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Thanks guys, I've just seen that there is same topic already, and I found pretty much everything I needed there...Thanks again

I think that happens to woods that are tight-grained and figured (best shown on your piece, unfortunately...), like flame maple, birds eye maple etc, when they are planned with inappropriate tools. But that should not happen to such big and experienced companies like gillmerwood..

Hi, where do you guys from Europe get woods (mahogany, maple, figured maple....).

Share some info

It's my first guitar build, I've never done anything with wood (except sawing fire wood xD), so I'm pretty proud

I know I first must dye black/dark brown, than sand it so it stays only deep, but I'm not sure how it would look on flamed maple...It will be good?

Good choice. Are you aiming to copy the Pensa-Suhr or just using it as inspiration?

I will go for a copy, that is really beautifull body shape, between strat and ibanez's....I hope it will look decent

There is a tutorial on main PG page: http://projectguitar.com/tut/3d.htm

This is for quilted maple. What would happen if I use flame maple? Like this one:

Can I get this finish on flame maple:

or at least this:

Thanks

Thanks

Here are several from process:

Body and rough contours:

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/2923/04...08350im6ok3.jpg

Monkey grip:

http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/334/11012008385pl7sl4.jpg

Routed cavities:

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/2835/dsc00198rd9dz5.jpg

It got schellack and nitro base (I don't have pics from making lion's claw, but it was ALL done by hand )

Few pics of how it looks now:

inlay:

neck:

Test fit:

This is old fingerboard, inlay holes were not how I expected, so I'll redo it.

It will be white - as original, but I am seriously thinking of doing transparent, because it is awesome looking now...

I am doing this with my friend in our free time, which we don't have a lot, so it's pretty slow...

Sorry on possible grammar mistakes

Cheers!

I thought about putting ebony for fingerboard, but now I see that it is about 95% bright, and rosewood is much warmer, so it will be used, I will order that from stewmac or somewhere, I would order rest of wood from internet, but shipping is as twice as price of wood so...

I have light, swamp ash. I think I will go for ash/walnut/rosewood combination! With dye, I could get nice dark brown color of ash back, or even go with black. Thanks a lot guys, any other suggestions will be great!

I'm from Bosnia and Herzegovina...you can't find anything here...(I know that you will say that we have best flamed maple for instruments, but it's being shipped in laaarge quantities to Italy, Germany, etc)

I have maple, walnut, ash, oak and beech....POOR!

If you can suggest me some combination, it doesn't have to be LP sound (well it can't), I just don't want to end up with too bright guitar. Strat would be some upper limit of brightness.

Oh, I have mdf too

I know that LPs are mahogany/maple duh...

The point is, I don't want to end up with extremly bright guitar, but now I see that mahogany is 75% bright, same as walnut.

I could go for a try, walnut back, maple top, and maybe walnut neck (if I don't find suitable flamed maple for it)

Huh, I prefer LP tone more...little warmer and that...and some guys told me that walnut/f.maple is a good combination for that...this got me confused

I'll start building a Pensa/Suhr looking guitar soon, so I need some of your opinions about wood to be used on it. I thought about putting a quilt maple top on it, but it is hard to get it where I live, so it will be flamed. Mahogany isn't avaliable here, so I thought about having walnut for body back? How it would sound in combination with flamed maple top? It would be carved top, I'll post some pics showing how it will look like app. And what neck wood do you recommend? Thanks!

I've sent 2 e mails about shipping info, and didn't get answer...I don't know how I can make a purchase if they don't answer on my mails...

I saw many PG members saying they're great, but like they have dissapeared...last site update was in March...

Hi, I need some help. How to achieve mat finish on back of the maple neck (it can be mahogany also) that is mostly found on Ibanez guitars? Is there some special finish or what? Thanks

Hi

http://3dhardwoods.com/index.html

Their products are awsome, prices even more, but they didn't seem to answer on my e-mails...Do they still work, any experiences?

Damn, it looks awesome, just put some clear on it, it looks amazingly good!

Has anyone tried to build Suhr/Pensa-like guitar? With carved top? They are just beautiful, but I believe they are hard to build also...I will try to build one as soon as I find some decent wood, so I would like to hear your opinions about everything. Cheers!

anyone?

That is the problem...Can somenone help me calculate how to set it up?

Hey, does anyone have any Fender Stratocaster floyd rose - edition blueprints?

I know that there are few models with floyd, but any blueprint is ok!

Thanks

please?

Hey, can you upload full size drawings please?