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Colin
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robelinda2
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if you can find Alberts two instructional books, they have HEAPS of pics of the "axis". the two dvds have heaps of great footage of it too.
Colin
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that body is not capped with maple it is all flamed maple from front to rear!
Tim O'Sullivan
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It must have been a heavy guitar?
Colin
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not sure. is maple that heavy a wood? Mahogany is heavy but maple?
DrBob
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Yeah Maple is quite a heavy wood.
Back when I was having a stab at building guitars I used to get all these catalogues from specialist wood suppliers.
And I remember that one of them used to list the S.G. (Specific Gravity I think) of each of the types of wood next to it.
The higher the number, the denser the wood, and from what I can recall the SG of Maple was noticeably higher than for Mahogany and Limba Wood (Korina). And then I think that Wenge and Ebony were even denser than that
I hope this helps
58super
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The same type of wood can vary in weight. Certain *other*guitar companies use the lighter mahogany and ash in their custom shop models and use the heavier stuff in their regular production (in the case of mahogany after drilling holes in it to reduce the weight ).
If you want to see a variance in weight have a look at warmoth and check the variance in the weight in the same body type with the same wood. In swamp ash you can find a 2 lb difference.
I can only imagine the difficulty EBMM has in sourcing consistent quality wood and yet they still do
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Tim O'Sullivan
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I once played Dave Hill from Slade's custom maple guitar with a maple body, and it was very heavy indeed. Other all maple guitars I have played have been quite heavy too.
