cyco Posted June 8, 2008 Report Share Posted June 8, 2008 Refinishing a coffee table and wonder if it would make a better guitar than a table. Plenty wood for two bodies, but i'm not sure what the wood is. Any suggestions or help w/ ID would be welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zyonsdream Posted June 8, 2008 Report Share Posted June 8, 2008 looks to maple Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyco Posted June 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2008 BTW the table is solid, stamped Mar. 1976. I attempted to show the grain by wiping on some alcohol but it kept evaporating before I could take the pic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregP Posted June 9, 2008 Report Share Posted June 9, 2008 Looks like maple to me, but I'm no expert. If you're already refinishing it as a coffee table, I don't think you've stumbled across anything that's just screaming to be a guitar. Coffee tables need love too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prostheta Posted June 9, 2008 Report Share Posted June 9, 2008 It could quite easily be hiding all kinds of metal, imperfections, stains and voids inside the wood. I agree with Greg - don't deprive yourself of a nice coffee table :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zyonsdream Posted June 9, 2008 Report Share Posted June 9, 2008 It also looks to be at least 6 pieces of maple glued together so you will essentially end up needing to paint them so any figure that it has will be lost. I like to have 1 center line (if any but you’d be hard pressed to get your joint in the center of a body with the width of each board… I’d give back to the table and just refinish it, you never know what could be holding those boards together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyco Posted June 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2008 Yeah on closer inspection I noticed a pin in one of the boards. I would hate to buy my friend a new set of planer knives because I was trying to cheap out on wood. just a crazy idea, a coffee table it shal be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RestorationAD Posted June 9, 2008 Report Share Posted June 9, 2008 Add a tobacco sunburst it will make you feel better about it being just a coffee table.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j. pierce Posted June 9, 2008 Report Share Posted June 9, 2008 Who says it can't be both? http://www.lindaanderson.com/images_all/pr...imgs/533473.jpg (There are more examples out there if you look - but howzabout keeping it a functional coffee table, but strapping some strings and a pickup on one end and making it a lap steel style thing? A little slide guitar with your coffee.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshvegas Posted June 9, 2008 Report Share Posted June 9, 2008 I'm sure i saw a guitar set into a table in a magazine once. so the front of the cguitar (strat i think) was flush with the table top which was of a contrasting wood! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zyonsdream Posted June 10, 2008 Report Share Posted June 10, 2008 My jointer took a nasty nail when I was trying to use mahogany that was recovered from an old building. I pulled them all out and thought I had everything. Then "think"...replacing jointer knives suck almost as much as replacing planer knives, not to mention they can cost a ton too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan316 Posted June 13, 2008 Report Share Posted June 13, 2008 You can definitely have fun making coffee tables.... here's my viking table. http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/6268/table2xm9.jpg http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/3540/table3hb0.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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