The best guitar in the world - Neck - Solid slab of brazilian Rosewood

Slotting a solid brazilian Rosewood neck - old school slab style . Fender old school slab-Gibson Scale length and 12 radius 25 frets - neck through the body construction . tip : once you measure out your fret marks properly - take a right angle Square using the center line of your neck through and scribe the top of your neck slab with an Aul so your saw blade has a nice starter slot to begin cutting into .

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• brazilian
• rosewood
• johnny
• rushmore
• tsak
• guitars
• luthier
• strat
• neck
• through
• the
• body
• 25
• fret

[mandohat]

This is hilarious...If that's Brazilian Rosewood, why don't you go ahead and get a nice original tortoise shell pickguard. Maybe you could make a gig bag from the skin of baby seals.

[JohnnyTsak316]

@mandohat You are in unbeleif ? That's on you Mandohat ! It is most definetly Brazilian you scoffer ! Tropical exotic hardwoods of latin america sold me this outstanding piece of brazilian rosewood (Dalbergia Nigra) 6 inch wide by 2 inch thick 39 !/2 long and it came into the country in 1955 . Got the parerwork to prove it son - thanks for not beleiving .

[panhead1219]

@JohnnyTsak316 I think the point that moron was trying to make, was that you chose such a beautiful piece of wood, that is supposedly very rare and comes from the "evil rain forrests".

That's why he mentioned the baby seals and tortoise shell crap. He's a tree hugger.

Probably voted for Mondale, too.

[Mindstealer2]

Combining woods with different features is not only better for the sound that your instrument will produce. It's cheaper, lighter and it'll be harder to break if well glued. Won't wrap that easily. But just my opinion...I wonder why great masters like, Hauser, Fleta, Lacôte, Torres came up with this silly idea of building combined wood guitars.

[Mindstealer2]

@pcpaglia the grain is all in the same direction. There's high possibility that it'll bend. A counter grain wood would balance it. If it's figured anywhere it's more likely that it'll wrap/ crack/ break . Even with climate issues. It's heavy as hell, the guitar will be unbalanced. All the weight will be on the neck. Rosewood is good on high frequencies, not so good on lower, therefore there will be no resonance. Why making a one piece wood neck if you can comnbine different woods?

[Mindstealer2]

@pcpaglia the grain is all in the same direction. There's high possibility that it'll bend. A counter grain wood would balance it. If it's figured anywhere it's more likely that it'll wrap/ crack/ break . Even with climate issues. It's heavy as hell, the guitar will be unbalanced. All the weight will be on the neck. Rosewood is good on high frequencies, not so good on lower, therefore there will be no resonance. Why making a one piece wood neck if you can combine different woods?

[pcpaglia]

@Mindstealer2 No way ?!?! Its stronger then maple with a denser grain and harder / tougher specific gravity of mass - your nuts - its rosewood not balsa wood ?????

[Mindstealer2]

And another thing - that's not how you should saw a fretboard. You look like a lumberman

[Mindstealer2]

That's a terrible mistake...Playing a hole concert with that guitar will be like having an adult st bernard in your arms for the hole time. And it'll be short time till it's all warped. You'll spend two salaries on that guitar to be flattening it your entire life till there's no neck left. You shoulf have some reinforcement there with another wood which grain would go in the oposite direction, or a truss rod. A fingerboard is also essential for this counterbalance.

[vladlashing]

Dont hate on the guy for using Brazilian. So what if there are good guitars from common wood. He wanted to go the extra mile. We cant all be home Depot /Walmart people.

I've used alot of Braz and there is a reason it was the RW of choice for decades before it became a hot topic.

[OddTimeMan]

This is serious overkill. There are many high-quality, pro-level guitars in this world that are made of common, available, and fairly inexpensive woods that look/feel/play/sound AMAZING.