Adding wood to a guitar?

[dscythe]

Hi guys,

I realize this is both ridiculous, and would probably be very expensive for little to no benefit, but would there be any downsides to adding a large piece of wood to a guitar? I've been looking for a cheap(ish) hard tail explorer type guitar, with the same shape as a gibson one (aside from a kelly none of the other variants do it for me) but with a slimmer neck profile/jumbo frets, etc. The best alternative i found was actually a kramer imperial but those are proving to be incredibly hard to find in a TOM version.

Anyway, a thought occurred to me. The Charvel star is basically just an explorer with a triangle chunk cut out of the bottom, could that chunk be feasibly re-added? I know it would add a huge cost for the wood and repainting and is borderline heretical. But could it be done?

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Cheers

[xenophobe]

You can do just about anything if you pay enough money. Why don't you just buy a new body, have it painted and then throw a neck on it? If you're not doing the work yourself, it would be cheaper.

[dscythe]

That would work too, although I haven't been able too find many nice bolt on explorer bodies either.

[Metal Spawn]

Have you checked out the KNE XPL???

http://www.kneguitars.com/rad_bod.php#Xplorhome

[Iceberg794]

Have you checked out the KNE XPL???


http://www.kneguitars.com/rad_bod.php#Xplorhome

KNE make solid bodies. I ordered a mahogany hardtail dinky, coupled it with a model 2 neck, and she sings very beautifully.

[dscythe]

Have you checked out the KNE XPL???


http://www.kneguitars.com/rad_bod.php#Xplorhome

These look very promising, thank you! Wonder why they never came up in any of my searches.

[FunkyApocalypse]

The names for the KNE bodies are awesome haha.

[shramiac]

You can add anything to a guitar to make it work! For example.......

http://www.vvforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=6142

[straycat]

KnE makes great bodies I have had a few and was very pleased with them.

[msaint65]

KNE body....Warmoth neck. KNE does great work.

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