Purple heart guitar body. The board i found was the only one big enough for a one piece body. Hi guys so i got this one piece purpleheart tele body in trade from crane550 and his awesome home cnc about a year ago and havent done anything with it since because its heavier than hell and hard as iron so im a little apprehensive about working with it as in im afraid my router bits are going to grenade and kill me when i go to do the roundover etc. Bring some unique color to your next guitar build with a purpleheart fretboard. Ive been looking on httpswwwcraft suppliescoukcgi binpsprodcatcgi2.
Working with purpleheart a dense hardwood from south america. 50 videos play all mix making of streamer stage i 5 string 14 piece purple heart body 16 3172 youtube 5 string bass guitar build part 1 duration. Just look at that figuring. Beautiful and unusual purpleheart fretboard blanks.
Length 480mm 500mm width 70mm depth 6mm 8mm stay tuned to our youtube channel for video tutorials on how to effectively use this tool. I had paduk on the brain which is the next video. This flying vee looks like a very nicely made guitar i had to search the web to find a good picture of a purple heart guitar usually the wood gets very dark and eventually turns a brownish blah color. Fanblade instruments 8102 views.
Purpleheart a very hard dense wood for excellent sustain and similar to bubinga in its thick well defined bottom. The timbers used construction method quality of construction hardware pickups and amplifier. It makes great stringers and rails. A spare was made based on the same specks red heart ii and a third one was eventually made in the color purple purple heart.
As ebay is being a complete i might have to make my own body. I took the body over to see it in the sunlight. Purple heart behaves. Its too heavy for me to use as body wood.
It was kind of brown not very purple. The color is a striking purple and can be used to compliment purple guitars. Inside the luthiers shop. Steve used this guitar on the ultra zone tour and wrote the song fever dream with it.
When i had finished sanding it the sun broke through just then into the basement where i was working. We can swap out pickups we can change an amplifier or we can even add effects into the mix.