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When Leo Fender made the first Telecaster in 1951 (originally called the Broadcaster), the necks were a solid piece of maple. The Stratocaster came out in 1954, also with all-maple neck. Leo was watching TV, as the story goes, and saw his Strat being played, and noticed the "wear marks" on the...

Gary Moore was a monster on guitar. Amazing feel. As to bbb's post, in the electric guitar world, Brazilian (or other) rosewoods for that matter are usually used on the fretboard. Examples would be 1958 and up Strats, Les Pauls... A couple exceptions would be a unique solid Brazilian...

I've met Linda Manzer twice, at the Woodstock International Acoustic Guitar Showcase... a great person to meet, and she's had a few innovations thathave been used \by many builders... Check out the works of Ervin Somogyi and his apprentices - Jason Kostal, Mario Beauregard, Raymond Kraut...

While BRW is considered one of the "best" tonally and visually, it may not be the most appropriate depending on the musicians' needs. And at the thicknesses guitar builders deal with, .100" or less) the exact thing that makes the sound desirable is the same thing that makes them prone to...

Sometimes a piece of wood looks amazing as-is and I find it hard to cut or use it on a project, so I just hold it and stare at it for a while, and put it back in the stash... Those are stash woods!

There's no "better" woods, just woods better suited for The sound one seeks. I love the sound of walnut guitars, kind of a slightly warmer maple. May sound counterintuitive, but Gabon ebony is closer in sound to maple than BRW. Maple is generally characterized by a quick attack and fast...

Truce? And understood... As far as the BRW, the guys that know more than me (i.e. the guys building $30k+ guitars, a few I do keep in touch with), there is no discernable difference in "Q" with regards to grain direction, largely due to the similar stiffness values regardless of grain...

And demand... I'm sure it's similar to the custom guitar community. As a builder's reputation and demand grows, he stems it by increasing prices.

You didn't take my question to be satirical nor rhetorical because you hadn't read my previous posts on this thread. And you're right - I don't know who you are, but from your posts I pretty much know what you are, and it's not happy. And I never said I was the be-all, end-all source on...

No shamrock = no NcDermott = no buy... Not my cup of tea, but even McDermott doesn't make anything that weirdly designed. That said, everyone and their mother making cues have access to CNC for reasonable costs, so just because it's inexpensive doesn't mean the inlays are fake. And just...

Dude get your head out of where the Sun don't shine. No one would be foolish enough to do my whimsical exercise, and the fact you took it seriously? Guess the Good Humorless truck passed by again. If you hadn't deduced from my previous posts I'm a fan of straight grained woods. I even...

So if I loved the hit of BRW, but couldn't stand the straight grain, would you use the BRW as a core for a birdseye maple outer veneer?:idea2:

Happens even on apparently straight quartered wood. Not many people know this but trees more or less grow on a spiral, some more than others. Since the wood is usually sawn parallel to the tree's vertical axis, the possibility of grain runoff exists. The only way I know that assures you avoid...

If you had a perfect piece of solid maple, it can be made to be a LD shaft. Sorting through pallets of dowels to find the 10% or less that would be considered "perfect" would be a daunting and costly task. The pie construction just makes more yield of what otherwise would be barely passable...

Forgot to thank you for the reply.... Thx!

also... morado...

Beautiful work Tony... good luck with your cues at the show....

I think you totally missed my point about value... And value is not all about how much is spent on a cue. You can pay a couple thousand for a factory cue. And most likely, they're using the same blanks and shaft dowels from their standard issue cues. Just like a "custom" cue from a production...

When Efren first came to the US he didn't even know that pool was a "sport" here. Even changed his name because he was already well known as a money player. Tournament wise, he's made 5-figures a year the last 20-something years or so, including a 6-year run of 6-figures a year. DCC "Master...