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Dude, Congrats from another G&L fan. Post pix when you get her.

The Heritage H-575 is a fine guitar indeed. Only you can decide if you will be happy with the Guild (I have no experience with the Fender made Guilds). A couple of questions occurred to me: Are those DeArmond pickups the same dimensions as standard humbuckers? I ask this because it would be...

Man I hate those stories. I lost an original '52 Les Paul that way. They took the guitar out of the case and left the case. I'm sure it was some teenagers. I bet they beat around on it and chucked in a campfire when they got done. Damn shame

My Tele is a G&L ASAT Jr. All mahogany including the neck, finished cherry red to match an old LP Jr. Stop bar & TOM. They got that one RIGHT.

BTW, It's just slightly too long for a standard Strat/Tele case. Can anybody recommend a hard case that'll fit?

Virtually no fretwear. just a bunch of little dings from being moved from room to room.

Thanks notCardio. By the way, the tenor version of our Vega guitar is on e-bay right now.

Thanks!

I already have a G&L ASAT Jr. You NEED to test drive an ASAT, especially an ASAT special. Leo's last design for the Telecaster is amazing. Those MFD pickups are killer.

G&L S-500. Body date '82, Neck date '84 Clear blue with matching headstock. Tasty Goodness:):):)

This would be a good time to consider replacing the jack with a better quality one.

So is the issue of neck joint settled? How is english walnut as a neck wood? I would expect it's properties to be similar to maple. Perhaps we could do a 5-ply neck of english or curly claro walnut with curly maple stringers and a padauk center stripe. The wings could also be padauk. The...

SGs have gone through a wide variety of neck profiles. I agree that the popular wide flat profile is pretty flexible. Some of the others, not so much. Is it your experience that Les Pauls and 335s have this problem?

Mahogany has been and remains the neck wood of choice for most of the acoustic guitars (including 12 strings) that have ever been built. These are typically strung up with higher tension strings than electrics. Most Les Pauls, PRS, SGs, 335s, and many, many others, have mahogany necks. It is one...

In my view you were participating in an on topic discussion that was part of what I'd hoped this thread would become.

To the school kids: The thread IS about designing a guitar. When you grow up you will understand that this is how a committee process works. The sidebar discussions are about whatever interests us as we go along. This is as it should be. You may go back to your spitballs now. To Muttley, You...

I have a preference for mahogany over maple as a neck wood. I would be interested in a non-traditional substitute for either of the two. Do you have any suggestions for woods that you've worked with for the neck that I should consider? I mentioned black limba earlier in the thread. English...

As I remember from 10th grade shop class there will be no real difference. The rigidity seemed the same. With ten examples four broke with the glue joint partially involved. We did not have test equipment for accurate measurements. Let's just move on.

I have never argued that the neck through design provides better sustain. I agree with you on that point. I was just trying to understand how a set neck could be more rigid.

Using adhesives that would be typical in the construction, isn't it true that a wood joint glued end grain to end grain will tend to separate at the joint rather than somewhere else on one of the boards when subjected to sufficient stress? The neck through design using a one piece neck blank has...