Composite body guitars

[WezV]

i have been looking for this one online, decided just to take a pic of the book, its a larry robinson  (famous inlay guy) guitar from the 80's

this is more how i think the PRS chesapeake should be done, but who am i to say that - i cant afford one anyway ;)

[FernandoDuarte]

What is on the neck of the 'blue' Wez? :D

[MDV]

i have been looking for this one online, decided just to take a pic of the book, its a larry robinson  (famous inlay guy) guitar from the 80's

this is more how i think the PRS chesapeake should be done, but who am i to say that - i cant afford one anyway ;)

Thats more like it. Aside from the shape, which is clearly daft. And the graphic. And a multiply body, not just with the veneer on it. Yes. Is good.

[WezV]

it looks like 3 layers , the black wood top looks to be about 1/8" thick - probably a spare acoustic back.   i would done it with a brighter middle layer like paduak or purpleheart that was about 1/4" and you would see some real contrast in the layers. 

Fernando - i think the neck on that one was ovankgol with santos rosewood fretboard

[MDV]

Barely 3 layers. Mine will be somewhat more obvious :D

[WezV]

good lad ;)

[ToneMonkey]

I have a sheet of carbon fibre in the shed.  You can't have a composite discussion without carbon fibre  :D

Was thinking of topping an axe with it (and the neck), but it may be useful for another project.

[MDV]

All specced up now.

Am excited *bounce bounce*

[gingataff]

Jerry Garcia had a guitar with a Tiger inlay in the body top that had a body and various other parts made of layered (composite) tonewoods and I was trying to find some pics of it to show Mark. Since this type of construction is frequently used in bass guitars I thought it might be interesting to explore the possibilities with a long scale guitar. The basic proposition is that this type of structure has a lower resonant frequency which would be ideal for a longer scale. There are loads of pics out there that purport to be replicas of the Jerry Garcia Tiger but none of them have a body and headstock laminated from Maple and (I think) purpleheart like the one I saw many years ago.

Here's a page with some pics of the Tiger. http://www.dozin.com/jers/guitars/tiger/info.html

[Bob Johnson]

Jerry Garcia had a guitar with a Tiger inlay in the body top that had a body and various other parts made of layered (composite) tonewoods and I was trying to find some pics of it to show Mark. Since this type of construction is frequently used in bass guitars I thought it might be interesting to explore the possibilities with a long scale guitar. The basic proposition is that this type of structure has a lower resonant frequency which would be ideal for a longer scale. There are loads of pics out there that purport to be replicas of the Jerry Garcia Tiger but none of them have a body and headstock laminated from Maple and (I think) purpleheart like the one I saw many years ago.

Here's a page with some pics of the Tiger. http://www.dozin.com/jers/guitars/tiger/info.html

That's the one; pity there aren't any shots of the back of the headstock that's also laminated up so the heel behind the headstock is also layered. Thanks for that. :D