Well Brian May's Red Special was oak. It works really well for my Amp cab, it's very resonant. Visually, it's very similar to Ash, and actually I think it would sound somewhat like that.ohm-men wrote: I really hope the oak one will be finished....I'm very curious in how it might sound. I often wondered myself if Oak could be used for Electric guitars....
The only hitch with the Oak body is he used two dowels in the neck pocket for registration, I don't know how flat the pocket would be. Might have to re-rout it for depth. We like our pockets CLEAN (see other thread).
You never know though. Well, yeah, I can understand that, but for maximum resonance, you really want a uniform, 1/4-5/16" thick top. The top the way it is, probably wouldn't alter the tone all that much, other than to kill the sustain. Which, if we're using a jig to do the top, wouldn't be all that difficult to reverse it for the inside of the top. I guess we're just meticulous.quarterpound wrote: crude!? wow, i'd be so satisfied with that -- i mean, it's an inside.
