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Cute Reminds of a guitar I once bought for my son. It was a $40 3/4 scale acoustic. Lol... the neck broke at the joint 2 days later. Anyway, the interesting part was that the frets were completely out of place. The first fret was actually HALF a fret! Looked homemade by someone who had NO clue about scales or fret placement. The guy I bought it from said he had purchased a lot of these from South America somewhere. Someone needs to call the factory and tell'em "hey just skip the frets - you're better off fretless"

Hey dude... Any way you can get me some cans of that polyurethane cheap and ship to me?

Lol.... Yeah, Drak I didn't even think of it the other way but I see now that it might have been what he was asking (neck throughs with 2-part bodies) We need a clarification of your original question here, Petrix! PS: Do you have any projects going on, Drak?

Hi Petrix and welcome to the forum! I believe there are two main reasons for choosing two woods for your guitar body: 1) You can have one "main" wood in the back that may be cheaper than the more aesthetic woods, such as quilted maple, so instead of building the entire guitar out of quilted maple - one uses things like mahogany, oak or basswood for the main body, and then put a nicer looking thin sheet of wood on top for looks. You will see this commonly in guitars that have a stained or see-through wood-treatment top finish. 2) In general, mixing different woods yields different tonal qualities to the guitar as as whole. Different combinations give different sustain for example. Can anyone else think of more reasons?

Cool...will you please let us know here when you have tried it out? I'd be interested to try this too.

..and I would make sure you pick a suitable type of wood for the intricate design. Some are more likely to chip than others, but you also want something that won't make the cutting too hard on your own part. Evil guitars are cool.

I'm not sure how long it was exposed to humidity for. I bought it from some a local carpenter dude who seemed to keep all his wood nice and dry in his shop. No way of telling what could have happened to it prior to that. But thank you for the advice. I hope it's not gonna make too much of a difference when I glue the woods together. Or at least, not noticeable in the finished guitar - that would suck By the way, I never see people using beech for a guitar wood. Is there a reason for this?

Hi again everyone.. For my current guitar projects, I bought a large block of beech wood with the dimensions 23" x 32", 1-3/16" thick (that's 60cm x 80cm by 3cm thick in metric). I have now lined up the body shapes on the board, but have noticed that the block is slightly warped - probably due to humidity exposure during storage. The warp isn't really obvious until you put the block flat down on the floor. Then two of the opposite corners slightly bend up about 1/8" from the floor. Makes sense? In other words, the board has a slight bend diagonally acrooss it. My plan is to have a top layer of wood glued on top of each guitar body to make it thick enough. I figure 1-3/16" thickness is too narrow. So....I fear now that this warp is gonna pose a problem when I'm gonna glue a flat wood on top of the warped wood. Is there any way I can "un-warp" the wood? Or can the glue process (if pressed enough) force it to be somewhat straight? Would like to hear any comments / experience on this.. Thanks! Eskil

Thanks for responds, people... I checked out Warmoth.com and they seem reasonable. I might order my neck there. I have been watching EdRoman's site for a while. Surprisingly few BC Rich necks there, though. He has tons of Mockingbird body blanks and such but almost no necks to speak of. Hmm, yeah I'd love to do the neck myself but for now (with limited spare time) I will focus my time and work on the body. Maybe I will try a neck from scratch with my next guitar. Ah...so many guitars....so little time. Anyone else building BC Rich copies? :-)

Yeah it looks pretty mean, (and cool) Would make for some tedious cutting work though.. :-) I have always preferred "different" body styles. Get so tired of seeing "everyone" using the same old, boring, cooke-cutter Tele, Strat, SG, LP, Jem bodies. It's nice with a change, and I hope you go further with your project. Would love to see that guitar come to reality. Good luck!

Hi everyone! I'm glad to have found this forum. I've been checking out the main site for a while, reading the articles and such. But it's good to be in the forum among fellow guitarbuilders! :-) Wonder if I'm the first Norwegian here, btw Anyway - I'm in the process of building an evil looking BC Rich Widow, but since it's my first project, and I lack the tools and time - I am not gonna attempt the neck. Therefore, I have scoured and searched the internet up and down to try and find places that sell BC Rich guitar necks - but with no luck. Yes, I know there's eBay but what I want is really hard to come by even there.... I need a neck with the classic "Widow" headstock, also found on most stock Warlock models today. I'd also like to have diamond inlays, but dot inlays are ok too. Does anyone know of any store that sell these necks?? (preferably not custom shops that make necks after specification - those tend to be costly). Just a stock factory BC Rich neck is what I need.. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help!