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Airborne

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Warpig in Mahogany body?
« on: April 12, 2009, 05:03:53 PM »
Ok, as the subject suggests, I'm getting a custom guitar and I'm thinking about a Mahagony neck thru, with mahagony/maple neck and ebony fretboard and wondering if a warpig would work in this setup or would there be too much low end?  The sound I'm going for is a thick but bright tone with a balanced eq.  I'm not set in my ways so I'm completely open to opinion and suggestions. 
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Re: Warpig in Mahogany body?
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2009, 05:07:15 PM »
Is it a Les Paul or a (Super) Strat type shape?

The amount of wood matters. Cold Sweats and Nailbombs seem to work in Les Pauls, for example.
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Re: Warpig in Mahogany body?
« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2009, 05:13:02 PM »
Depends on the amount of maple vs mahogany in the through, and the quality of the ebony

The fact that the wings are mahogany is niether here nor there - wings make up only a tiny part of the tone of through necks - they are dominated by the neck wood.
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Re: Warpig in Mahogany body?
« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2009, 06:05:10 PM »
Sorry, I should have been more specific.

The body is a super strat style, 25.5" scale, 42mm nut width, 19mm thick at 1st fret, 21 at the 12th with a kahler 2300 pro trem bridge.  It's a Custom Ran so the quality of wood is fine and I figure the wings are gonna be mahagony.
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Re: Warpig in Mahogany body?
« Reply #4 on: April 12, 2009, 06:10:11 PM »
You still havent given us what we need to know!

How much maple and how much mahogany in the through neck?
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Re: Warpig in Mahogany body?
« Reply #5 on: April 12, 2009, 06:24:28 PM »
If I'm right in thinking that the neck and body centre are going to be maple, then based on the ESP I had, which was a maple thru neck with mahogany wings and a rosewood board + Floyd Rose, I'd say there wouldn't be too much bass at all with Warpigs. I had them in the ESP for a good while, and they worked well to counter the inherent high-end of the maple.

For what it's worth, i now have the same pickups in a Soloist style guitar, maple neck, ebony board bolt-on, with a mahogany/koa body, and they're well balanced in that too.
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Re: Warpig in Mahogany body?
« Reply #6 on: April 12, 2009, 06:28:27 PM »
Oh, and can you give us some refference sounds to go by?
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Re: Warpig in Mahogany body?
« Reply #7 on: April 12, 2009, 06:30:58 PM »
BUT i've got a warpig in a mahogany les paul studio (that's very mid-heavy, though) and it's not dark at all... so i'd say that a neckthrough with some maple in it should be ok...
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Re: Warpig in Mahogany body?
« Reply #8 on: April 12, 2009, 06:33:12 PM »
I agree, dheim, but that depends on what the guy wants from it.

Pigs dont mud up, but they can get too much low end for some peoples tastes.
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Re: Warpig in Mahogany body?
« Reply #9 on: April 12, 2009, 08:46:48 PM »
The SLSMG in my avatar is maple neck-through with mahogany wings and an ebony fretboard with a set of AV Warpigs and I love them!  I've been tuning it to Eb but my next string change I'm going to tune it down, to what I'm not sure yet.
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Re: Warpig in Mahogany body?
« Reply #10 on: April 13, 2009, 12:22:24 PM »
go for the warpig!
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Re: Warpig in Mahogany body?
« Reply #11 on: April 13, 2009, 03:02:26 PM »

What do you think  about the Warpig(in bridge position) on a Gibson Sg Standard??

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Re: Warpig in Mahogany body?
« Reply #12 on: April 13, 2009, 07:50:15 PM »
Quote from: -Oby- on April 13, 2009, 03:02:26 PM

What do you think  about the Warpig(in bridge position) on a Gibson Sg Standard??



it's right where it's supposed to be!
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Re: Warpig in Mahogany body?
« Reply #13 on: April 13, 2009, 08:25:59 PM »
It's going to depend on the natural acoustics of your axe, but on paper the maple neck, especially being neck-thru, should be the dominant tone wood in your combination.  I imagine w/an ebony board that axe will have plenty of bite too.  Mahogany at times can be too boomy in the low-mids to mix well with Warpigs, but I would suspect that the mahogany won't play such a big role in your built as to be too much of a concern.  Being as the guitar isn't built yet it's going to be impossible to know for sure, but IMO on paper the Warpigs would go nicely in that axe.   
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Re: Warpig in Mahogany body?
« Reply #14 on: April 18, 2009, 06:26:53 PM »
Quote from: MDV on April 12, 2009, 06:10:11 PM
You still havent given us what we need to know!

How much maple and how much mahogany in the through neck?

Hey sorry it's been awhile, i've been swamped at work.  Well, my question's pretty much been answered but just for the hell of it the neck is a 4 to 1 ratio of maple to mahogany
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