I decided I wanted roasted wood in my guitars, so I hung 'em one by one over a fire in my hearth.
Maybe I shouldn't have used Royal Oak Charcoal Lighter Fluid to get the process going a bit faster, but I was attracted by the idea of a lighter fluid made for royalty. Anyway, after the first one, I decided to try again, and just my luck, the next one also caught fire.
Well, I wasn't going to give up on my idea, so I kept trying, but they all turned to ashes. I'm going to buy more guitars and keep trying to get this process right.
I've applied for a scientific research grant, hopefully that will come through.
This should have been an easy mod, but every single one caught fire, and there wasn't much I could do to salvage the situation, so I enjoyed a nice fire.
Apropos of the thread topic, I removed the pickups before trying to roast them, and sure enough, none of the pickups were the same, but after the guitars all burned up, I couldn't resist throwing the pickups onto the pyre. Oh, and the cases. I mean, who needs an empty PS case? The wooden cases all burned quite nicely.
I can also report that the body of each guitar crackled differently from the others, proving once again that wooden guitars sound different from one another.
I saved the ashes for anyone who wants a few Private Stocks and a Wood Library model really, really cheap.
Anyway, I don't have any guitars any more.
This evening I'm going to try to melt the rubber on a pile of tires - for recycling, of course - and see if a similar problem arises when extreme heat is applied.
My wife says I'm not allowed to try to roast the wood in my house, but I think the wood floors would look really good in a roasted caramel color. So that's my next project. If it works it'll be a nice surprise for her.
