This is rotten...

feylya · 12-09-2005 1:15pm #1

Rotten wood I mean:

Some people can make guitars from anything. Apparently, the wood is completely rotten. He had to pour about $20 worth of super glue into the wood to make it workable.

jcoote · 12-09-2005 1:55pm

the pic is ****ed fey or is it just my browser??

edit: it was the browser

its not the worst finish i've seen tbh...

feylya · 12-09-2005 1:57pm

What do you mean ****ed? Looks fine here

Edit: J, that's a natural finish...

jcoote · 12-09-2005 2:02pm

i know its natural but it looks good like...did your man finish it ie pups etc or is it stilla work in progress do u know

feylya · 12-09-2005 2:04pm

Still in progress. I just think it's cool that he got a lump of rotten maple and made a guitar from it (or at least caps for a guitar)

jcoote · 12-09-2005 2:07pm

yeah it is quite a job...woulld it sound good tho??

feylya · 12-09-2005 2:09pm

Yeah, should do. Read a big thing about it before but I can't remember it now...

jcoote · 12-09-2005 2:15pm

i like maple that would be my choice of woods tbh...just feels better than the rest i have played...

feylya · 12-09-2005 2:16pm

Bare maple neck. Mmmm...

Doctor J · 12-09-2005 2:20pm

Bad idea. Rotten wood? Pshaw. I like mine fresh

Eoin Madsen · 13-09-2005 12:46am

Spalted maple! Warmoth do it. I saw a solid body warmoth tele on some website recently... partially rotted wood does seem strange... but this was the most beautiful telecaster I've ever seen, tbh.

mc nuggets · 14-09-2005 5:02pm

jaysus rotten wood wouldn't it start to smell after a while

mc nuggets · 14-09-2005 5:03pm

looks nice though.

Eoin Madsen · 14-09-2005 8:21pm

mc nuggets wrote:

jaysus rotten wood wouldn't it start to smell after a while

No.

It's partially rotten, dried out somewhat, cut and carved etc, then finished. It doesn't rot any more after that than your average guitar would.

fish-head · 14-09-2005 8:36pm

Must be an ex-Squier man. :P

dimerocks · 15-09-2005 3:46am

its a bit weird,cant decide do i like it or not.there's always be a fear playing it that its going to start breaking up in your hands.

Eoin Madsen · 15-09-2005 11:43am

dimerocks wrote:

its a bit weird,cant decide do i like it or not.there's always be a fear playing it that its going to start breaking up in your hands.

Have you played it? They're exactly the same as any guitar. Spalted maple is fairly solid.

jimi_t · 15-09-2005 3:15pm

Would all that glue not have a serious effect on the resonance/tone?

Doctor J · 15-09-2005 3:21pm

Not really, if you picture the amount of glue which your average legendarily-resonant Les Paul would have to keep the maple cap on, the neck, the fretboard, etc.

jimi_t · 15-09-2005 11:00pm

But it's one thing binding with glue, it's anoher thing entirely building with it! Tha t thing seems to be structurally dependent on glue right to the core, surely that would really deaden the sound?

feylya · 15-09-2005 11:01pm

Not really. Glue will resonant too.

Johnny Storm · 16-09-2005 8:33am

I'm feeling the early stirings of GAS for a radical new design of guitar made 100% of glue

Doctor J · 16-09-2005 8:53am

A gluecaster? Hmmm..... maybe you could package it in a brown paper bag

Johnny Storm · 16-09-2005 10:04am

It's key selling point would be that you couldn't loose it.....

Doctor J · 16-09-2005 11:24am

jimi_t wrote:

But it's one thing binding with glue, it's anoher thing entirely building with it! Tha t thing seems to be structurally dependent on glue right to the core, surely that would really deaden the sound?

It's not uncommon. The Kubicki Factor bass had a neck made of 34 strips of maple laminated together, so more glue in that one too. They were excellent instruments too.

mc nuggets · 16-09-2005 6:25pm

is the guitar above the almost finished version of the rotten one or is it a different guitar

mc nuggets · 17-09-2005 6:43pm

mc nuggets wrote:

is the guitar above the almost finished version of the rotten one or is it a different guitar

obviosly not. sorry

This is rotten...

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