Can dry looking rosewood be "rescued"?

[Philly Q]

My feeling of guiltness by making you buy both bodies are falling, so I'll start to bug you about it :lol:

 :lol: :lol: :lol:

That really did make me laugh out loud!

I'll probably break down eventually....

I would go for a Fender-lookalike word on the logo (I know Phil King has Fecker), but I can't think of a word that actually means anything to me.

[FernandoDuarte]

As promised, I've solved the problem :lol:

For the purple:

http://www.warmoth.com/showcase/sc_guitar_necks.cfm?type=guitar&start=1&menuItem=11&itemNumber=SN4888&subMenuItem=0&subMenuItem2=0&backContour_filter=9
For the natural:

http://www.warmoth.com/showcase/sc_guitar_necks.cfm?type=guitar&start=1&menuItem=11&itemNumber=SN4512&subMenuItem=0&subMenuItem2=0&backContour_filter=9#

I believe some guy can make Philly looks very near Fender :D
None more custom, don't you agree?

[Philly Q]

 :) Not bad, not bad...

The maple is a problem, I'd need to get unfinished if I wanted to do "rolled" fingerboard edges.

For the rosewood, I don't want vintage tint because it would look funny on the natural ash body.  And birdseye is too pretty.  I'm going to surprise you now, because I'm actually considering some different timbers  :o :

Pau Ferro:



http://www.warmoth.com/showcase/sc_guitar_necks.cfm?type=guitar&itemNumber=SN4382&backContour_filter=9

And Kingwood:



http://www.warmoth.com/showcase/sc_guitar_necks.cfm?type=guitar&itemNumber=SN4530&backContour_filter=9

[Will]

They have Brazilian boards :? Now very confused.

[FernandoDuarte]

Will, yes, but they can't send Brazilian RW outside USA... I would bet they have a big stock or can buy it from some guys who make plantation of it, because there is pratically none left on wild forests... (it's not from Amazon, before you ask)


Phill, I think that vintage tint would look the best with the natural guitar, as it's not very white, but yellow... And that one I picked is not THAT yellow vintage
And you don't need to get it unfinished to round the edge of the frets :D

[FernandoDuarte]

I'm going to surprise you now, because I'm actually considering some different timbers  :o :

Ahhh with a little more effort from me, you'll have an Wenge neck with Macassar Ebony fingerboard... probably with a maple veneer on the headstock, but it's still ALL EXOTIC :twisted:

[FernandoDuarte]

Preview, looking good to me...

[Philly Q]

Phill, I think that vintage tint would look the best with the natural guitar, as it's not very white, but yellow... And that one I picked is not THAT yellow vintage

The natural shade of mine is more light brown than yellow - it looks OK with a very slightly tinted maple neck, but definitely not anything orange like an Eric Johnson!


OK, just an off-the-wall idea - what do you think of this?

[Will]

Headstock looks wrong, and the single coils aren't at enough of an angle there :P

[Philly Q]

Headstock looks wrong, and the single coils aren't at enough of an angle there :P

Oh, I couldn't be bothered to arse about getting the pickups perfect.  :P

I think the Tele headstock looks surprisingly cool (although kisekae have got the shape a bit wrong).  Tommy Bolin had a Strat with a Tele neck.

[FernandoDuarte]

It looks fine Phill, if you've told me it before I saw the pic I would say "should be hideous" as usually I don't like mixing parts, but looking at it, I think it's ok!

EDIT: Yes, looking at your thread of the bodies, it looks less yellow than this one I had picture...

[WezV]

i like it - - but my first ever squire strat ended up stripped down, torty scratchplate and maple tele neck so it kind of looks familiar to me.  Just remember the difference in neck pockets between strats and tele's if you do go that way

[Philly Q]

i like it - - but my first ever squire strat ended up stripped down, torty scratchplate and maple tele neck so it kind of looks familiar to me.   Just remember the difference in neck pockets between strats and tele's if you do go that way

 :) Yeah, in this case I'd round off the heel of the Tele neck, rather than carving up the pocket in the Strat body - the overhanging 22nd fret would hide the mess.   And I'd have the option of changing to a conventional Strat neck at a later date.

[AndyR]

Allen Collins used a tele necked strat as well :D

(Not saying I'm crazy about it, but it's a very good precedent :lol:)

[Kilby]

I like the tele necked version