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Permalink Reply by Tom T on July 31, 2015 at 6:49am

That's some beautiful wood there............

You didn't mention what kind of pickup(s) you will be using. If you are using magnetic pickups instead of piezo, then you will want to stay with nickel strings instead of the bronze. Mags don't respond to bronze so only the inner steel wire of a bronze string excites the pickup. You will lose a good bit of volume if you don't use nickel strings.

As for the string gauges. The three you listed sound great. I use the 42, 32 with a 22 wound hi string. Sounds very mellow.

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Permalink Reply by john mackay on July 31, 2015 at 9:22am

its a flat pup pick up.

I was rather hoping that I could use gold coloured strings to match the pick up cover,bridge and machine heads.

beatifull wood wait till you see the rest of it.

I'll a little write up on  just to please uncle john and maybe not call us chit heads.lol

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Permalink Reply by John Sawyer on July 31, 2015 at 2:08pm

It will work, but like Tom said... Big loss of volume...

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Permalink Reply by Bama Hound on August 1, 2015 at 4:16am

John, you got a good one goin' right there.That is some great looking wood. If I have seen olive before, I didn't know what I was lookin at. Looks hard, if using hand tools. I machine my stuff but, I was curious.

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Permalink Reply by john mackay on August 1, 2015 at 5:53am

it rather easy to cut believe it or not.

its rather oily wood.

it was a bread board .

when I saw it in the shop (island of Crete) I had to have it.

didn't anything to it  ,the shape is as is.

the best grain is on the other side but I'm right handed.

you can buy them off ebay.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_sacat=0&_nkw=olive+wood+board&a...

this is nice piece of wood,its not kilned dried but just leave it in the hot sun.

it'll look really nice once done.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Exotic-Quilted-Figured-Maple-Slab-Live-Edge...

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Permalink Reply by Tom on August 1, 2015 at 1:28pm

WOW ! Nice tip on the wood. THANK YOU ! ! !

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on August 1, 2015 at 6:49am

John,

Here's what you're looking for:

http://www.amazon.com/Optima-Plated-Electric-Strings-010-046/dp/B00...

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Permalink Reply by Bama Hound on August 2, 2015 at 4:23am

Ron, I checked those out. If I ever want to put a Rolls Royce hood ornament on a Volkswagen, I now know where to get 'em. LOL

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