Tonewood opinions

SimpleSi · Post by **SimpleSi** » Wed Jul 05, 2017 6:15 pm

someone on Faceboob is selling this glued body/timber

It's Maple, Purpleheart, Mahogany, Purpleheart Maple.

Very weird combo.

considering picking it up and doing another project.

just not sure about combining maple and purpleheart.

handsoffmatt · Post by **handsoffmatt** » Wed Jul 05, 2017 6:52 pm

Holy crap. That would be HEAVY!!!!

Single coil · Post by **Single coil** » Wed Jul 05, 2017 7:06 pm

For 50 bucks you're basically losing money if you don't buy it

Post by Bg » Wed Jul 05, 2017 7:11 pm

handsoffmatt wrote:Holy crap. That would be HEAVY!!!!

Think he said it was 7Kg, put me off straight away....

bender · Post by **bender** » Wed Jul 05, 2017 7:21 pm

Bg wrote:
handsoffmatt wrote:Holy crap. That would be HEAVY!!!!
Think he said it was 7Kg, put me off straight away....

Simple answer- turn it into a Steinberger Cricket Bat. You'd lose like 75% of the weight just like that!

NippleWrestler · Post by **NippleWrestler** » Wed Jul 05, 2017 8:42 pm

It'll be heavy as hell. But it'll go down to maybe 4kg after working, and you could hollow out the body and attach a top to shave some weight.

Sound would be bright and tight with a lot of sustain.

Jay · Post by **Jay** » Wed Jul 05, 2017 9:24 pm

Get it while you can. It will never be as heavy as my 6KG strat....

sirvill · Post by **sirvill** » Wed Jul 05, 2017 9:44 pm

I reckon it'll have tight lows, haunting mids and a real top end sparkle.

Seriously though it'll sound like whatever pickups you put in it

/runs

SimpleSi · Post by **SimpleSi** » Wed Jul 05, 2017 10:16 pm

sirvill wrote:I reckon it'll have tight lows, haunting mids and a real top end sparkle.

Seriously though it'll sound like whatever pickups you put in it

/runs

not far from the truth though haha.

acoustics is where tonewood really tends to make a difference.

I didn't see the 7kg until now

stuff that.

Maple alone is super heavy

He intended to make a bass guitar body out of it. makes sense if you're wanting to pop your top end.

Can't afford to do any builds atm after buying the Paloma Doozy.. - but Purpleheart(having worked with it before) is a nightmare and costs a few router bits $$ to work.. haha

just saw the listing and it got my guitar project itch going.

mrmofo · Post by **mrmofo** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 7:27 am

headstock options are a bit slim

NippleWrestler · Post by **NippleWrestler** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 9:16 am

how long is that piece? If that body is regular sized there's no chance you'd fit a full scale neck on there.

sirvill · Post by **sirvill** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 11:23 am

NippleWrestler wrote:how long is that piece? If that body is regular sized there's no chance you'd fit a full scale neck on there.

Maybe he was going for one of those basses with a giant top horn thing to counterbalance. The ones that looked like a bass survived Chernobyl but is permanently effected by radioactive mutation.

eg:

godgrinder · Post by **godgrinder** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 11:59 am

Or something like this haha

Single coil · Post by **Single coil** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 12:19 pm

Those things are more wtf than rick and morty

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