Going to make some meteoras!

I have a neck now! This is black limba topped with wenge. Super light. 7.25 radius. 0.84” thick at the first fret. 0.95” at the 12th.
This limba carves way easier than maple! The wenge splinters like anything. It’s a cool fretboard but I won’t be using it again lol.
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Elias Graves said:
I have a neck now! This is black limba topped with wenge. Super light. 7.25 radius. 0.84” thick at the first fret. 0.95” at the 12th.
This limba carves way easier than maple! The wenge splinters like anything. It’s a cool fretboard but I won’t be using it again lol. View attachment 90412View attachment 90413View attachment 90416View attachment 90414View attachment 90415
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That Black Limba neck is killer! I have some laying around that I am trying to decide what to do with. (I won't be doing a guitar neck)
Wenge is beautiful but definitely a pain in the ass. That open grain really does want to splinter. Black Palm is even worse.
I am currently building with Peruvian Walnut that is just gorgeous and a real pleasure to work. I was cutting miters and it was just smooth as glass. Not sure how it would do as a tone wood but it is definitely pretty! lol
 
MonkeyZero said:
That Black Limba neck is killer! I have some laying around that I am trying to decide what to do with. (I won't be doing a guitar neck)
Wenge is beautiful but definitely a pain in the ass. That open grain really does want to splinter. Black Palm is even worse.
I am currently building with Peruvian Walnut that is just gorgeous and a real pleasure to work. I was cutting miters and it was just smooth as glass. Not sure how it would do as a tone wood but it is definitely pretty! lol
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Yeah the wenge loves to splinter and so does the black palm. Ugh I tried to work with that stuff once and gave up!
 
The tuners arrived. I’m trying something different. I’ve been using a lot of Gotoh hardware lately and like the quality so I ordered some “magnum lock” tuning machines with small butterbean knobs.
To use the locking mechanism, you use a screwdriver or coin on the top of the post to loosen the jaw. Run the string through and it re-locks as you tighten it.
We shall see how well that works. These are the shortest post tuners I’ve ever seen, too.
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And she is done! The copper paint didn’t work out so I went with some canary yellow.
Full specs…
Body: African mahogany
Neck: Black limba and wenge
Bridge: Cutoff tele with three compensated brass saddles
Nut: Graph tech
Tuners: Gotoh mini locking
Pickups: Gibson USA P90. Standard in bridge with A2 magnet swap. The neck pickup is a new low wind A3 version from Gibson
Wiring: Standard tele style with 500k pots and .022 cap
Finish: Body is Mowhawk nitro lacquer, neck is shellac
Weight: 6 pounds 10 ounces
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One of the dangers of buying certain pieces of wood sight unseen is that sometimes you get some questionable looking shit. Fortunately, we have dyes.
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A quick little side project here. I sold a body.
It’s a piece of poplar routed for a P90 bridge pickup and a tele half bridge. I am going to paint this one transparent olive green and make a black pickguard for it.
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Check this out. Transparent army green LP Jr/Meteora mashup!
Poplar body. Super thin lacquer trans green. New owner is providing his own neck, pickup, hardware, etc. I am just sending him the body and pickguard.
It’s very light. 5 pounds 10 ounces without tuners.
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And this is how we do comfort carves. A die grinder with nasty teeth spinning at 25,000 RPM! It will rip this out in about a minute flat.
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And my cleanest comfort carves to date, I would say. And I located the aniline dye I wanted. I’ll dissolve the powder in alcohol then mix it into some shellac, which will become my color coat. Then probably gloss lacquer over that.
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Elias Graves said:
And my cleanest comfort carves to date, I would say. And I located the aniline dye I wanted. I’ll dissolve the powder in alcohol then mix it into some shellac, which will become my color coat. Then probably gloss lacquer over that.View attachment 92142View attachment 92143View attachment 92144
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Read this and it made me think of way back on HC. "And I located the aniline dye I wanted. I’ll dissolve the powder in alcohol then mix it into some shellac, which will become my color coat. Then probably gloss lacquer over that."

I remember you were experimenting with rusty nails, going for an amber tint. Did that work out or, did you come up with something better? Love the feel of Tru oil, hate the naked white look.
 
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