finished guitar- with quilted maple top

[Ken Massingale]

Beautiful Alex, you done real good.

[TheRic]

Looks Great. Love the looks of that quilted maple!!

[Wood_workur]

Nice work! I'd love to give it a try. Are those Seymour Duncan pickups?

no, golden age pickups from stewart-macdonald.

Very nice. I love grainy guitars; I've got an Ibanez jumbo acoustic that is curly maple.

Is the maple laminated onto the body? I noticed a different grain on the back. What is the main body wood? What finish did you use?

~g

its all maple (with a piece of walnut in the back of the neck you can't see...) the top is a veneer

Man! That is beautiful. I hope it sounds as good as it looks.

it does.

That quilted maple is gorgeous!

Tell us more about the pickups and wiring scheme....

it is a jimmy page styly wiring scheme I found online, here is a link: http://guitarelectronics.zoovy.com/product/WDUHH3T2204

SWEEEET! How about an audio clip of it in action?

I'm working on it... I can't get the sound good enough for it to sound accurate.

Looks Good!!

so now you have got to let us in on the details. what finish did you use? what pickups are you using? how many positions on the switch? what strings? what bridge? tuners? how does it sound?

finish= dyed burst (dyed brown sanded in the middle, then dyed red) and then danish oil
pickups are stewart macdonald golden age humbuckers
3 position switch (gibson standard) but the knos are also a 2 position switch, which makes a whopping 48 switch configurations (but only about 20 will produce a unique sound)
strings are d-addario ultra lights
bride is a TOM from guitar fetish
tuners are wilkenson locking tuners, also from guitar fetish
sounds really good, I can make it sound like a strat, a tele, a les paul, and anything in between.

Finishing, man, how did you finish it?!??!

dyed burst (dyed brown sanded in the middle, then dyed red) and then danish oil applied, then I let it cure for a week, and rubbed it out with steel wool, and mineral spirits, then buffed it with paste wax. its very smooth, very easy to apply, and very nice on the neck (of the guitar, not mine).

[mater]

That is beautiful work.

[wouldchuck]

C'est magnifique!
Ausgezeichnet!
Awesome!