Curtis P Posted June 16, 2004 Report Share Posted June 16, 2004 Picture this, you get some really nice flamed maple for the body with a mahogany neck and ebony fret board, shaped as a.... heck lets say a strat (just for TSL) you get it all shapped and sanded, and then, heres the real killer feature, take a peice of wood (something darker) about 5 cm thick, and then do a FLAME design on it, and then route all the inside of it so your left with a big hunk of flame design, and laminate it onto the top and use part of it as pickup rings and raised bridge (after sanded to height) you can also hollow the body out and have a nice PHAT tone yea, i think that would be a killer project, someone should do it!! Curtis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Jabsco Posted June 16, 2004 Report Share Posted June 16, 2004 Yeah, it would be killer! but think of how much the wood would cost :-/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcow Posted June 16, 2004 Report Share Posted June 16, 2004 i think you should build it and give it to me but that does sound awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MKGBass Posted June 16, 2004 Report Share Posted June 16, 2004 5 CM?! 5 CM?!.....or maybe 5 mm? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truerussian558 Posted June 16, 2004 Report Share Posted June 16, 2004 sounds cool, but you could always inlay pieces of another wood to make a flame design, now that would be cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Jabsco Posted June 16, 2004 Report Share Posted June 16, 2004 it would take long as s*** Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitone Posted June 16, 2004 Report Share Posted June 16, 2004 That sounds like how Gibson does this guitar. They use to have a flash movie that talked about how the flames were applied. They showed one that was black and the flames were natural. It was pretty awesome looking. I am thinking about doing this to my Semi-hollow body I'm building. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basey Posted June 16, 2004 Report Share Posted June 16, 2004 I wonder, if you took two tops of the same thickness and clamped them together on top of each other. You could probably cut the flame design out with a thin scroll saw and glue the different woods together. You'd get two tops out of it. also, if you cut the pick up blocks out of the top before you laminated it to the body blank, the design would be continuous through the the pickups too. I realize that you were talking about something different. You just got me thinking. I don't know if it'd work but it sounds like a cool project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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