Ever since I saw picture in this post I believe this is the right place to ask. I'm considering ordering a custom one and before I make my (stupid?) move I'd love to hear some advices and suggestions from you guys, especially from tubby.twins who seems to have A LOT of experience with medium Gecko's.
First of all I'd like to get corrected in my thoughts and opinions. I'd like some exotic woods on neck which is not very surprising, considering Warmoth offers so many exotic woods...
I like red color so I think bloodwood could be used as shaft wood to match my red color love. I once had Warmoth with bloodwood fingerboard which was awesome, great feel similar to ebony, very smooth and it looked really great. But I'm not sure how'd it be as shaft wood? There's also padauk, which is usually red too, but I have no experience with it. Is it as smooth as bloodwood? Or more importantly, is it better as shaft wood? Or do you think this is complete nonsense and I should rather stick with regular wenge (I kinda like it too, but red is better :-D)?
Neck laminates would be probably "standard" bubinga, but surely I'll entertain other suggestions. I think those lighter laminates would look quite nice on red core wood.
Fingerboard is a bit tricky. As I already said I once had bloodwood fingerboard and it was cool, but I'm not sure if another bloodwood wouldn't make the neck "too red" or "too dull" (not sure of the right words, but I hope you get the point)? Maybe ebony would be better option? One thing I'm sure, I don't really like rosewood fingerboards, so it definitely won't be any rosewood there. If you have any other suggestions what would or would not look cool, just shoot it there.
Gecko inlay depends on final decision on the fingerboard. Bloodwood would look cool if it was ebony I think, not sure if the inverse combination would look cool too. In case of red fingerboard I think something lighter would look better, maybe goncalo or maple?
Despite kind of exotic neck, I'd like to keep body pretty minimalistic. I'm thinking of swamp ash or possibly walnut? Not really sure I'd need any top, but if so, I'd probably stick with something usual as flame maple. Spalt maple might be also option and zebrawood looks also cool. But those are in my opinion a little too much extravagant. I'd probably stick with simple swamp ash with dyed finish with enhanced grain. Color could be from honey like to dark red. As always, not sure about it :-D
First of all I'd like to get corrected in my thoughts and opinions. I'd like some exotic woods on neck which is not very surprising, considering Warmoth offers so many exotic woods...
I like red color so I think bloodwood could be used as shaft wood to match my red color love. I once had Warmoth with bloodwood fingerboard which was awesome, great feel similar to ebony, very smooth and it looked really great. But I'm not sure how'd it be as shaft wood? There's also padauk, which is usually red too, but I have no experience with it. Is it as smooth as bloodwood? Or more importantly, is it better as shaft wood? Or do you think this is complete nonsense and I should rather stick with regular wenge (I kinda like it too, but red is better :-D)?
Neck laminates would be probably "standard" bubinga, but surely I'll entertain other suggestions. I think those lighter laminates would look quite nice on red core wood.
Fingerboard is a bit tricky. As I already said I once had bloodwood fingerboard and it was cool, but I'm not sure if another bloodwood wouldn't make the neck "too red" or "too dull" (not sure of the right words, but I hope you get the point)? Maybe ebony would be better option? One thing I'm sure, I don't really like rosewood fingerboards, so it definitely won't be any rosewood there. If you have any other suggestions what would or would not look cool, just shoot it there.
Gecko inlay depends on final decision on the fingerboard. Bloodwood would look cool if it was ebony I think, not sure if the inverse combination would look cool too. In case of red fingerboard I think something lighter would look better, maybe goncalo or maple?
Despite kind of exotic neck, I'd like to keep body pretty minimalistic. I'm thinking of swamp ash or possibly walnut? Not really sure I'd need any top, but if so, I'd probably stick with something usual as flame maple. Spalt maple might be also option and zebrawood looks also cool. But those are in my opinion a little too much extravagant. I'd probably stick with simple swamp ash with dyed finish with enhanced grain. Color could be from honey like to dark red. As always, not sure about it :-D
