Old house = new guitar build

[shtdaprdtr]

So I just bought my first home for me and my fiancee to move in after the wedding day this fall. In the meantime we are doing some major reconstructing. Im building a guitar room of course but we also decided to rip apart the low ceiling/attic to make our dining room into a cathedral ceiling. As we were doing this..were cutting the ceiling beams and lo and behold....these large beams im taking down are pretty lightweight. They also feel hard and dry and happen to be pine. Well the house was built in 1958...so this wood is at least 53 years old.
Then I pick up a beam...give it a rap with my knuckles...sure enough..they are loud as hell and as I hit different areas of the beam..front to side...Im getting a couple of different really loud tones. So immediately I stash some of this pine to the side as we are re-using some of them for framing of new windows...etc. I see a hardtail strat finished in oil in the works...perhaps with a thick trussrod-less neck. Normally pine would be used for a tele build but what the hell...lets see a pine strat and what it could sound/look like.

 

[shtdaprdtr]

may have to finish the house before the build really commences...but ill see if I can put together a video/sound/tone test of the wood.

 

[Barnaby]

Awesome! Congrats on the marriage, too. May there be many happy years of you building and her patiently putting up with her husband's strange obsession.

 

[decoy205]

Congrats!! It's a lot of work but it will be worth it! Good luck!

 

[Reverend D]

Congrats on the house and upcoming nuptials.. I saw in the latest Musicians Friend catalog which is in my library at home Fender has a Pine Strat out now, I guess after the success of the Pine Tele they added a Strat, I'm not sure when but I'd say fairly recently. Such old timbers ought to sounds divine. It would seem like a natural with the woody sound of a Strat, should be awesome. Congrats again, and good luck!

Regards,

Don

 

[shtdaprdtr]

Congrats!! It's a lot of work but it will be worth it! Good luck!

The guitar....oh I know it'll be worth it. The house and marriage.....

 

[shtdaprdtr]

lets make it a pine strat with a 24 3/4" scale...haha!

 

[oscaron00]

nice move there, if new house = old hose = new guitar. then wife = all brand new xD

 

[shtdaprdtr]

nice move there, if new house = old hose = new guitar. then wife = all brand new xD

been with fiancee for 8 years...so it will seem like old wife.
Just kidding in case anyone I know is reading this.

 

[ievans]

Before you take a router to any of that wood, I'd get a metal detector to make sure you're not going to hit any nails.

Oh, and post some pics. 8^)

 

[52trapeze]

Congrats where did you move to? Are you still on the island? Pine is a great wood, it can get really light sometimes too. Think of it this way Leo Fender didnt hand select his woods, ive heard that the lumber he got was the same grade as framing lumber! Hell they make alder teles, why not a pine strat! Good luck!

 

[Macdaddy]

I would love to see pics of the age rings on those pine boards. They have to be much more numerous than the new fast grown pine we get these last 20 years. My first house was built in 1939, the 2x4's and 2x6's were rock hard Fir. I dulled many a blade remodeling that house! They absolutely do not make them like They used to!! LOL

Congrats on the nuptials!!