintage A5 missmatch in the neck and PB A2 Hot wound in the bridge. 3 way switch with coil tap.

Cheers,

Peter

**R3R** · 26th April 2011, 11:04 PM

tht's a classy beauty Peter!

**peterbrown** · 27th April 2011, 02:04 PM

Thanks,

More pics

Cheers

Peter

**woodturner777** · 27th April 2011, 06:21 PM

Very classy Peter, I bet your customer was very happy.
Cheers, Bob

**Tat_freak_2210** · 27th April 2011, 07:45 PM

that thing is fricken ridiculous! awesome!

**peterbrown** · 27th April 2011, 07:53 PM

Thanks Bob,

Yep he was very happy indeed. We put it through it's paces by winding out an old fender bassman. The tones were very smooth and rich. The neck pickup had deep clean tones which just creamed the valves. Nice mid tones which was highly attributed to the blackwood and being quite weighty it did have Alot of punch when played hard which is one of the great things about a single cut. The bridge pickup just growled but had a smooth overdrive. Bassmans are smooth anyway but the A2 pickup had a little less twang and not so punchy which added to the strong mid range you get with blackwood and complemented the timber well I thought especially with the overdrive pushed. Together the pickups stood bold and thick pushing the mids very prominently with definition in the highs and the lows just stood back ever so slightly however the lows could be pushed forward by rolling the volume slightly on the bridge pickup. To be honest the coil tap was nothing special, however it is not set up for single coil and really only had a place for clean tones offering a slightly brighter more articulated clean tone. All in all I was very happy as well and I will try and get Al to offer his feedback as well.

Thanks for watching

Peter

**peterbrown** · 27th April 2011, 07:57 PM

Originally Posted by Tat_freak_2210

that thing is fricken ridiculous! awesome!

Cheers glen. Got anything of your own going on?

**Tat_freak_2210** · 27th April 2011, 08:10 PM

i have been overly lazy lately. have a project or 2 on the table but mostly just thoughts at the moment! need to clean up my garage!! not a workable environment!

**andrewr79** · 27th April 2011, 08:51 PM

Beautiful work. You didn't happen to record anything with it before handing it over so we could hear it in action did you?

**peterbrown** · 27th April 2011, 08:55 PM

Originally Posted by andrewr79

Beautiful work. You didn't happen to record anything with it before handing it over so we could hear it in action did you?

Cheers Andrew. Sorry, no recording. Flat out getting it finished.

Peter

**woodturner777** · 5th May 2011, 10:26 PM

You must be feeling good Peter,
Hopefully Al might do a sound track one day.
Dont forget to send me the photos, Some magic stuff posted today for your next build.
Regards, Bob

**woodturner777** · 30th May 2011, 11:37 AM

Happy birthday Peter.
Cheers Bob

**walcen** · 30th May 2011, 12:51 PM

Happy Birthday Peter

regards

Wal

**peterbrown** · 30th May 2011, 11:43 PM

Thanks for the birthday greetings. And in the words of Jeff fenech "I love yoose all"

Cheers

Peter

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