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Yeah I know, I haven't quite finished the Korina one yet... I will get to that soon.
But regardless I started on one of my African Walnut blanks today.. And like the Korina one I cut the body so the lines are vertical rather than horizontal.
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I know you don't want to hear my concerns about having the grain direction going the wrong way, but i am surprised you didn't fully test the idea before committing to another
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Im not sure it will make much difference.. And you are right I probably should have waited but we will soon find out.
I think it will be ok..
Oh and I do want to say.. I do actually respect and welcome all opinions... If I seem to be not worried about it, its cos im not really.. I take my building seriously but I just love trying different things and I wont know till I try. I obviously wouldn't do this for a customer (well unless they asked of course), these are thing I want to build and try out.. The next one I make will be more "normal" ish
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the strat body I am doing is my 3rd African walnut guitar.
my dad made a coffee table with the stuff at school. As kids we carved our names into the top with blunt pen knives, and even then it was obvious to me how easily the wood worked.
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Ohh yes.. VERY VERY nice to work with... Reminds me very much of good mahogany ive worked with before.... And I was told this Walnut is old growth too for what ever that's actually worth...
Cant wait to get both these builds playing..
So do you basically think that it may end up a bit of a dead guitar cos of the opposing grains... ?
(also I have another bit of walnut too so if this doesn't work at least I can still make a nice Walnut guitar, the normal way
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1) long term stability. Wood moves a lot more across the grain than along it. It's also a lot stronger along than across. Is is anisotropic. Short term, it will certainly work in solid body dimensions. Long term, who knows. I don't see any benefit, but possible issues down the line
2) yeah, It's that harder to pin down topic of wood vibration. My gut feeling is this will dampen the link between body and neck. It will certainly change it in some way. I could be wrong, I would like to see chladni patterns compared with a similar guitar. Could be a good or bad change, but I would expect a noticeable one.
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Or in other terms... I picked up an unsharpened plane to do the forearm contour on my build earlier. It worked just like a freshly sharpened plane would on mahogany
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Yes this is kind of where im coming from...
Stability wise I really don't think its going to make a difference.. So far ive tried a few weird things (like my half and half) and its all been ok.. So I have faith.. The benefit, I reckon its going to look REALLY frikken cool.. Like an alternative to the flamed maple look.
And yes.. The whole topic of how much the vibration of the wood actually has on an electric guitar is so vague that I just don't know whats going to happen.. As you say it could be good or bad (or just neither and will sound normal) and I cant wait to find out
I know some people may think im a bit bonkers.. but I can live with that
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although i I really don't see that one anyway. it messes with the OCD portion of my brain in some weird way.
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Of course none of this is the big question.. The big question now is what hardware to choose to put on it
Right now im thinking something like this
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Im still thinking about the hardware for this build..
I came up with this.. And even though I usually stay away from gold hardware.. Its kind of growing on me
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Failing that I will probably go for this
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Because I suspect the same as you.. But in doing this I will KNOW for sure..... Maybe everyone has thought the same thing and never bothered to try?
Why do humans do anything we don't have to.. Cos we can
I cant help myself.. Once I get an idea in my head that's it.. I need to know.
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The thing is that they are only very rough mock ups... Theres no walnut in the selection so I went for what looks closest. Im wondering if it would still look as good having darker wood or it may make the whole thing too dark. And obviously having the grain going vertically may make a difference too.....
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Yeah actually thinking about other examples.. One other gold finish guitar I don't mind is the obvious LP Black Beauty.. and that's as dark as you get
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