Check out this tele neck.

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eelblack2

Discussion Starter · May 27, 2010

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Sorry for the crappy Iphone pics, I can't find the camera anywhere.

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eelblack2

Discussion Starter · #21 · May 27, 2010

Kim said:
Oh shit that's a nice floor! walnut?

Good eye, and thanks. Yes, it is Italian Walnut. I have some fro0t wood dependency issues to work through. :hsquid:

Funny story today; The neck came in and I started doing the frenetic oil/sand/oil/sand thing on it while working. One of my business partners walked in, saw me "stroking it" furiously in the corner with oil and sandpaper, and walks out slightly horrified. He later scolded me for "fapping away with wierd shit" while sitting in on a phone conference with snooty banker and lawyer types.

Max

· #22 · May 27, 2010

Drew said:
I'm considering it, I need to pus SOMETHING there. :lol:

:squint:

7deadlysins

· #23 · May 27, 2010

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eelblack2 said:
I can tell you one thing for sure, I have just found my sub-1000 category neck builder for the consortium. This guy is amazing, and he charges almost nothing. I guess he is trying to establish a rep/street cred.

And who is this builder? That looks Really nice!

Kim

· #24 · May 27, 2010

eelblack2 said:
Good eye, and thanks. Yes, it is Italian Walnut. I have some fro0t wood dependency issues to work through. :hsquid:

Got the same floor upstairs, merbau downstairs. oh and a wenge counter top in my kitchen. long live teh fro0t! :hsquid:

DslDwg

· #25 · May 27, 2010

That neck is hot - gotta telecaster needing a neck

Wonder if the wood isn't this: (first thing I thought of when I saw it) Bocote?

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eelblack2

Discussion Starter · #26 · May 27, 2010

I think you might be right. The more I look at images of Bocote, the more I see coloration and grain similarities.

It looks like it may have been flat-sawn, or whatever the correct terminology is, to exaggerate the longer grain streaks.

Leon

· #27 · May 27, 2010

I like Chocolate Zebrawood better :agreed:

technomancer

· #28 · May 27, 2010

Now that you mention it that does look like it could be Bocote

eelblack2

Discussion Starter · #29 · May 28, 2010

7deadlysins said:
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And who is this builder? That looks Really nice!

It's a guy out of Englishtown, NJ named James Duffy. I get the impression he may be slightly old-school, because of the way he referred to the wood species, and because he definitely knows how to make a dead-ringer for a '52 Butterscotch neck. The profile is identical, and with the much bigger 6100 frets, it is perfect for my Tele tastes.

He had the sister neck, from the same block, I think, carved out Strat style. I'm thinking about grabbing that one too, now that I see the quality of his work.

Now that the oil has gotten in there really deeply (6 waves of sanding and oil), the pores are closing up beautifully, and she is getting that broken-in Maple feel, rather than Rosewood. :yesway:

7deadlysins

· #30 · May 28, 2010

eelblack2 said:
It's a guy out of Englishtown, NJ named James Duffy. I get the impression he may be slightly old-school, because of the way he referred to the wood species, and because he definitely knows how to make a dead-ringer for a '52 Butterscotch neck. The profile is identical, and with the much bigger 6100 frets, it is perfect for my Tele tastes.

He had the sister neck, from the same block, I think, carved out Strat style. I'm thinking about grabbing that one too, now that I see the quality of his work.

Now that the oil has gotten in there really deeply (6 waves of sanding and oil), the pores are closing up beautifully, and she is getting that broken-in Maple feel, rather than Rosewood. :yesway:

Looked him up, no website im guessing, pretty old school. :yesway: All I found was something about frankenstraat.com, which doesn't exist.

budda

· #31 · May 28, 2010

hot damn, do want.

Hungoverstin

· #32 · May 28, 2010

Crazy cool swirl AND exotic wood, AND a tele. Its every corksniffing stereotype rolled into one!

The thing looks killer! You gotta go with black/gold hardware on that thing!

eelblack2

Discussion Starter · #33 · May 28, 2010

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It's Bocote

I did some more research, and I'm about 99% sure the neck wood is Bocote. The grain and coloration are a little out of the norm on my piece, but the dead giveaway is the smell of the wood while I was sanding the shit out of it. Every builder I've read about has commented that Bocote smells like "hot pee" or "pickles" when it gets hot from cutting, and that is definitely the smell I was picking up while sanding it today. I kept looking around the room thinking Benny pee'd my rug, but he wasnt even in the room.

Lesson learned, if it smells like hot pee pee when you are working it, it may well be Bocote. I also noticed this wood is fairly expensive and complicated to work with, so I am shocked that I only paid 200 bucks for this neck. Warmoth is getting 460+ for Bocote backs and Ebony boards.

Other Bocote examples:

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Max

· #34 · May 28, 2010

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Benny's Benny scented Bocote

eelblack2

Discussion Starter · #35 · May 28, 2010

Do I want Joe Barden Ganny Gatton pickups in this? I'm thinking I might, despite the strange double rail look for a Tele.

Batch Masterson

· #36 · May 28, 2010

Whore!

Max

· #37 · May 28, 2010

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eelblack2 said:
Do I want Joe Barden Ganny Gatton pickups in this? I'm thinking I might, despite the strange double rail look for a Tele.

If
you want sizzle sizzle tele twang, then yes.

What did you go for as far as nonwhoop

Elysian

· #38 · May 28, 2010

eelblack2 said:
I did some more research, and I'm about 99% sure the neck wood is Bocote. The grain and coloration are a little out of the norm on my piece, but the dead giveaway is the smell of the wood while I was sanding the shit out of it. Every builder I've read about has commented that Bocote smells like "hot pee" or "pickles" when it gets hot from cutting, and that is definitely the smell I was picking up while sanding it today. I kept looking around the room thinking Benny pee'd my rug, but he wasnt even in the room.

Lesson learned, if it smells like hot pee pee when you are working it, it may well be Bocote. I also noticed this wood is fairly expensive and complicated to work with, so I am shocked that I only paid 200 bucks for this neck. Warmoth is getting 460+ for Bocote backs and Ebony boards.

Other Bocote examples:

Bocote's actual cost is really low, it's no more or less expensive than birdseye maple or ash or mahogany from a $/board ft. Companies like Warmoth charge more because it looks expensive, not because it actually is.

eelblack2

Discussion Starter · #39 · May 28, 2010

Any type of wood pricing is going to vary wildly based on the grain/quality/weight/size of the actual block in question. If you saw some of the Bird's Eye stuff I was pricing for a large private future use stash, you'd crap your pants vs. what average BE goes for board-foot.

darren

· #40 · May 28, 2010

Brian got really nauseous working on a Bocote fretboard. Like 3 days of nauseous. It's one of those woods that can be hell to work with if you have a sensitivity.

http://www.wood-database.com/wood-articles/wood-allergies-and-toxicity/

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