Check This Out - Just Scored My Next Guitar's Body

[Bainzy]

£95, which includes the drilling mounting holes for the Original Floyd Rose bridge; it doesn't need shimming to get the right trem height either, it's been routed correctly already for that. One piece Mahogany.

Here's what the luthier said about this batch of bodies:

...put it this way, the grain is so tight on this wood that it doesn't need to be filled, its almost like Maple. There's a story behind this piece of wood, its 100 year old Mahogany that came from a barn that was knocked down recently in Quakers Town PA.

I managed to get the last one he made before he ran out of the wood. How cool is that? :mrgreen:

Here's some pics:

[Searcher]

That looks great!  A 100-year old barn, eh?  :D  It's vintage already!  ;)


I'd still grain-fill it though.  Even if he said it doesn't need it, I'd be surprised if it really doesn't need it.

[Crazy_Joe]

That looks niiiiice!

[Bainzy]

I'd still grain-fill it though.  Even if he said it doesn't need it, I'd be surprised if it really doesn't need it.

I agree - it took quite a bit of sanding and painting to get a perfectly smooth surface with no grain using nitrocellulose on one of my maple necks. I'll take a good look at it when it arrives, and I'll decide whether to fill it with several coats of paint (followed by sanding after each coat), or to use grain filler.

[TwilightOdyssey]

Well, if it's from PA, you had better have him ship it to NYC first, so that I can test it first!!

[steve]

Looks great bainzy. Cant wait to see how it ends up.

[Joe Dorcia]

My firend is making an acoustic with a 150 year old rosewood neck. Nice.

[lifted]

Very Beautiful, Bainzy.  Which Knuckle are you droping in that one?

[Andy RV]

You can tell just from looking at it that it's very high quality wood, congrats.

[_tom_]

That looks really nice, you arent going to cover up that lovely wood with paint are you?!

[Bainzy]

That looks really nice, you arent going to cover up that lovely wood with paint are you?!

Yep, lol. It's only gonna have a few thin coats of nitrocellulose though; I'm hoping it will wear through in a few years of heavy use and show the wood coming through the paint. I'm not really a fan of guitars with bare wood tbh, but I like the look of worn guitars so I won't refinish it when the paint wears away.

Very Beautiful, Bainzy.  Which Knuckle are you droping in that one?

I haven't really decided fully yet, but I'm considering doing a total custom job on it. Something like getting a coil with 42 gauge wire, one with 43 gauge wire, and one of Tim's unpolished Alnico 2 magnets. I've never modded any pickups myself so I'd quite like to give that a bash. Whether I'd rewind it myself or send it to BKP for a rewind, I'm not sure yet, depends how good it sounds stock.