Very nice choice of wood.would be an honor to own one of your Guitars. Talk about a show and tell to all my friends. Sweet for once in my life let me win.
Thats very humbling for me that you'd think so. Thank you! Good luck and stay tuned.. my dream is to be able to get my guitars into the hands of players.
a lot of nice woods!! my choice would be: For Earth: definetely spalted maple, for Fire: I would like red guitar with the blond fretboard and for water: If you don't mind to share my experience: test the blue dye upfront, I once made an oak body for a guitar and I stained it blue, the final colour turned out to be black with some small streaks of grey....so I would suggest to start with a light blue on the black limba.....looking so much forward to the builds...all the best to you!!
I'm leaning the same for Earth and Fire, but people really do seem to like the yellow. I'm definitely taking the advice to heart. Theres going to alot of experimenting on these finishes. It's why I think the ash would be easier to make work, but that Limba is soo.... amazing lol Thanks for the heads up!
When people play "air guitar" it's an invisible kinda thing, so very apropos 🫥😂 Would some clear acrylic pieces be possible to work into the air guitar? I know nada about guitar building but clear acrylic is so interesting in any form. Seriously, the yellow guitar would be "fire" as my teenager would say. All of them are gonna be amazing! Fantastic creativity. **Looked it up, I guess the proper term for acrylic is epoxy resin, mixed with wood. Lol... like I said, I know nothing about the subject, but they look amazing.
You are always two steps ahead... the resin idea really is apropos . You know, the yellow Fire is definitely growing on me. You may not build guitars to know about the woods.. but you have great ideas
Just chiming in for the air guitar. My thought on it would be to just use mainly light colors with some nice grains and then possibly add maybe some grayish shades across to simulate clouds. Like if one was looking at the sky. Someone earlier mentioned epoxy usage so you can mix some different grey tones to simulate haze and possibly a little light blue to have sky peaking through. Hope this sparks something. I’m sure it will look amazing.
I like it. I agree that light minimalistic colors.. muted almost would be really nice. I wish I had some experience with resin, but I have zero with it. It really is a cool idea though. Maybe the next one I'll try it.
Definitely spalted maple on the 1st one. I like the yellow and red too. Black Limba is definitely a good choice too. The Padouk looks good. And the Wenge. I have a feeling these gitars are gonna look badass. I've never seen a giutar with an oak neck. You're right it'll probably be heavy, but I bet it'll be quite stout. Here in Appalachia I'm constantly always having to tweak my maple & mahogany necks after winter. There's 51% humidity now but that's about to change here real soon. It will fall into the teens and even with my humidifier I can't even put a dent in it. Tweaking truss rods & filing fret ends are one thing, but once I had to pull all the frets on a guitar and replane the fretboard! Anyway, I see some WEN cases back there. I've got some WEN tools here. Not for building guitars, I'm not good with wood lol. I just do minor stuff. Guys like you who build guitars from scratch, I call you guys "wood wizards" lol. I'd love to learn but I live in a 1 bedroom duplex so I don't really have the room. Okay, I'm rambling, yes this is gonna be interesting. I can't wait!
Rambling? Everything you said was interesting. Yeah, I'm up north and we're about to hit "the change". I love the seasons but it does mess with your guitars. I had an old acoustic split the top because I waited too long to check in on it. But I have a theory that eventually those humidity changes eventually condition the wood. I notice some guitars move less and less over the years of seasonal changes. And thank you, but I bet you can build a mean guitar if you had the space. The reason I bought a house was to be able to get back to building guitars. I'm going to do my best on these. The ideas are good, let's hope I can execute to the level I want.There are still some surprises in store that I need to fully develope. Thanks for the awesome comment
Dude. Yellow? Idk. I like red and blondie. But there is a very clear choice for the baritone. Go with your instinct there 1000%. Make it a baseball bat Warwick wenge neck. I think the neck on my thumb -5 bass has a lot to do with the “growl” Warwick sound. It doesn’t have to be quite as enormous, but not a thin fast neck. Beefy slow neck. But that long scale neck in all wenge will look really fucking cool against the blue. Like a pirate ship against the Caribbean waters. Carry on
You underestimate me, young grasshopper.. I think I can rock the hell out of that yellow with red trim. But Red is more fitting tbh, so I get you. lol, Someone mentioned a wenge stripe and fretboard with flame maple sides which I got to say does sound awesome. But I'm still leaning towards all wenge. I'll just include a strap for the weight of that beast
The outlier. I can really see how that would be so sweet too. But it's been almost 100% spalted so far. But I like outliers too.. I'm leaning heavily towards the ash
Thank you - I really enjoyed this - I use recycled wood where I can, so often struggle to get good matches that work. I like wenge, so pleased to see that. For me, a full wenge neck is quite a strong look. Are laminated neck off the agenda? I would cut a wenge fretboard and a wenge central spine for the neck blank and use the roasted maple for the sides - so a three piece neck blank. Looking forward to the next one Cheers
Mmmmm.. Thats a great idea. Hadn't occurred to me, but that does sound hot. I do love the idea of a really dark and mysterious look, but that would be a sexy neck. Thanks for that idea! It's really good
Cheers - I also build for charities. I don't do TH-cam, but post on the Guitar Builders Collective and my web site - a search on my name will find it if anyone is interested. Your guitars will be amazing.
i‘m just wondering why you would invest many hundreds of dollars and countless hours of work in guitars only to give them away to basically random people on the internet? i don’t criticize, i really want to know why you’re doing this? you got some nice pieces of wood there ❤
analysis paralysis. no wrong choices there really, i like the idea of the yellow fire guitar with the paduk neck. and obviously you have to use that spalted maple.
lol the spalted is hard to refuse isn't it? I am intrigued about the yellow fire guitar. Soon as I thought of it an image popped into my head. Thanks brother!
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Very nice choice of wood.would be an honor to own one of your Guitars. Talk about a show and tell to all my friends. Sweet for once in my life let me win.
Thats very humbling for me that you'd think so. Thank you!
Good luck and stay tuned.. my dream is to be able to get my guitars into the hands of players.
a lot of nice woods!! my choice would be: For Earth: definetely spalted maple, for Fire: I would like red guitar with the blond fretboard and for water: If you don't mind to share my experience: test the blue dye upfront, I once made an oak body for a guitar and I stained it blue, the final colour turned out to be black with some small streaks of grey....so I would suggest to start with a light blue on the black limba.....looking so much forward to the builds...all the best to you!!
I'm leaning the same for Earth and Fire, but people really do seem to like the yellow. I'm definitely taking the advice to heart. Theres going to alot of experimenting on these finishes. It's why I think the ash would be easier to make work, but that Limba is soo.... amazing lol
Thanks for the heads up!
When people play "air guitar" it's an invisible kinda thing, so very apropos 🫥😂 Would some clear acrylic pieces be possible to work into the air guitar? I know nada about guitar building but clear acrylic is so interesting in any form.
Seriously, the yellow guitar would be "fire" as my teenager would say. All of them are gonna be amazing! Fantastic creativity.
**Looked it up, I guess the proper term for acrylic is epoxy resin, mixed with wood. Lol... like I said, I know nothing about the subject, but they look amazing.
You are always two steps ahead... the resin idea really is apropos . You know, the yellow Fire is definitely growing on me.
You may not build guitars to know about the woods.. but you have great ideas
Limba and wedge would be a great combo - the idea of a Wenge neck is awesome
Thanks.. if that goes the way I envision it, it's going to be really awesome
so many choices! love them all.
Thanks Elvis
Just chiming in for the air guitar. My thought on it would be to just use mainly light colors with some nice grains and then possibly add maybe some grayish shades across to simulate clouds. Like if one was looking at the sky. Someone earlier mentioned epoxy usage so you can mix some different grey tones to simulate haze and possibly a little light blue to have sky peaking through. Hope this sparks something. I’m sure it will look amazing.
I like it. I agree that light minimalistic colors.. muted almost would be really nice. I wish I had some experience with resin, but I have zero with it. It really is a cool idea though. Maybe the next one I'll try it.
Definitely spalted maple on the 1st one. I like the yellow and red too. Black Limba is definitely a good choice too. The Padouk looks good. And the Wenge. I have a feeling these gitars are gonna look badass. I've never seen a giutar with an oak neck. You're right it'll probably be heavy, but I bet it'll be quite stout. Here in Appalachia I'm constantly always having to tweak my maple & mahogany necks after winter. There's 51% humidity now but that's about to change here real soon. It will fall into the teens and even with my humidifier I can't even put a dent in it. Tweaking truss rods & filing fret ends are one thing, but once I had to pull all the frets on a guitar and replane the fretboard! Anyway, I see some WEN cases back there. I've got some WEN tools here. Not for building guitars, I'm not good with wood lol. I just do minor stuff. Guys like you who build guitars from scratch, I call you guys "wood wizards" lol. I'd love to learn but I live in a 1 bedroom duplex so I don't really have the room. Okay, I'm rambling, yes this is gonna be interesting. I can't wait!
Rambling? Everything you said was interesting. Yeah, I'm up north and we're about to hit "the change". I love the seasons but it does mess with your guitars. I had an old acoustic split the top because I waited too long to check in on it. But I have a theory that eventually those humidity changes eventually condition the wood. I notice some guitars move less and less over the years of seasonal changes.
And thank you, but I bet you can build a mean guitar if you had the space. The reason I bought a house was to be able to get back to building guitars. I'm going to do my best on these. The ideas are good, let's hope I can execute to the level I want.There are still some surprises in store that I need to fully develope.
Thanks for the awesome comment
Dude. Yellow? Idk. I like red and blondie. But there is a very clear choice for the baritone. Go with your instinct there 1000%. Make it a baseball bat Warwick wenge neck. I think the neck on my thumb -5 bass has a lot to do with the “growl” Warwick sound. It doesn’t have to be quite as enormous, but not a thin fast neck. Beefy slow neck. But that long scale neck in all wenge will look really fucking cool against the blue. Like a pirate ship against the Caribbean waters. Carry on
You underestimate me, young grasshopper.. I think I can rock the hell out of that yellow with red trim. But Red is more fitting tbh, so I get you.
lol, Someone mentioned a wenge stripe and fretboard with flame maple sides which I got to say does sound awesome. But I'm still leaning towards all wenge. I'll just include a strap for the weight of that beast
Damn. This video made me realize I need to step up my wood game. This is good shit right here tho. So jealous of your work now. 🤘🏼🔥
lol, I'm just raiding my stash at this point. Thanks!
For earth, I would go with the ash and ebony
The outlier. I can really see how that would be so sweet too. But it's been almost 100% spalted so far.
But I like outliers too.. I'm leaning heavily towards the ash
for fire - yellow guitar with a red fretboard is really unusual and will have a real impact - not that the other option is bad
I'm really torn on that one. I can see both in my head. I think it's just a matter of which I do for this series.. they'll both be made..eventually
I also like the Limba
It's gorgeous, right? If you look up my Soma build, I used a brother piece of limba there. Such a beautiful wood
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Dark blue goes great with gold
Thank you - I really enjoyed this - I use recycled wood where I can, so often struggle to get good matches that work. I like wenge, so pleased to see that. For me, a full wenge neck is quite a strong look. Are laminated neck off the agenda? I would cut a wenge fretboard and a wenge central spine for the neck blank and use the roasted maple for the sides - so a three piece neck blank.
Looking forward to the next one Cheers
Mmmmm.. Thats a great idea. Hadn't occurred to me, but that does sound hot. I do love the idea of a really dark and mysterious look, but that would be a sexy neck. Thanks for that idea! It's really good
Cheers - I also build for charities. I don't do TH-cam, but post on the Guitar Builders Collective and my web site - a search on my name will find it if anyone is interested.
Your guitars will be amazing.
i‘m just wondering why you would invest many hundreds of dollars and countless hours of work in guitars only to give them away to basically random people on the internet? i don’t criticize, i really want to know why you’re doing this?
you got some nice pieces of wood there ❤
It's alot of things I can't really get into in a comment section. But I hope people have fun with it. It means alot to me
analysis paralysis. no wrong choices there really, i like the idea of the yellow fire guitar with the paduk neck. and obviously you have to use that spalted maple.
lol the spalted is hard to refuse isn't it? I am intrigued about the yellow fire guitar. Soon as I thought of it an image popped into my head. Thanks brother!