ttmax
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Post by ttmax on Apr 29, 2019 23:37:42 GMT
Hi, time ago I have seen a couple of movie where in doubt if it is true that wood is the body, in particular I remember that one was a 450, the other if I am not mistaken a tele I don't remember which model. Well, as anyone know in this days, I enjoy to customize some my tele times with the hb te-52 and surprise, signing in those videos were right! I tried to enlarge the excavation to put a humbuker on the bridge. I don't have the right tools, but I found it difficult because that was ash is a kind of resinous mixture See See how the bosch tips are reduced . Does anyone have a similar experience? I really begin to believe those movies.
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Post by LeoThunder on Apr 30, 2019 2:44:17 GMT
I don't know enough about wood to make sense of these pictures. Do you think it is concrete with a veneer? Should be great for sustain
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Post by tarn on Apr 30, 2019 6:59:43 GMT
i have a TE52, i can assure you its wood al the way trough, using a drill as a router bitt will make the wood look odd. is it the best wood avalable, probably not. but wood none the less as a drill is ment to be use as a drill!!, and a router bitt as a router bitt top tip a wood chisel is te way to go when a router is not avalable. or even a dremel(or like wise) will give better results than a drill bitt. ps. not hating here but that's not moding, its closer to butchering
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Post by LeoThunder on Apr 30, 2019 8:08:51 GMT
It seems unlikely Thomann would veneer the bottoms and sides of routs. Or even the sides of a Telecaster body, for that matter. That should be more expensive than using just plain old wood. But if they did, it's an impressing job of matching the figuration in the hole itself:
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ttmax
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Post by ttmax on Apr 30, 2019 10:16:43 GMT
I do not doubt the sustain, simply, given how small the bits of the drill (two) are and the material that is also obtained using a chisel, it seems to me legitimate to doubt.
Sawdust is usually obtained when the wood is broken. Here it looks like resin powder or fiberglass, even using a hand tool I didn't get any shavings but something caramelized, that's all.
That this is the secret of his weight, honestly I have never seen a telecaster touch the 5 kg (if I am not mistaken 4,7). I can't then find the two videos I mentioned, which is why I didn't add any links.
I am not criticizing the sound or the tone, (there are also plexiglass guitars) obviously this is not the case, but a simple doubt I think is legitimate, also because knowing what material is made a purchased object can warn the user of materials dangerous, see times and the country in which they are built where the laws are very different from ours.
I found stranger that a wood can destroied two drill that can pierce the iron, i am wrong ?
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Post by micoli on Apr 30, 2019 11:26:10 GMT
My te-52 is definitely wood. My body is 2 pieces. I can see the grain. The grain runs from the top over the sides to the back. And when I swapped the pick-ups, I remember seeing the grain running through the pockets as well.
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Post by LeoThunder on Apr 30, 2019 11:30:41 GMT
I suppose the only way to know more is to cut another piece somewhere else. Do you really need that lower horn? Wouldn't you like a nice rib cut on the back?
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Post by LeoThunder on Apr 30, 2019 18:51:45 GMT
I like the humbucker look. Back to the wood question, ebay has one of these right now and it has a three (four?) piece body with very different figurations. Front and back seem to match:
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Post by salteedog on Apr 30, 2019 21:42:34 GMT
There was a similar thread on this forum before where someone thought the guitar material was not wood. I will have to search for it.
To be fair I've also noticed unusual hard material inside the cavity of of my CST-24T. It looked like a thick messy layer of poly lacquer/coating.
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