Well, at least it's wood:
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And some old paint and rattlecans.
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Then this happenend:
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Ha, good one! Now what kind of band would you play that in?
I like it. "The Constructioncaster."
Quote from: drbassman on April 13, 2015, 06:59:42 AM
Ha, good one! Now what kind of band would you play that in?
The carpenters? :-X
De Piet Hein Eek Group
It reminds me of the Partridge Family bus...
Soooo...what does cargo pallet tone sound like? Taylor made a custom acoustic guitar model out of one a few years ago that sounded (surprise) pretty much like every other Taylor. How does a decidedly LESS "processed" 'solid body' bass made out of one sound?
Just goes to show you that you can make a guitar out of just about any wood, even a cigar box or crate!
You don't even need wood. Here's a guitar (http://s23.postimg.org/7wxn296pn/pan.jpg) I built a while ago.
I took a couple of pallets apart once. It was the HARDEST, nastiest damn wood I ever have touched. Even nails would break rather than pull out of it. Anyone who is brave enough to work with it has my condolences.
I once saw Bob Culbertson with the Stick Band play a guitar made out of a mannequin. And another guitar made out of a (working) TV.
Tried to find pictures or video of either one, but amazingly, there is nothing I can find!
Then there is the scene in From Dusk Till Dawn in which one of the band Los Lobos (vampire edition) plays a guitar made with body parts.
Weren't Leo Fender's first guitars made out of white pine purchased as common 1 1/2" lumber? The early pine Telecasters are highly sought after I believe
Hardwood pallets are common, at least here in the US, and they're not cheap. The appearance grade usually isn't that good but that's understandable. They do have to have enough undamaged boards to be able to take whatever load they're designed to carry.
IIRC the early Esquires were eastern white pine.
Back when I was young, and very broke, I serviced blue line (blueprint) machines. These beasties weighed a ton or so came on some stout pallets. I remember some were made of red oak, soft maple and many were pecan. They were bitch to knock apart as I surmise that they were assembled from green wood that dried around the nails I did make some killer porch swings though.
Swamp ash was Fender's cheap replacement for eastern pine. It's the same species as northern ash but due to location grows faster. That makes it less dense. Now expensive because as the south has been cleared for housing it's been harvested. Also used to be called 'punky ash'.
In the early 90s when I bought rough ash lumber a few hundred board feet at a time to use in furniture approximately 5% could have been called swamp ash. I complained to my supplier and got a discount.