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Location: Marlton, NJ | Here's the Viper I found on Craigslist today. Half of the tuning keys and the pickups were replaced. I'm guessing that those aren't the original knobs either.
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Location: Upper Left USA | No they aren't but I have some and Customer service has them too.
That is a luscious body! |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | That flame body just screams for a Custom Woody Pickguard...... |
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Location: closely held secret | Other than the non-original pups and tuners it looks very much like mine. And yes someday it will have a custom Woody pickguard.
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Location: closely held secret | Oh, I guess I should have mentioned that's a very nice looking Viper. But since it looks so much like mine, consider it implied. :cool: |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Especially since the 3 way got moved. |
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Location: closely held secret | Yah, I noticed that. Curious. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | The pickguard doesn't look altered in anyway... did they change the configuration at some point?
The serial number is 8572. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by MWoody:
Especially since the 3 way got moved. To whose house? What time? |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | You know, anytime I see the opportunity for a twisted, REALLY bad joke, and try to decide whether it's worth saying or not...Jeff beats me to it.
You have no shame, man...
Oh, and nice Viper - that is one smokin' body!
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Location: CT | Those look like the original knobs to me - refer to Waskels photo above. Just the 3-way has been replaced. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | I guess the size of the knobs threw me at first since all I had seen up until that point was a Preacher. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Definately original knobs, not original pickup that I can see, most of those type pickups won't fit without modification. good looking body, but Waskel's is unique with the curly maple showing through. I have seen some maple Vipers, but none with Waskel's grain.
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | That is interesting about the switch location. A couple of mine have it up front, but most have it between the knobs. Things that make'ya go hmmmmmm |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | They had to drill new screwholes for the pickups - something that I'll have to deal with (with the help of Dr. Woody??) |
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Location: CT | Originally posted by CrimsonLake:
I guess the size of the knobs threw me at first since all I had seen up until that point was a Preacher. The active preacher had the same size knobs. Just the passive ones with dual vol./tone knobs were smaller.
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Bailey:
Definately original knobs, not original pickup that I can see, most of those type pickups won't fit without modification. good looking body, but Waskel's is unique with the curly maple showing through. I have seen some maple Vipers, but none with Waskel's grain. Definitely not original pups.
I got mine from StephenT - originally thought to be maple, now we think it's mahogany.
I'm not great at identifying woods, any thoughts on what mine might be? I'd love to know for sure. |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | Sure - send it to me for a week...
Actually, it really looks like maple to me. Most of the mahogany bodies I've seen have grain running up and down the body, not side to side. That just has the right look for a nice solid maple. |
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Location: closely held secret | It'll eventually be up there for Mike to work on, you can look at it then. It does play like maple. Great sustain. |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Originally posted by edensharvest:
.....Actually, it really looks like maple to me. Most of the mahogany bodies I've seen have grain running up and down the body, not side to side. That just has the right look for a nice solid maple. Andrew, The grain in Waskel's Viper (which I too believe to be maple) is still running up and down the body.....It's the "flame" of "medullary rays" that you see running side to side! |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Waskel
I went back and looked at your guitar again. That is definately a curly maple grain. our local vintage instrument outlet, I'll give him a plug here as he as been good to my son, and his "Buckeye Bluegrass Band", "Mountain Music" on Solana, he had a maple Viper but not with that curly maple grain, it was actually quite plain and HEAVY, ces't la vie. Your's is unique.
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | Originally posted by Trboy:
Andrew, The grain in Waskel's Viper (which I too believe to be maple) is still running up and down the body.....It's the "flame" of "medullary rays" that you see running side to side! Way too large of words for midnight... :confused:
I was more speaking on a "purely unprofessional and casual observational" level - I saw a nice BW once in mahogany that had almost stripes running up and down the body, hence my comparison. |
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Location: closely held secret | Medullary rays (Bot.), the rays of cellular tissue seen in a transverse section of exogenous wood, which pass from the pith to the bark.
Thanks Tr, I love learning new words!
Thanks for your help, Andrew, Tr and Bailey. Looks like maple, then. Well, Stephen, now we know! |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | "Give me all your Lupins!" |
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Location: closely held secret | In a bunch, in a bunch! |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | A note to ex-Wabbit
You can find many examples of great curly maple wood used in instruments on the back and sides of many fiddles and my solid wood Jap made 70's mandolin.
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