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Well i can't say i have ever been tempted to use pine for any sort of guitar building and i never thought i would until finding something today at school.

My teacher said it was something that goes by the name of "sugar pine". It looks nothing like the usual knotty crap we generally recognise as pine but has a sort of shine to it and has small knots or something similar that resemble birdseye maple.

From cutting into it too see what it was like i realised it was very hard, heavy and potentially a new bolt on neck for me.

Any ideas as to whether this would will be suitable?

Cheers

Was used on the original 1950s Broadcaster/Esquire bodies by Fender if I remember correctly - anyway, it's a lovely wood to use, suitable as a body wood, and also possibly as a neck wood too. Would take it for a neck if quartersawn, or flatsawn with graphite rods.

I found only enough for a bolt on neck so i will give it a try. It looks very nice, but nobody seems to sell it when i looked at supplies today so i will have to see if there is more in the wood pile tomorrow.

Cheers for the info !

Hey guys,

A friend of mine recently showed me a supplier located pretty near to me here in London, and I contacted them for a quote, and got some good news. They've got 3" X 8" stock in 8' lengths of a number of different types of wood, and I was looking primarily at African Mahog (I think it's Khaya), and Sapele. It's all kiln dried, and I get boards like that for under £50, which is a great improvement over Craft Supplies prices, and will give me enough stock to cut off neck and 2-piece body blanks to exactly how I want them.

I'm really looking for opinions - have you used Khaya or Sapele? What's it like to work? To Finish? What does it sound like?

Price difference is minimal - Mahogany is only about £4 more expensive than Sapele, so that's not the issue - I just don't want more than one board right now - so what do you guys reckon? If you could choose only one, which one, and why?

I know Taylor use Sapele in their T5, and also one of their series of acoustics uses it for backs and sides, but I've not seen it widely used in Electrics, any real reason why? As for mahogany, well, everyone on here knows about it's usage!

I have used sapele for necks before and i have found no problem with it. It is a tiny bit softer than mahogany but there isn't too much difference other than colour, name and price.

Well i can't say i have ever been tempted to use pine for any sort of guitar building and i never thought i would until finding something today at school.

My teacher said it was something that goes by the name of "sugar pine". It looks nothing like the usual knotty crap we generally recognise as pine but has a sort of shine to it and has small knots or something similar that resemble birdseye maple.

From cutting into it too see what it was like i realised it was very hard, heavy and potentially a new bolt on neck for me.

Any ideas as to whether this would will be suitable?

Cheers

Did anyone see the namm video of Neil Moser showing some of the tools he used? They had some guy shaping a neck blank with chisels, and you could here the people gooing ouch, ooo, ahh, but it actually worked out good for rough shaping. Not my taste, but there is always more than one way to skin a cat.

I just measure, rasp, file sand.

And i find a sharp chisel will do wonders for rough shaping.

I do the same as RGGR, i simply just lightly sand down the sharp 90 degree edges (you will notice this VERY slight rounding when looking at your RG).