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http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/soundat11/my_photos I've got 4 different batches of lumber for sale right now: Here are pics of the bundle of Black Limba: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/soundat11/al...dat11/my_photos Plenty of stock for necks, two-piece bodies, and neck-thru blanks. The outdoor pics were taken on my patio and then the wood was put back indoors where it's being stored in a warm, dry room, which is wear the top row of pics were taken (notice the difference in the lighting). The boards are all 1 3/4 thick and varying widths (from 4" to 8" wide), 7 ft long, and planed on top. Spec out what you need and I can cut it out for you. Ready to ship I can cut the lumber neck and body blanks of ANY width and length for you. Black Limba Neck Prices: Standard 28-30" x 4" x 1 3/4" necks are $20, Bass: $25, and Neck-thru $30. Black Limba Body Prices: Neck-thru Wings: 2 pieces of 5-6 x 20 x 1 3/4 is $40 Standard 2 exact pieces equaling 14 x 20 x 1 3/4 is $50 (you'll need to join them) **SOLD OUT**, Remaining 1 on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/BLACK-LIMBA-Korina-gui...1QQcmdZViewItem Oversized 2 exact pieces equaling 16-17 x 21 x 1 3/4 are $60 (you'll need to join them) Figured Crotch Mahogany http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/soundat11/al...dat11/my_photos are also pics of some very beautiful "swirly" figured crotch mahogany that I have in stock right now. This stuff is insanely beautiful in the sunlight, almost like Koa. It's rather dense and heavy, so I wouldn't suggest it for an entire solid guitar body unless you want a georgeous and heavy guitar, but if you were making a carved semi-hollowbody or acoustic guitar, or can get the wood resawn for a beautiful mahogany top, this would be perfect for that. Most sections are cut approx 21" long and are 12 1/2" wide and 1 3/4". I've got 4 of these available. These have a few worm holes on the bottom, but considering the thickness you have to work with, these won't appear in your finished guitar. If you're interested, feel free to make an offer, it's ready to ship. Otherwise, I'll have it resawn down and offer up later for sale. Finally, I have approx 350 bft of wide African Mahogany: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/soundat11/al...dat11/my_photos This is all 13 to 17.5" wide, 1 3/4" thick, ONE PIECE mahogany, all the boards are 14 ft long, so I can cut it to whatever specs you want. So if you always wanted to carve a Flying V or a ES-335 out of one solid piece of mahogany, here's you're chance I presently have many bodies cut out of this ranging from 13" x 20", 14" x 20, 15" x 21" to 16" x 23" to 17" x 24" and I still have 2 17.5" wide, 14ft boards remaining. The wood is much lighter colored than most mahogany and has beautiful grain with lots of wavy and swirly patterns. Weight varies It is Kiln-dried to 6-8% moisture content from my supplier, it is being stored indoors in my 74 degrees warm house. You can check out some of them out on my Yahoo Photos page: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/soundat11/my_photos and my Ebay Auctions: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQcatrefZC6QQfro...dat11QQsatitleZ I can cut neck and body blanks of ANY width and length for you from the remaining boards. Neck Prices: Standard 28-30" x 4" x 1 3/4" necks are $20, Bass: $25, and Neck-thru $30. *price drop* Body Prices: $40 on 14x20x1.75 $45 on 15x20x1.75 $55 on the 16x22x1.75, and $65 on the 17x24x1.75 MONSTER blanks I also have 50 lbs of 192 Gram High Clarity Hide Glue IN STOCK and will be happy to include a bag of enough glue to build a guitar for an extra $5. Shipping is up to the buyer, whichever you choose to pay for. US Mail Parcel Post is inexpensive, usually $1 per 1 lb, Priority Mail is the choice if you want it in 2-3 days and don't mind paying a few extra dollars.. I will beat any online business's prices for the mahogany body blanks and limba necks and bodies. Just send me their price and I'll beat it. I'm just started my own guitar building supplies business full time and I want to have good deals and outsell anyone else. I should have my website http://www.soundat11.com finished by mid-December. For reference, you can visit my Ebay Feedback: http://cgi3.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?View...serid=soundat11 email is: soundat11 (at symbol) yahoo dot com Thanks, Will

Just added a 16 x 22 x 1 3/4 Mahogany body blank on Ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=7373342961 I'll be adding some Crotch Mohogany in the next day or two, as well as some neck blanks cut from the Black Limba mentioned above. I just picked up my very large shipment of Mahogany today, so I should have them cut and ready for sale starting this weekend. The grain is unbelievable on the new ones, very striking. All boards are between 13 and 17" wide, so if you've been waiting for the perfect piece to make an Explorer, Flying V, Jazzmaster, Dimebag, or anything else, I can cut you a piece as wide and as long as you want.

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/soundat11/my_photos Here are pics of the bundle of Black Limba that I purchased today. Plenty of stock for necks, two-piece bodies, and neck-thru blanks. The pics were taken on my patio and then the wood was put back indoors where it's being stored in a warm, dry room. The boards are all 1 3/4 thick and varying widths (from 4 to 9" wide) and planed on top. I haven't yet decided how to divide them up for cutting, so if you see something specific you want, contact me and I can cut it out for you. Prices are to be determined, but I'll match or beat any website's prices. There are also pics of some very beautiful "swirly" figured mahogany that I have in stock right now. It's rather dense and heavy, so I wouldn't suggest it for a solid guitar body, but if you were making a carved semi-hollowbody or acoustic guitar, or can get the wood resawn for a beautiful mahogany top, this would be good for that. Most sections are cut approx 21" long and are 12 1/2" wide and 1 3/4". I've got 4 of these available. If you're interested, feel free to make an offer Later this week or by early next week, I'll have approx 300ft of wide 1 3/4 thick African Mahogany in stock, this should be enough to make approx 80 one piece body blanks for guitar/bass. I'll upload pics when it arrives. I'm in the process of acquiring a small quantity of completely black Gaboon Ebony neck blanks, as well as Brazilion Rosewood, if there's an interest. I also have 50 lbs of 192 Gram High Clarity Hide Glue on order and will be happy to include enough glue to build a guitar for an extra $5. I can beat any online business's prices for the mahogany body blanks and limba necks and bodies. Just send me their price and I'll beat it. I'm just started my own guitar building supplies business full time and I want to have good deals and outsell anyone else. By next week, I should have my website http://www.soundat11.com online by mid-December.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Mahogany-1-PIECE-guita...1QQcmdZViewItem I'll have Black Limba neck and body blanks up next week, as well as WIDE mahogany one-piece body blanks (14-16" wide) for guitars.

I use the Gold 3+3 locking Grovers on my neck-thru. I don't really care for them. Right off the bat, the screws that they come with are really soft metal, very easy to round out on the 1st installation (unlike my old non-locking Grovers that have been installed on numerous guitars and haven't rounded out). The main thing is that they don't seem to hold a tune any better than regular grovers and here's the comparison. I've used the old (USA) Grovers on my mahogany/Rosewood necked SG and a maple/Rosewood necked Sheraton. Both were "pretty good" (not as good as the old Schallers on my Ovation, it can hold a tune for months at a time). The locking Grovers (on my hard-rock maple neck (with dual trussrod and graphite reinforcement rods) with an ebony fretboard, neck-thru, straight-pull headstock, graphite nut (IE: it should theoretically have the most rigid neck possible), and tuneomatic bridge) don't hold tune for more than a day or tune and constantly need tweaking as they always seemed to detune on me. I'd suggest getting something different like old Schallers.

Good points, Greg. Honestly, my current neck-thru guitar doesn't sustain "infinitely" (as I'd wish), just on par with a good set neck guitar. My main line of thinking is a few points. I figure that the more glue in my guitar, the more potential for robbing vibrations of the pieces of wood I'm joining. By that logic, a 1-piece solid maple guitar with it's maple fretboard, would be the ideal......of course, it'd weigh a TON and be ear-piercingly bright. Next, I figure if the neck and body are one literal piece of wood, that all vibrations will be transmitted clearly between the two. I'll be doing direct-mounted p'ups and strings-thru the body, so having the pickups being mounted to this fully resonating body would be the ideal guitar. I personally don't like the design or effort to put together bolt-on neck or set-neck guitars. Neck-thru's aren't too bad, I used dowel rods between the neck and body to line them up for the clamp-n-glue process. But even better, having no neck joint at all, with this 2-piece carved guitar, would be easiest, because, there basically is no "joint" to speak of. Lastly, cost isn't much of an issue on this one. I paid $200 for my Carvin neck-thru blank and $30 for wood on my current neck-thru homemade guitar. Someone buying a Warmoth neck+body is looking at $400 as well. Two slabs of $30 mahogany would be $60, grab a $20 fretboard, and your trussroad, and you've got the essentials out of the way for a little over $100. Like you said, have plent of spare mahogany left over, or just stick it on ebay and recoup some of your expense.

I've got a crazy idea: a 2-piece guitar. I picked up a 1 3/4" thick, 6 1/2" wide, and 4' long peice of Mahogany at the local lumber store ($30). I'm considering getting an identical sized piece, joining them in the middle, and litterally cutting a guitar out of the entire board (one continuous piece, no seperate neck and body). Has this been done before? Do you think the neck (let alone the guitar) would be stable on something like this? Soundwise, would this be the uber-sustain, tone-monster I'm imagining or just heavy, dead guitar? I'd have to route and install my own trussrod and fret a pre-cut fretboard (might get a luthier friend to do it for me) How hard is doing the trussrod? FWIW, I've built a previous neck-thru guitar using the Carvin neck and building the body (routing, wiring, finishing, and setup) and have also refretted a neck.