Your putting a redwood cap on which has properties like maple (bright, strong high end) but slightly warmer.
in my experience (which only comes down to two mahogany and redwood guitars :oops:) redwood does not have a similar sound to maple at all. It is a fairly bright wood but in a very different way to the cutting (some would say harsh) brightness of maple. Its more zingy and acoustic like - very open sounding and rich.
The fingerboard/neck will be figured mahogany, in a way to match the koa; both the koa and the mahogany will be figured the same way. Supposedly that'll help me for better vibrations=better sound?
It will certainly look stunning, no doubt about that and thats reason enough to do it in my book... but in real terms it will sound just the same as an unfigured koa body with an unfigured mahogany neck. or any combination of the two for that matter
now if you wanted to accurately match wood vibrations between two pieces the only way to do it would be to use two consecutive planks from the same tree.. and even then there is no garantees they would vibrate in a similar way. Using two pieces from different species that happened to look the same will not give better vibrations or a better sound...
but it certainly wont give a worse one either. Sounds like MOJO to me, like if i started claiming all my guitars were made from wood cut down by naked nymphs whenever there is a full moon or something like that
I like the sound of this guitar and if the wood are coming from Gilmer they are sure to be the good stuff. I would stick with lower powered pickups like mules that really let the woody character of the redwood shine through. if you wanted higher powered stuff i wouldnt go higher than nailbombs.. i think they might just work in a guitar like this, should clean up nicely
