Local wood for guitar body

[rmanala]

look bowes guitar on fb,hes using tamarind ( sampalok )wood.my current guitar also is made of sampalok.

[free2rock]

[dennis22opina]

Kaimito is a hard wood, almost solid.

A friend just got some Kaimito with awesome flames. Downside is, it's as heavy as a rock LOL

I has a Custom guitar with caimito top..yep the wood is heavy and very very hard (like the bandsaw giving up hard) I was expecting the guitar to sound very bright because of the hardness of the wood..but the opposite actually happened. The guitar sounded thick and warm. 

[rmanala]

I has a Custom guitar with caimito top..yep the wood is heavy and very very hard (like the bandsaw giving up hard) I was expecting the guitar to sound very bright because of the hardness of the wood..but the opposite actually happened. The guitar sounded thick and warm. 

santol din may flames din.meron ako dito na patungan ng pc.natry ko na rin ang mangga,maganda kasi magaan lang.maraming custom guitar na made of mango sa youtube.mapaacoustic at electric.yung mga taga thailand mango eguitar nila na custom.

[loydariel]

nice discussions mga sir...lalo na si sir rj uber jam..ng-dare din po akong gumawa ng solid body guitar out of local woods...a tele body - les paul hardwares..tawag ko si telepaul..=)

narra top, ironwood neck phil.mahogany body, kamagong fretboard..

[dennis22opina]

nice discussions mga sir...lalo na si sir rj uber jam..ng-dare din po akong gumawa ng solid body guitar out of local woods...a tele body - les paul hardwares..tawag ko si telepaul..=)

narra top, ironwood neck phil.mahogany body, kamagong fretboard..

Nice..pics naman.. how's the sound? 

[loydariel]

sir dennis, panu ba magpost ng pics d2 sa thread na ito??? ..
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xenxa po bago plng nakisali sa mga discussions like these..panu mkaupload ng pics??..

..it's a warm sounding guitar, i used 2 chrome covered humbuckers..tried it in an epiphone 15w amp...& sa Goldea tube amp..its heavy though..haha..due to narra & ironwood neck nya..pero sa tunog, im fully satisfied with it..first project kong tumunog yun e..actually i first built a les paul replica, si Pablo..same specs of wood used..& 2hb pups, kya lng mas naunang na-complete installation c telepaul kya xa unang tumunog,..i can say na lalaban ang local woods natin in terms of tunog with "foreign wood"guitars..hehe..my subjective point of view..

[RJ UBEr jam]

Nakakataba naman ng puso!!. . Tnx loydariel

nice discussions mga sir...lalo na si sir rj uber jam..ng-dare din po akong gumawa ng solid body guitar out of local woods...a tele body - les paul hardwares..tawag ko si telepaul..=)

narra top, ironwood neck phil.mahogany body, kamagong fretboard..

maraming salamat sa na inspire. . .

Modification sa fretboard. . . nung wala magawa. . . MOP (Abalone) Eagle





Rock on!!!

[rmanala]

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[burnsbhm]

Mahogany is my favorite body for electric guitar, but then yun nga sabi it is very much regulated na. I am very interested in learning different alternatives to mahogany. The most popular is nato. Then there one called Kalantas. I remember when Mike Mushok was with Ibanez his signature guitar was made of Kalantas. I saw this wood for sale in Sagada and in the Banawe Rice Terraces gift shop. Pero sold as sangkalan (chopping board).

Maybe there are more. Korina is pricier and rarer than mahogany.

Any discussion about it is greatly appreciated.

[jbarot]

^True mahogany s easily available here.  In fact a lot of tonewood suppliers and even custom builders from the US source their tropical woods here.  So build without fear hehehe

I rediscovered my grandmother's cabinet, just dying away in a bodega, so I made a guitar out of it.  The cabinet is at least 50 years old.












Then I found a stump on the side of the road.  I just had to make something out of it.







I'm hoping to grow out of this phase of getting trash and making instruments out of them hehehe

[mandarin]

^True mahogany s easily available here.  In fact a lot of tonewood suppliers and even custom builders from the US source their tropical woods here.  So build without fear hehehe

I rediscovered my grandmother's cabinet, just dying away in a bodega, so I made a guitar out of it.  The cabinet is at least 50 years old.

nice jb.. is the lacote model a cedar/mahogany? is it made recently or a previous work? I haven't checked out that one yet

regards

[klemberts]

yung kaymito. maganda kaya yung body ng guitar?
matibay sya at medyo mabigat.

[free2rock]

yung kaymito. maganda kaya yung body ng guitar?
matibay sya at medyo mabigat.

Hindi lang "medyo". Sobrang bigat

[klemberts]

Hindi lang "medyo". Sobrang bigat

Haha! ang kama ko kasi gawang kaymito, ang hirap i-urong  at ang tibay(if u know what i mean)   
Pero curious lang talaga ako kung ano ang tunog ng gawang kaymito na gitara. Gawa naman kayo mga pilipinong luthiers!
At 'benta nyo sa mga body builders siguradong matutuwa sila di lang may gitara may pang workout pa 

[free2rock]

Haha! ang kama ko kasi gawang kaymito, ang hirap i-urong  at ang tibay(if u know what i mean)   
Pero curious lang talaga ako kung ano ang tunog ng gawang kaymito na gitara. Gawa naman kayo mga pilipinong luthiers!
At 'benta nyo sa mga body builders siguradong matutuwa sila di lang may gitara may pang workout pa 

Kung gagawa ako, bibilhin mo ba?

[coy_2cute]

^ dapat may kasamang gig bag! 

[fretboard]

^ dapat may kasamang gig bag! 

at walang white?