ajileguitar wrote
Just reading this post with some interest.
I live in Australia and my job is cutting logs for sawmills. So I am quite familiar with Blue Gum and as Bob has said any body made from this wood will be a back breaker unless it can be chambered enough to lighten the load? But my feeling would be to stay away from it.
Anyhow that's just my 2 cents worth !!
Well I'm willing to experiment with it just for fun ? why would you stay away from it though? Is it the weight or because of tonal qualities?
I was planning on clambering it and capping it in maple or another figured wood ?
Other woods I was looking at were cherry, wenge, Blackwood and oak...
From my view, even though some woods are favoured above all the others, I still think that no wood is really a "Bad" tone wood... Just different ?
peterleroux wrote
There isn't really a timber for electric guitars that hasn't been tried and liked by someone. Oak is one that was traditionally avoided because the timber is full of small cracks (medullary rays) but I believe Brian May's Red Special has oak somewhere (fretboard?).
For construction building applications, well seasoned saligna performs nearly as well as teak in terms if hardness and strength, so it's plenty strong enough. Also pretty heavy, but that does vary a lot from tree to tree, and I know the mills plant these trees where they will grow quickly (and hence be less dense)
Yeah the saligna is heavy but not very dense... And interesting combination.... It may or may not work but we'll never know if we don't try ?
It's all for fun anyway... If they turn out bad its back to the drawing board... ?
