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exotic wood strat project finished
« on: January 15, 2011, 07:48:59 PM »
well, more exotic than a normal strat, but still not as exotic as some woods...

body: mahogany (one piece, made in UK)
neck: bubinga (warmoth)
fingerboard: ebony
pickups: BKP Sultans

it sounds raunchy as hell, and fat too. the neck pickup is quite mellow for a strat, fluid and rich.. i hope it will still cut live.

i put it together myself, and oiled/waxed the body. unfortunately i was a bit over-eager and put the pickguard on a touch crooked. i'll fix that at some point.

after i fitted the neck, i was a bit disappointed with the warmoth fret dress, so i took it to feline guitars. no surprise there: hes done his usual great job.

i wanted a really hard rocking strat sound, like in tokyo tapes, or the tone paul gilbert gets from his fireman. i chose the neck and body woods with this in mind. i just like the feel of ebony.. so ;) its still early days, so i'm not sure if i will bond with it, or if it will give the tones i'm hoping for. like i say, it sounds very raunchy though, so thats a good start.
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Re: exotic wood strat project finished
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2011, 08:02:49 PM »
bubinga is a great wood tone wise, but a bit heavy for a guitar body. Found it as cutting as alder but more dense and full sounding. Good choice, seems to be a nice guitar.  :)

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Re: exotic wood strat project finished
« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2011, 08:06:58 PM »
That looks great! I think it will sound incredible! If not may be only a matter of wood-pickup match :)

BTW, once again, you can only be disapointed by the lack of fret dress, as they ain't do any....

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Re: exotic wood strat project finished
« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2011, 08:10:52 PM »
When the sound is raunchy, the tone fits to the looks. I like this one, plain, organic, breezes rock'n'roll.
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Re: exotic wood strat project finished
« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2011, 08:31:12 PM »

Very nice!

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Re: exotic wood strat project finished
« Reply #5 on: January 15, 2011, 08:39:53 PM »
I like the look!  The bubinga's a surprisingly good match for the mahogany, colour-wise.
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Re: exotic wood strat project finished
« Reply #6 on: January 15, 2011, 08:43:26 PM »
I like the look!  The bubinga's a surprisingly good match for the mahogany, colour-wise.

yeah :) its slightly less of a match in real life, but still pretty good i reckon!
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Re: exotic wood strat project finished
« Reply #7 on: January 15, 2011, 09:02:34 PM »
Yeah, that's beautiful. Good choices on this one, indeed.

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Re: exotic wood strat project finished
« Reply #8 on: January 15, 2011, 11:38:55 PM »
i like!

i have been looking at fireman's recently thanks to you.  i almost cut out a body the other day.  if i was not so busy i would definitely be up for such a thing

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Re: exotic wood strat project finished
« Reply #9 on: January 15, 2011, 11:52:02 PM »
Nice 70s vibe going on there.
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Re: exotic wood strat project finished
« Reply #10 on: January 16, 2011, 03:45:43 AM »
i have been looking at fireman's recently thanks to you.  i almost cut out a body the other day.  if i was not so busy i would definitely be up for such a thing
funny, have been looking at Corvuses :) If you do decide to do a Fireman, might have a couple of ideas for improvements.
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Re: exotic wood strat project finished
« Reply #11 on: January 16, 2011, 09:25:14 AM »
gwEm, that's awesome!  Love that finish!

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Re: exotic wood strat project finished
« Reply #12 on: January 16, 2011, 10:11:19 AM »
Agree with everyone else; that looks fantastic. I didn't know I was susceptible to "big headstock" GAS until this moment... :)

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Re: exotic wood strat project finished
« Reply #13 on: January 16, 2011, 12:03:44 PM »
Apart from the big headstock (but that's just me :lol:), looks cute :D

That finish has come out really good, nice one :D
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Re: exotic wood strat project finished
« Reply #14 on: January 16, 2011, 12:40:19 PM »
I would've gone for gold hardware. But that 1pc is awesome.

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