timmyo Posted September 30, 2007 Report Share Posted September 30, 2007 Hi there Let's assume I'm building a Strat-shaped body from Walnut, and bolting on a rosewood neck and rosewood fingerboard and Wilko trem. If you absolutely had to (and you do ) what would you guess at the tonal response of the finished guitar being ? (it's having body-mounted humbuckers x 2 btw) ta Tim p.s. - wow - what a lot of info on this forum, great place Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TemjinStrife Posted September 30, 2007 Report Share Posted September 30, 2007 Heavy. Very heavy. You're looking at some pretty weighty woods. Rosewood is great for midrange, bass, and mellower sounds, while the walnut is a good hard wood with a frequency response similar to maple with not quite as much bite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timmyo Posted September 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2007 Thanks. The body is actually not so bad weight-wise, and I've yet to do the comfort carves : http://picasaweb.google.com/timodonnell.uk/ProjectGuitar but yeah the Rosewood will add some of that back and more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killemall8 Posted September 30, 2007 Report Share Posted September 30, 2007 (edited) are you sure thats walnut? that looks way too light to be walnut. it looks like sapele or african mahogany. EDIT: and now i look at it again, i am positive that it is not walnut, and it is most likely sapele or a. mahogany. anyone else think so? Edited September 30, 2007 by killemall8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted September 30, 2007 Report Share Posted September 30, 2007 I'm not sure what that body wood is, but it's not an American or European Walnut. It does look like some Mahogany, but it's hard to tell. Is EIR heavier than hard maple? If it is, it's not a great deal heavier, not to my knowledge. So I don't see weight being too much of an issue here, but nice wood choices so far! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prs man Posted September 30, 2007 Report Share Posted September 30, 2007 I cut a lot of walnut and that is not any walnut I have seen. looks like sapele or a. mahogany so as for the sound or tone I say with a rose wood neck it will have a nice tone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGman Posted September 30, 2007 Report Share Posted September 30, 2007 Sapele, definitely. It's a nice timber, my favorite to use in fact. Looks like a nice build! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xanthus Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 You have a CNC machine. Therefore, you totally cheated Welcome to the forum! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erikbojerik Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 Sapele & 2 humbuckers....it will sound like a Les Paul, but with more attack from the Wilkinson trem and the rosewood neck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aidlook Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 I'm sorry, gotta know what type of glue you will use to be able to exactly tell what it's gonna sound like Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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WezV Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 bumped for a full stop!! anyway - whilst its here. I have seem very similar wood called african walnut in this neck of the woods and since i know timmyo is from the UK i would guess thats what it is. Possibly just another Uk name for sapele but i am not really sure. Its got a really nice golden mahogany sheen with lots of ribboning and the occasional dark grainline. My first ever guitar project was from a burled piece of it that used to be a table my dad made at school this was also sold to me as african walnut: also i dont think the CNC is timmyo's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drak Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 WooW! That is certainly a beautiful guitar Wes, Bravo! I bet it sounds gorgeous with the Sapele/P-90 combination. Are they smooth and full tone P-90's or the rawer, rough edge gritty variety? Sorry to hijack, had to ask. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ByronBlack Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 Sorry for the odd 'bump'. I was doing some research and got sucked into replying without realising how old the thread was and my reply was of no use considering the threads age, but at least we got to see your spanky guitar - very nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WezV Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 the pickups i used were fender black doves rather than real P-90's. Certainly not bad sounding for the price i paid but they are badly made and not up to the sound quality i get from my bare knuckle equipped guitars.. i guess i am hooked on BKP's now Currently the guitar is waiting to be rebuilt because the neck angle was slightly out and didnt give as much range of adjustment as i like. I set it so the strings would touch the frets at the lowest setting so all the adjustment would be upwards. These schaller roller bridges dont have as much screw length to adjust action compared with a normal hardtail. but they do come iwth a metal spacer to raise it more if you need to - unfortunately to get to the point where there is enough break angle to stop the string popping out the saddle the bridge needs to be set to the point of 'far to high' action on the guitar i built. It was ok for most people when set to a normal action but i had a couple of people with heavy strumming hands point the problem out to me. I just need to recess the bridge a couple of mm and its should be fine for everyone, but when i get around to it i will replace the pickups with Bare Knuckle Pickup P-90's.. maybe get a special set slightly underwound for me because i am preferring P-90 construction with around 6-7k of power at the moment. I cant say for certain that the wood it is the same as sapele because i havnt worked with that yet - but this stuff certainly works like walnut so i can understand why that name may have been given to it in the UK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drak Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 i am preferring P-90 construction with around 6-7k of power at the moment I agree. The longer I build and the older I get, the lighter in output my pickups seem to get, and the more tonality I seem to achieve. I achieve a heavy saturation tone by using the active electronics setup with specialty controls, not by using high output pickups. Unless I'm doing a 'go-for-the-throat' Metal guitar of some kind. But those are getting less and less as I get older and older. :D Sorry to hear about the guitar woes, it is a beauty indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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