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A sound clip of my prototype home-build guitar!


Greg Bogoshian

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Remember, this is less than $10 worth of wood in this body... It is plugged into my Genesis 1 on Tweed amp and American 4x10 speakers directly into my sound card. I added a little chorus on the last couple of runs. Pickups are Carvin Holdsworth H22N in the neck and C22B in the bridge. I am selecting (you generally will be able to hear the switch) between full humbuck and individual coils, and between neck and bridge pickups. I didn't begin to cover all of the options because there are too many! The clip would have been too long. Full treble on the tone control and flat on the Genesis. Plywood top and back and pine hollow body. Carvin neck (the only thing I did not make). Here's the link to the clip... Enjoy! Boggs

 

http://www.angelfire.com/ny5/boggs.com/Guitarproject/Prototypetest1.mp3

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Originally posted by seven7

cool deal. it'll be interesting to hear how the koa version sounds.

 

 

Actually, that one will be made from Padauk and mahogany with thin layers of maple between the 1/4" thick padauk top and back and the mahogany. The koa is for an entirely different guitar which will be another year at least before starting as the wood needs to season. That one will be a solid body.

 

The "murky" tone is in part the result of the very soft pine that the mahogany neck is bolted to. Also, the plywood has a fairly soft core and is only 3 layers thick although the top and back are total 1/4" thick each. I could have brought out more with a bit of compression and tweaking the tone controls, but I decided to leave it set flat for a basically uncolored preview. There is a helluva lot more potential there even for this cheap wood... Truthfully, it sounds way better than it has any right to considering what it is made from! Boggs

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Originally posted by Greg Bogoshian



Actually, that one will be made from Padauk and mahogany with thin layers of maple between the 1/4" thick padauk top and back and the mahogany. The koa is for an entirely different guitar which will be another year at least before starting as the wood needs to season. That one will be a solid body.


The "murky" tone is in part the result of the very soft pine that the mahogany neck is bolted to. Also, the plywood has a fairly soft core and is only 3 layers thick although the top and back are total 1/4" thick each. I could have brought out more with a bit of compression and tweaking the tone controls, but I decided to leave it set flat for a basically uncolored preview. There is a helluva lot more potential there even for this cheap wood... Truthfully, it sounds way better than it has any right to considering what it is made from! Boggs

 

 

oooh, i didn't know that..cool....you're right, your test pieces aren't ideal for tone wood, but it does sound good for what it is! the sound should certainly improve.

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