MrValentine

I actually decided to go with guitarheads...they are really powerful...and they arent muddy at all.

Would a basswood lespaul with a maple neck sound ok? im intrested in this because of my friends custom paul with this combo sounds muddy to me.... Any advice is appreciated

Or rip the 11" into 5 pieces at 1.5" wide and turn all of them 90 degrees (giving you 5 quartersawn pieces 2.5" wide and 1.5" thick). You can then glue up a 5 piece quartersawn blank - not ideal but may be better than having pieces at different orientations.

Brian

Would this sound okay? or will it make a difference at all?

anybody here use gorilla wood glue?

That **** rocks!

I'll add to watch the way you glue up the pieces. If you take the bottom 2" of then turn it 90 degrees and glue it to the sides, you'll end up with the end grain being the glue joint, and that's a weak way to do it. End grain will soak up alot of the glue and you could end up with a poor joint.

Kinda seems to me you're a little short on Material with that board. If you have a way to resaw the wood, and can take the thickness down to 1.5" and end up with a piece @1" thick, you could cut that to strips1"x1.5" and add that to the sides to get your width so you don't use endgrain.

Hope that makes some sense to you

yep that makes sense and ill think that will be the method i try.

okay...so your saying to only add wood where its needed? the guitar im building is an SG replica and they always seemed somewhat smaller to me..

thanks...thats what i told them but they said it might be weak...

Any ideas on how to get a piece of mahogany with the measurements of 2.5" thick, 22" long and 11" wide to 1.5" thick, 20" long and 12" wide? I asked my dad and grandfather (both know a fair bit about woodworking) and they said saw it down and piece together...would this work?

Im going to use some dragonfire emg clones in my project and I'm thinking about using the mahogany on a 'paul build for a friend...alder is my next choice...

couldn't a laser potentially burn then wood? If not and you have access to a laser cutter show us some pics

I agree with the above...less chance of cutting fingers... x-acto's tend to slip on plastic sheet for pickguards

You just need a sharp blade and a bit of force...thats what my local guitar/luthier-shop guy told me to use

found some nice mahogany...thanks for all the help

Im going for a megadeth/metallica sound...I think mustaine's guitars are mahogany and Kirks are alder...thats mostly where my issue is...

Has anybody here used them? I am particularly drawn to their EMG 81 clones...they sound all right in my friends guitar.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks...any place where I can get a cheap-ish mahogany blank? Any suggestions on neck wood?

try using a BRAND NEW x-acto knife...thats what i use.

Good Luck

Thanks for the help...I think I'll go with Mahogany. Thats what SG's are still made of right?

I need to know which wood would be better for a metal SG: Alder or Mahogany

Thanks in advance