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30th April 2013, 01:57 PM #1
Blackwood and Qld Maple Semi-hollow
Hi all,
This is an electric I finished for the missus about a month ago now I think. Specs are:
- Compression blackwood top
- Qld maple body
- Ebony fingerboard, 21 fret
- PNG rosewood, Qld maple, jarrah and mystery wood neck
- Gold MOP inlays
- Grover machine heads, Gotoh bridge
- Opal triplet and ebony headstock inlay
The neck was finished with tung oil and carnauba wax, and the body was done with five or six brushed coats of ubeaut hard shellac.
I really need to invest in some more power tools, doing this thing with mostly hand tools, plunge router and dremel was a killer
Sorry about the mediocre pics, it was hard to capture much wood figure or the colours in the opal, and I'm not too hot with a phone camera
Thanks for looking
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30th April 2013, 03:36 PM #2New Member
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wow I love it. Very nice. Love the whole look...but tell us how awesome it plays/sounds
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30th April 2013, 03:36 PM #3
Nice. I love the inlaid opal and the sound hole shapes.
A question if you don't mind. What's 'compression' Blackwood?... Steve
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30th April 2013, 07:26 PM #4Member
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Whoah lots to like here! Great job
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30th April 2013, 10:41 PM #5
Thanks guys. Lildrummerboy, the action is about as close to the fingerboard without ending up with fret buzz - barely needs to have a string touched to play (as requested by the missus). Sounds mostly like an ES335, but to my ears a little warmer I think. The pickups are "Tonerider" brand, it's the first time I've tried them but they sound great and they're a good price.
Hermit, I'm not 100% sure on what the compression blackwood is, the figuring just looked really good It came from Bob at Tasmanian Tonewoods, so he might be a better one to ask on that, but from memory the figuring comes about from the compression of the wood under a large branch on the trunk.
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30th April 2013, 10:52 PM #6
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12th May 2013, 10:37 AM #7
Nice work. Very original.
cheers
Steve
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12th May 2013, 10:43 AM #8
nice piece of work.
Any chance of a sound file?Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? -- Sun Tzu
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14th May 2013, 05:40 PM #9
I'll see if I can get a sound file up by the end of the week
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24th May 2013, 08:53 AM #10
not sure what bob means by "compression" blackwood - but as i understand it wood grain in the lower sections of a really big tree are under compression from the huge weight of the tree - being under compression the grain is forced into the familiar fiddle back patterns we prize so highly
nice guitar BTW - i love the fender style hardtail bridge / flat top / humbucker combo - i also like the toneriders - seen a few sets through here recently and they are very goodray c
dunno what's more fun, buyin' the tools or usin' em'
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