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Are you wood-venturous?

I likes me the normal stuff
5 (16.7%)
I tend toward that but I'll give somthing else a chance with pursuation from a source I trust
8 (26.7%)
I'm up for anything 'tonewood' is a misnomer
17 (56.7%)

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gingataff

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Re: unconventional woods
« Reply #45 on: October 27, 2009, 01:07:43 PM »
Quote from: Bob Johnson on October 21, 2009, 04:44:42 PM
Since then I've done more research on it; there's tons of stuff on the net and there's even a guy in Japan that produces replicas of all the bridge and trem parts as well as complete guitars.

That's Kazutaka at K'z guitar works. His Red Special Pro was amazing (but I guess too expensive to continue to make). Here's an English link http://www.kzguitarworks.com/englishpages/e_products.html and a Japanese one for Cap'nDesslock http://www.kzguitarworks.com/

Back to woods, I'm really intrigued by Godin and their silver leaf maple/poplar bodies. Has anyone tried one?
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Re: unconventional woods
« Reply #46 on: October 27, 2009, 02:19:11 PM »
Quote from: gingataff on October 27, 2009, 01:07:43 PM
Back to woods, I'm really intrigued by Godin and their silver leaf maple/poplar bodies. Has anyone tried one?

I really Godin guitars; they're always stretching the envelope with the things they do. Maple and poplar mixes work really well; one version of BB King's "Lucille" was a maple / poplar / maple sandwich.


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Re: unconventional woods
« Reply #47 on: October 27, 2009, 05:12:23 PM »
Quote from: gingataff on October 27, 2009, 01:07:43 PM
Back to woods, I'm really intrigued by Godin and their silver leaf maple/poplar bodies. Has anyone tried one?

yeah, but ages back. I can't really remember much about it, other than I liked it. I wish there were more godin dealers here in ireland, they're one of those "good value" brands which it seems like the shops don't want you to know about... :lol: Only thing I don't like is that it's a pretty steep mark-up for the ones with figured tops, and they're only a veneer too, I think. Of course, the ones with the figured tops look much nicer... :lol:
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Re: unconventional woods
« Reply #48 on: October 29, 2009, 11:19:24 AM »
A mate of mine, very good guitarist, swears by his godin.

Alas I've never played one.
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Re: unconventional woods
« Reply #49 on: October 29, 2009, 04:55:59 PM »
I have a couple of guitars which are not quite standard materials. A Gibson blueshawk which is similar to the bb guitar bob mentioned with popular and maple body. Also the first guitar I built due to what I could get my hands on was Padauk body with bublinga neck and ebony board, and it sounds great though being a single coil sort of strat style I might change the neck at sometime as with the very hardwood of the body and the ebony board can make it a bit to bright and with if anything to much attack.
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Re: unconventional woods
« Reply #50 on: October 29, 2009, 06:45:10 PM »
Quote from: MDV on October 29, 2009, 11:19:24 AM
Alas I've never played one.

have you secretly been reading lord of the rings again?
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