guitarbuild doing free UK postage on some auctions

imalone

Not sure if they're doing this on ones they're struggling to get rid off or just something they're trying on new auctions, but haven't seen it before.
Nice alder strat-routed T shape: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/201169913467
Something called sugar pine:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FREE-UK-POSTAGE-GUITAR-BODY-SC-2-pc-Sugar-Pine-Lightweight-1-8-Kg-112727-/201169987987?pt=UK_Guitar_Accessories&hash=item2ed6aa6993
Represents nearly 1/3rd discount if you manage to get one near the starting price.
Must stop looking at ebay.

Edit, missed the sugar pine one is correspondingly more than their 'normal' starting bid (though seems to vary a bit by wood and number of pieces), but the T is still pretty good.

axisus

That sugar pine looks interesting! At £51 I won't be bothering though

Absentia

Some nice guitar bodies there  the telecaster bodies with the strat routing never seem to sell
if they want to clear their surplus stock any body over 2.00 kg needs to be auctioned with a lower starting price to move them on
 

ThePrettyDamned

The tele body with strat routes looks great, but I'm not sure what scratchplate fits - does a standard strat one fit?

I want a sugar pine tele.

BigMonka

Shame they haven't got a thinline tele :-(  There are some lovely bodies with contrasting wood inlays.

What's sugar pine? Is it supposed to be better than swamp ash (which I thought was the panacea for guitar bodies, lol).

imalone

Some American variety of pine, had to google it. You see pine on telecasters quite often, but not many people specify a species.

BigMonka

imalone said:

Some American variety of pine, had to google it. You see pine on telecasters quite often, but not many people specify a species.

I didn't think that pine was really strong enough to take the string tension unless its crazily thick, so I've learnt something new :-)

ThePrettyDamned

BigMonka;359659" said:

imalone said:

Some American variety of pine, had to google it. You see pine on telecasters quite often, but not many people specify a species.










I didn't think that pine was really strong enough to take the string tension unless its crazily thick, so I've learnt something new :-)

Apparently, a lot of the old old teles were pine.

They still work!

(info from my own thread about these. I'm getting one).

Absentia

1950 Fender used pine on the Esquires

imalone

The ultimate tdpri thread on pine: http://www.tdpri.com/forum/telecaster-discussion-forum/78112-pine-bodies-why-did-they-not-continue-them.html
It's certainly strong enough for bodies, but all the pine I've ever met (in furniture) dents easily. There are different types, and sugar pine is (so t'internet leads me to believe) is one of the stronger ones, hence used for guitars, but still soft enough to dent. I've seen a few nice looking pine builds.

Absentia said:

1950 Fender used pine on the Esquires

Ah, had always thought it was broadcasters, but looks like you're right. Esquires before they were esquires though, basically the first model of the tele/esquire.

ThePrettyDamned

I'm going to take a punt on one I think. I won't be able to afford hardware or anything for a while but it's a cheap bit of fun, right? I love using wudtone anyway.