Liner Notes 1. For the 20th Anniversary of Figures, my first instinct was to post an instance of the female form. But I'm trying to get over that. So music and wood are also loves of mine. Glass ... wood ... music. 2. This was completed around February of 2016, at a time when I was "taking a break" from ALT. I do come back here for the blogging. As for original purposes ... 3. This was over 3 years in the building, for I had to go to two different sources to finish the parts. 4. Specially pulled Hard Rock Maple top. Bloodwood neck. Finding someone to put a gloss coat on bloodwood was difficult. It is an oily wood -- sealing those is often just a no-no. 5. I hand drew the pickguard for my local Luthier, then he pulled out his French Curve, which he said he enjoyed using, to make the final cuts. The pickguard is a cream pearloid -- very difficult for a photo to do it justice. 6. The neck "profile" (the back contour of the neck, the part that sits in your palm -- { like a woman's ass } ) I hand shaped with a wood file and sandpaper. Assymetrical, hard V. Glorious (but it spoils you with other guitars). { Again, kinda like a woman's ass. } 7. Sits in a moulded, shaped TSA guitar case. 8. Gold Humbuckers, Hipshot Bridge, Grover 1:18 tuners. tgd

The nut is either black corian or that hi-tech substance. Black, to my eye, goes with black tuners. Though they don't currently have a stock Bloodwood neck, War* does have an interesting Bocate, a lovely Pau Ferro on top of Roasted Maple, and an amazingly figured Canary - *and* a fine Canary on Maple. (If standard members could drop pictures in comments I would, but I can't.) ... *and* a finely light Kingswood on Maple ... ... *and* (OMG!) a purplewood ... Tele ... on Maple ... in a *Baritone* neck! ( be the first to go low ) ... *and* (OMG again) some lovely Padouks, one on Maple. Thanks for visiting. tgd

Quoting aHedonist:

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i thought bloodwood would be too heavy for a neck but... okay. How much ya want, what size, and it'll be a couple or four months to get a container full to ya but we can probably find one or two dry things to suit ... somewhere in my mess.

Nice, I like it.

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Hey ... I suppose, in some sense, this has been my Butch Cassidy year, for I have repeatedly run into people and at the end of the involvement I think: "I'm a man of vision, and the world is wearing bi-focals.". I've talked to two different people about sourcing 100% unique, nobody fucking has it, don't you see the business opportunity here you moron, Aussie wood for their guitars. One group has been cheerful but never mentions it again, the other starts arguing with how it could never work. I suppose it is territorial and threatening to do something new. As for heaviness, you would know more than I. "Heavy" woods give a "richer" (i.e., more bottom end) tone than a hard light wood like maple. If you look closely at my guitar, you'll see the headstock is birdseye maple, which is a "tell" that the back of the neck - the foundation where the truss rod runs - is maple and only the fretboard is bloodwood. Perhaps bloodwood is never used for the neck spine. Or perhaps it is simply too rare here. Right now, Warmoth has no bloodwood. You have lots of it. Seems obvious, but ... I am at fault, and my Mother was right: "People are stupid." And I thought I had already learned that. Thanks for visiting. tgd

Quoting TheGentleD0M:

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The nut is either black corian or that hi-tech substance. Black, to my eye, goes with black tuners. Though they don't currently have a stock Bloodwood neck, War* does have an interesting Bocate, a lovely Pau Ferro on top of Roasted Maple, and an amazingly figured Canary - *and* a fine Canary on Maple. (If standard members could drop pictures in comments I would, but I can't.)

... *and* a finely light Kingswood on Maple ...

... *and* (OMG!) a purplewood ... Tele ... on Maple ... in a *Baritone* neck!
( be the first to go low )

... *and* (OMG again) some lovely Padouks, one on Maple.

Thanks for visiting.



tgd

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Quoting TheGentleD0M:

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The nut is either black corian or that hi-tech substance. Black, to my eye, goes with black tuners. Though they don't currently have a stock Bloodwood neck, War* does have an interesting Bocate, a lovely Pau Ferro on top of Roasted Maple, and an amazingly figured Canary - *and* a fine Canary on Maple. (If standard members could drop pictures in comments I would, but I can't.)

... *and* a finely light Kingswood on Maple ...

... *and* (OMG!) a purplewood ... Tele ... on Maple ... in a *Baritone* neck!
( be the first to go low )

... *and* (OMG again) some lovely Padouks, one on Maple.

Thanks for visiting.



tgd

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Quoting DancingDom:

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Some interesting combos. I tried putting one together today on the Warmoth site and it was almost a $600 neck alone. But I am pondering using one of these necks on the Nashville Tele offset body I had made. Of which, I am having a set of Joe Bardon Nashville Tele pickups, bridge and controls put in. SChaller locking strap pins. I have a Tele neck with better grade Fender Tuners, but the look of the neck on the above guitar gets me excited.

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Not to sound aristocratic, but you really can't do custom Warmoth building with one eye on the bottom line cost. Finding an amazing deal - especially because you are a righty - on existing stock is possible though. I found someone to seal the neck because I didn't want to lose the Red! of the bloodwood over time. Of course, buying a maple neck and then carefully staining the fretboard is another way to go -- and a way which I'm not sure why more people don't do. Thanks for visiting. tgd

Quoting DancingDom:

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Besides your tinkering with the heel of the neck, who made the neck?

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Warmoth. I believe that asymetrical headstock is unique to Warmoth. { I'm not sure what you mean in the beginning, though -- I did not do anything to the heel of the neck. } Thanks for visiting. tgd