Anyone ever owned a walnut body/ walnut neck guitar?

[Max Headroom]

As I'm always looking at different axes this one struck me as a little odd.
A walnut body with a three piece walnut set neck and a quarter inch slab flame maple top and a flame maple fretboard.

Looks nicely made but not sure just what type of "house" sound to expect from those wood combinations.
It does have PRS Vintage Bass and HFS pups though so it's in the family tree...lol.

 

[Alnus Rubra]

I have a maple top, walnut body non PRS. It’s a nice combo.

Neck is Utile (similar to mahogany)

Hope this helps a bit.

 

[watelessness]

i had a claro walnut body strat with birdseye neck. massive spank, massive clarity

 

[Max Headroom]

i had a claro walnut body strat with birdseye neck. massive spank, massive clarity

I was thinking it would have a clarity and ability to cut through the mix that more traditional PRS wood's might not.

It certainly would be interesting to test the theory....
I smell another NGD coming on...

 

[KentuckyBoiledChiccan]

I have walnut blocks in the tremolo cavity. It probably doesn't count

 

[Max Headroom]

I have walnut blocks in the tremolo cavity. It probably doesn't count

I have walnuts in the deli dish..
Very sure that doesn't count

 

[ViperDoc]

I used to see a lot of walnut on bass bodies, not as much anymore. Like the wing tops on a Smith bass…

 

[Max Headroom]

I used to see a lot of walnut on bass bodies, not as much anymore. Like the wing tops on a Smith bass…

Now you mention it, yes that might be last time I saw walnut on a guitar.
But hard pressed to remember seeing it used on a 6 string.

 

[ViperDoc]

Now you mention it, yes that might be last time I saw walnut on a guitar.
But hard pressed to remember seeing it used on a 6 string.

01 Ken Smith Elite BT 6 String Flame Walnut – LowEnd Bass Shop Vault

 

[Moondog Wily]

https://forums.prsguitars.com/threads/ngd-santa-loves-walnut.53403/post-759808

If anyone could tell you about Walnut in guitar builds, @11top would be your man!

 

[Max Headroom]

https://forums.prsguitars.com/threads/ngd-santa-loves-walnut.53403/post-759808

If anyone could tell you about Walnut in guitar builds, @11top would be your man!

@11top appears to have gone AWOL. Not seen a post for some time.
But that was certainly drool worthy!

 

[Moondog Wily]

@11top appears to have gone AWOL. Not seen a post for some time.
But that was certainly drool worthy!

Try sending him a PM. Maybe he will respond! I understand he has not been present, along with a large swath of the old school crew here ;~((

 

[Rider1260]

The old Gibson Firebrand SG and Les pauls were walnut , its a fine wood lots of it is very plain so not much to look at.

 

[archtop]

I had a Rickenbacker Dakota which is maple neck-through with walnut wings, and also a Carvin DC400 that was 5 piece maple/walnut neck-through with walnut wings. Both were nice guitars, sounded great amplified but not acoustically resonant like a nice mahogany, alder or swamp ash.

 

[Greywolf]

I've built two , love Walnut . Both 24 fret neck throughs Walnut neck and bodies with ebony boards. Warmer then Maple and cuts like a knife.

 

[Lewguitar]

Albert King is playing a solid walnut Flying V in this video.

This is what walnut sounds like when Albert King is playing it.

 

[Lewguitar]

Here's some more about Albert King's Black Walnut Flying V.

A legendary guitar Dan Erlewine made in Ann Arbor or Ypsilanti, Michigan back around 1969 or 70.

He made a Stratocaster for Otis Rush out of the same Black Walnut.

I knew Dan back then and watched him work a little on that Flying V.

It had a distinctive "pluck" or "pop" to the electric sound. Clear. Not so "woody" as it was clear and plucky.

The pickups were just Gibson's stock humbucker of the time. Same pickup Gibson would have put in a SG or ES-335 from that time.

Albert King’s Flying Vs | Vintage Guitar® magazine

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[Sybo]

Had a “Ric” 360 in walnut. Wish I still had it!

 

[Max Headroom]

This is all great stuff but you do realize that you ain't helping any with my GAS....

 

[Max Headroom]

Albert King is playing a solid walnut Flying V in this video.

This is what walnut sounds like when Albert King is playing it.

Albert King could make a toilet seat guitar sound spectacular!