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  1. Derivationguitarist
    is it possible to take down the body and center peice of the neck in order to add the maple top? i dont plan on using a very think peice of maple probablly around a 1/4 inch
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    Those pictures are all from before the neck was glued to the body. i think i may go with a very thin spalted maple top, i really like the look of it but i have a good few more weeks before i can get home to start working on it again so i have time to think about it. any suggestions comments ideas are welcome. I'm sure most of you if not all have a better concept of building guitars than i do. The body is 2 inches thick right now, the back is going to get sanded down a lot and probablly a little off of the front to to work out the imperfections in the wood such as dents, the dents on the face of the guitar is one of the main reasons i started thinking of adding the maple top. any feedback would be greatly appreciated
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    right now there is not a ton of depth to add in much of a maple top, i was planning on taking the mahogany down to the necessary depth before adding the maple top the fret board is only a little higher then the mahogany because orignally i was thinking of making it all mahogany. I dont really have any great pictures to show what i have done so far that could give much of an idea of how much space is there to add a top and i'm away at school right now and didn't bring the guitar with me in fear of damaging the unfinished project in the move. I'm not sure how to post pictures on here either, i can post the 3 pictures i do have if anyones interested. I play mostly metal music and am planning on throwing in a high gain pickup, bill lawrence l-500xl.
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    can that be generalized to say the harder the maple the brighter the sound? How "bright" of a sound does spalted maple have?
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    sorry for the clarical error, it is a neck through design the two body panels have been cut and joined to the neck, it is not a set neck. Thank you to everyone for the quickness of their replies. Do different types of maple have a different effect or is it all relatively the same?
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    I am building an electric guitar and i was wondering if adding a maple top would have any particular advantages over just a soild mahogany body. The guitar has a mahogany neck through style neck and the body is based off of the dean ML, with a few differences. The mahogany has already been cut and joined to the neck, would it be worth adding the maple top with this in mind. I've been looking around the internet and haven't been able to find any really diffinitive answers to this so i was hoping someone on here could help me out. Thanks
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