Thanks for the info. Like I said, I don't know much at this point. Since I'm down in the southeast, we don't have too many maple trees (or good maple syrup). The Lowes & Home Depots around here don't carry it, just the oak and poplar.
I know a guy that frequents the same drinking establishment that I do that works for a company that specializes in high end woodworking. I showed him some of my guitar pics, and he mentioned something about grabbing some of their scraps. I'm going to have to take him up on that offer.
I sometimes buy maple & oak 2x from home depot. The stuff I get from my hardwood place usually needs to be dimensioned and I don't own a jointer/planer so I have to just go for it on the table saw and finish dimensioning by hand, so for some stuff, Home Depot is the way to go. I have cut up broken mahogany coffee tables, part of a desk, a walnut credenza, etc. just for guitar wood. Flooring stores, particularly joints like Lumber Liquidators, can be great sources for inexpensive hardwood. They will often sell short/damaged pieces of flooring. It is normally 1/2" to 3/4" think but definitely useable -Just cut off the tongue & groove business. I think I paid about 20 bucks for a box of red oak and probably got a dozen necks out of it. As far as finishing goes, I spray the necks with about 6-7 coats of lacquer. The fingerboards get finished last: A couple of coats of tung oil if it is maple; Tru Oil or lemon oil for other species. Then buff like crazy.
Wow. You can see how little I know about wood working and wood in general. I need to see if I can get my hands on some better wood! I have been getting hardwoods from home depot (oak and poplar) and none of it has such a rich color. Do you oil the wood at all?
Thanks. I didn't stain any of the wood in this build. That's just plain old walnut with maple stripes. I just glued it up and carved away. I think most of the walnut even came from the same board, but there was a bit of variation in color. I was probably running low on walnut when I started putting this one together. Although I did manage to configure the headstock wings so that the lighter colored wood faced the back.
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Thanks for the info. Like I said, I don't know much at this point. Since I'm down in the southeast, we don't have too many maple trees (or good maple syrup). The Lowes & Home Depots around here don't carry it, just the oak and poplar.
I know a guy that frequents the same drinking establishment that I do that works for a company that specializes in high end woodworking. I showed him some of my guitar pics, and he mentioned something about grabbing some of their scraps. I'm going to have to take him up on that offer.
I sometimes buy maple & oak 2x from home depot. The stuff I get from my hardwood place usually needs to be dimensioned and I don't own a jointer/planer so I have to just go for it on the table saw and finish dimensioning by hand, so for some stuff, Home Depot is the way to go. I have cut up broken mahogany coffee tables, part of a desk, a walnut credenza, etc. just for guitar wood. Flooring stores, particularly joints like Lumber Liquidators, can be great sources for inexpensive hardwood. They will often sell short/damaged pieces of flooring. It is normally 1/2" to 3/4" think but definitely useable -Just cut off the tongue & groove business. I think I paid about 20 bucks for a box of red oak and probably got a dozen necks out of it. As far as finishing goes, I spray the necks with about 6-7 coats of lacquer. The fingerboards get finished last: A couple of coats of tung oil if it is maple; Tru Oil or lemon oil for other species. Then buff like crazy.
Wow. You can see how little I know about wood working and wood in general. I need to see if I can get my hands on some better wood! I have been getting hardwoods from home depot (oak and poplar) and none of it has such a rich color. Do you oil the wood at all?
Thanks. I didn't stain any of the wood in this build. That's just plain old walnut with maple stripes. I just glued it up and carved away. I think most of the walnut even came from the same board, but there was a bit of variation in color. I was probably running low on walnut when I started putting this one together. Although I did manage to configure the headstock wings so that the lighter colored wood faced the back.
Great job! That's a beautiful guitar. The headstock looks great. I love Brick House boxes too.
To get the contrast between the light and the dark wood on the headstock, do you stain the separate pieces wood prior to gluing them together?