Hey Spud Look at This!

[layboomo]

Here one wierd one for ya.....workin' on my Worn Yellow Gibby SG...The pickup cavity is clearly solid Mahogany yet look at the control cavity??? WTF wierd eh?

[Ricochet]

I think it's a multiplex body, and they managed to route exactly between the layers... what did I win?

[RotcanX]

Actually, I believe you'll find that that striping is from the routing process. Since there are doing it with a CNC machine these days, it basically takes very shallow cuts as it goes around and around making the cavity. What you are seeing is the edge of each cut.

 

What I like is the cheapass caps that Gibson uses. So much for improving your tone with boutique capacitors.

[layboomo]

I think it's a multiplex body' date=' and they managed to route exactly between the layers... what did I win?[/quote']

 

But I scratched the paint off in a few spots in the pickup cavity and it's solid wood...no ply's?? It's almost like the control cavity has a plywood insert...very strange.

[layboomo]

Actually' date=' I believe you'll find that that striping is from the routing process. Since there are doing it with a CNC machine these days, it basically takes very shallow cuts as it goes around and around making the cavity. What you are seeing is the edge of each cut.

 

What I like is the cheapass caps that Gibson uses. So much for improving your tone with boutique capacitors.[/quote']

 

Yup those are coming out next there guy!!! Thanks that makes sense......I know it's a cheap gibson but plywood ....c'mon! LOL

[Ricochet]

Actually' date=' I believe you'll find that that striping is from the routing process. Since there are doing it with a CNC machine these days, it basically takes very shallow cuts as it goes around and around making the cavity. What you are seeing is the edge of each cut.

[/quote']

 

Hmm, could be... I remember seeing either the Gibson or Epiphone routing process on a little quicktime and it was one go.

30 something cuts wouldn't be very cost effective anyway. And why doesn't it show on the PU cavity? Weird.

[charlie brown]

Actually' date=' I believe you'll find that that striping is from the routing process. Since there are doing it with a CNC machine these days, it basically takes very shallow cuts as it goes around and around making the cavity. What you are seeing is the edge of each cut.

 

What I like is the cheapass caps that Gibson uses. So much for improving your tone with boutique capacitors.[/quote']

 

I'm tending to agree with RotcanX, here. Routers can (and often) do that! You might even be able to feel it?

 

CB

[layboomo]

 

I'm tending to agree with RotcanX' date=' here. Routers can (and often) do that! You might even be able to feel it?

 

CB[/quote']

 

Thats exactly what it is and you can feel it...but you gotta admit it sure as hell looks laminated at first glance?

[charlie brown]

LOL,....yeah, probably gave you a bit of "start" at first, huh?

Makes one wonder what other guitars are really solid,

but the routings made people think they were "laminated"

or composit bodies? ;>b

 

CB

[garyelcrrt1281733995]

Shucks, the divots in my paint scrapper leave marks like that, too! I thought that's what it was...I just wondered how you worked it around the pots without damaging the wiring.