about all-maple construction gt,help

[necrowolf]

Re: about all-maple construction gt,help

Originally posted by sah5150:
Why don't you get the parts from Warmoth and build it yourself?

Steve

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">...after I check out the website,i found its almost impossible to make this,I am from China,shipping charges and impost cost so much...

[eaeolian]

Re: about all-maple construction gt,help

I guess it depends on if it's soft maple, or hard maple. I had a Pink Guitarz custom that was all maple, and it was light AND very resonant - kinda on the dark side. The body was "soft" (western bigleaf, I believe) maple, and the neck was Canadian "rock" maple.

I sold it to my singer. Stupid of me. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

Mike

[mudkicker]

Re: about all-maple construction gt,help

If you don't mind modding a guitar. I had a 77 fender strat all maple. It had killer tone, but it weighed a ton. Thats why I sold it, wish I still had it now. There are tons of late 70s model strats around. Although I have noticed that their prices are slowly starting to go up. thats one option.

[pro-fusion]

Re: about all-maple construction gt,help

Carvins may be tough to find outside the USA, but look for a pre-1991 Carvin if you want all-maple (though most have ebony fretboards). A lot of the early '80s Carvin DC150s were entirely maple, including fretboards.

I find Carvin all-maple guitars to be very bright-sounding, but then so are their maple/alder guitars, if not quite as much so. The quality that hard maple gives you is tremendous crispness on the notes. You can use a ton of distortion and still pick out every note. But you do have to get the right pickups--preferably something with a bit more low-end, or the guitars can get tinny.

I have noticed, though, that the '80s Kramer all-maple guitars seem to be fuller sounding than Carvins.

[HuntinDoug]

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I owned an Alvarez (for a very short time) that was all maple with active pups. I don't remember the model #, but it was the one with the lower cutaway that curled under the neck. You could actually look at the back of the guitar, and see the strings thru the cutaway. It was a weird guitar! It had a very "tinny" sound....Didnt have any lows at all. It was solid maple (rock maple I think). I couldnt use a wah with it because it had so much treble. I dumped it real quick.

Give me MAHOGANY....or give me death! OK....well maybe not death.

[quiksilver]

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I have a Kramer Focus 1000 (Japanese Baretta) EVH replica with a solid maple body & maple Warmoth neck. Sounds great with a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom mounted directly, and I've never felt it was particularly heavy compared to my alder-bodied Jacksons.

[Bert]

Re: about all-maple construction gt,help

I own a solid flame-maple bodied guitar (Jackson USA '86 custom S/N 1266 in the Gallery) and surprisingly it's not heavy (though I wouldn't call it light either). It has a rosewood board and a very unique resonant tone.

[zeegler]

Re: about all-maple construction gt,help

Regarding the wieght of maple, yes it can be heavy, but let's face it, mahogany is heavy too. It depends on the piece of wood. Some maple is heavier, some is lighter. It will never be as light as poplar or alder, but it doesn't have to be uncomfortably heavy. I'm in the middle of building a guitar with a maple body, and it's not particularly heavy so far, and I haven't even routed the pickup cavity yet, or contour sanded.

[necrowolf]

Re: about all-maple construction gt,help

folks,how about this:
81Charvel Pre-Production Natural Maple Body Maple Pre-Pro Neck Standard Trem 2 Hum
http://www.nealsmusic.com/guitar52.htm

[Sunbane]

Re: about all-maple construction gt,help

Ask them why they are showing 2 different necks in the photos, and if the actual one is the one with the Floyd repair. The control layout strikes me as odd, and the pickups aren't even properly aligned. Also, isn't the back route wrong for that time period? This screams "fraud!" to me, but I'm no Charvel expert...

[83SanDimas]

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Jamie

The Alder/Floyd rose guitars are always bright and sometimes brittle, requiring treb tweeking, Now thoseBC Rich guitars of yours, well they were creamy.... [img]images/icons/cool.gif[/img]