Luthier Wood Review: Eastern White Pine for Guitar Top tonewood
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2024
- Inside the Luthier's Shop with BigDGuitars. Eastern white pine was the first tele wood... Kiln Dried for furniture is different than what you will be getting at Home Depot and Lowes/home depot
Currently building a Tele out of a slab of E white pine that was used as a headboard! I’ve laid it out so that both pickup routs are in real hard dense knots hoping it will produce wicked sound vibration transference.
There's a risk with pine knots that they will shrink, come loose, and drop out. Routing through knots will take time and patience, many passes taking very small bites.
@@pulaski1 Hey thanks for your reply. Tele is finished and turned out well. Wish we could post images. The area where the knots were was very tight and hard but my little depth at a time routing worked like a champ.
@MrBritrider Great, I'm glad it worked out for you. I agree it's a pitty you can't show us your work, if only RUclips had a way to post pictures or videos, that would be wonderful! 🙄
I aspire to build some guitars out of some pines that grew in my yard. I felled them myself, got a local sawmill to cut them into boards and slabs, then stacked them to dry. They've been stacked for five years, so they're definitely ready to use, it's just a pity I don't currently have space for a workshop. I may start cutting up some of the slabs into guitar blanks though. I also have oak boards and slabs which I'd like to have a go at making guitars from though oak is not often used for guitars.
I notice your username is Britrider - does that mean you're British?
Pine was only used during the development (prototype) stages. There was never a production level pine guitar from Fender. Have you looked at what the roasted pine bodies?
It looks to me like a lot of the additional cost over construction grade is because it has no knots.
If you want to buy construction grade timber and dry it, you can get it down to 6% using nothing more than a fan and dehumidifier. I made a 3ft x 10ft x 4ft high (with bricks and blocks on top) stickered stack of green lumber in my garage (cut from my own trees), and the fan and dehumidifier got it down to 6% in 6 months. Being summer in the south, the temperature was consistently in the 80F-90F range.
I took the timber to a local kiln to get it dried, finished off after a period of air drying, and the owner was surprised to find that it was already as dry as kiln-dried lumber.
No, it's the water, not the knots. I pick thru the 2*12s at the big box stores every couple of months looking for that knot free plank from the center of the tree. After cross cutting, ripping and drying, I get functionally quarter sawn pine that way. I use them for guitars and furniture.
But I have a ton of room in the basement for them.
@@bsdnfraje Agreed, if you have the time and patience you _can_ find knot-free high quality timber in the 2x construction grade timber, .... or you can buy premium grade pine, which is knot-free and quarter sawn
@@pulaski1 So we're agreed, the price difference is drying time, not quality or appearance?
@@bsdnfraje You can fix the water level for any timber, but you can only solve the knot problem by investing your own time and digging through construction timber ... or paying top dollar for premium lumber.
@@pulaski1 Yes, Capt Obvious, that is correct. Of course, that still means your initial post was in error.
I have one ready to come down. Wind took half it. Great quality
Good to know. Thanks again for these vids D.
I love your videos, man. You're a cool guy. You make great guitars and you have a great attitude. I'd like you to work on one for me one day.
InstaBlaster...
My partscaster has a spruce nitro painted body. Its resonant and soft wood to. Im goonna try to relic it soon, and i probably must be careful because its not a hard wood as a maple or ash?
Thanks - very informative.
Just came across this video. Pine here is pretty cheap. You can buy these big scaffolding boards here that will be fine. Probably need to joint two together.
yeah i live in belgium and i'm able to get 3 or 4 bodies worth of pine for less then €30
Pine in general is very soft.
Leo Fender knows anything good for his product..
Original broadcaster just the excelent tone for Telecaster..
I'm working as a salesman at guitar shop..and i tried every single vintage guitar..
Very open sounds and raw..
Fantastic!
beh-neh-deh-toh.
I have bought Alder 8/4 for a lot less than pine
Hello I have strat guitar recently I found that the strings tension is very hard so what should I do???? Plz help me out. Thanks
Do you think pine is perfect for guitar body, or not??:)))
Eb pitch when tapped
Have you ever tried the leather dyes on pine?
I did on this spruce. It’s a tad blotchy at times. Antique Violin Finish on a Spruce Top Guitar using Transtints bigdguitars
Does white pine stain well?
what about spruce?
does pinewood require grain filler?
nope not usually
I have nice piece of pine for a top of my somethingcaster project...thank you for answer and keep on with nice works
Pissed my pants when you mentioned the taptone. Are you serious?
What do you think of paulownia as a telecaster wood?
Montana Ranger I love it! Super soft. I make lots of aged teles so it's fine for that.
What is weight of that body?
Can I have the other half of your sandwich?