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Can anyone give me a link to a company (preferably UK but US if you have the link anyway) that sells kiln dried pine timber?
I'm dying to make a tele or strat body from some pine (after playing an LSL T-bone, my god those guitars are incredible). But I'm finding it very difficult to get any source with pine.
Thanks 
Any builders merchant will sell Kiln dried timber.
Can anyone give me a link to a company (preferably UK but US if you have the link anyway) that sells kiln dried pine timber?
I'm dying to make a tele or strat body from some pine (after playing an LSL T-bone, my god those guitars are incredible). But I'm finding it very difficult to get any source with pine.
Thanks
Seems it's fairly hard to get good Pine though 
Odd I was in the building game few years ago and it's all you could get back then.
Seems it's fairly hard to get good Pine though
Seems they call it 'whitewood' these days, but that covers a wide variety if softwood, so you need to get close up and check. We bought around a ton of kd pine for the studio from jewson around 8 months ago.
I was thinking it could be pitch pine, but just did a search and it's 'Sugar Pine'. I don't know if they are the same thing, in the UK about 25 years Pitch Pine was expensive.
Normal white wood will twist and just about do everything you don't want it to(Being a Carpenter I have a little experience). Follow the Sugar Pine search I'm sure you'll find something.
Well I went to a sawmill today. No luck with the pine. They have loads of it but it's all pine cuts from near the centre of the tree (rings are too obvious, could cause bowing )
They did say they have mahogany though, and redwood which could be interesting, since fender just done this new redwood old growth thing. Might give it a try.
Your going about it all wrong. The guitars that use pine are not dried out by Kiln's. The are pieces that are from recovered wood sources such as rail road tracks, barns, old houses etc. LSL if I'm not mistaken does that as well as the new Pine classics from Fender that claim their wood is over 200 years old in some cases. The wood has dried out due to the fact that its sat out for years upon years. Plus some of these guitar still have the old rusted nails in them, the fender would be an example of that. Really you need to find an old pine barn steal the timbers from the inside somewhere that was unexposed to the outside elements. See if you have better luck with that.
Your going about it all wrong. The guitars that use pine are not dried out by Kiln's. The are pieces that are from recovered wood sources such as rail road tracks, barns, old houses etc. LSL if I'm not mistaken does that as well as the new Pine classics from Fender that claim their wood is over 200 years old in some cases. The wood has dried out due to the fact that its sat out for years upon years. Plus some of these guitar still have the old rusted nails in them, the fender would be an example of that. Really you need to find an old pine barn steal the timbers from the inside somewhere that was unexposed to the outside elements. See if you have better luck with that.
I have looked for this for months with no luck. Either the company don't deliver (and I'm not driving a few hundred miles to pick up some pine boards that won't even fit in my car, they seem to refuse to cut them too) or there are loads of splits in it. Or the cost is insanely high...and the one place I found that sold it for a good price, good size, delivered cheap...never had any in stock.
I'm afraid it's really difficult to buy old pine in the UK.
I did know that the fenders and LSL guitars are using old pine (though LSL I'm not 100% sure on, but it most likely is old pine). Just it's insanely hard to buy it here.
Its funny I have some friends in town that are in the funiture manufacturing and also play guitar. None of them know each other but I asked all of them what they thought of about these new pine body solid body guitars. Every one of them turned their noses up to them and said they couldn't believe people would pay that high of a price for a guitar with such inferior wood. Then I remind them that Leo Fender started building broadcaster guitars and Esquires in the 1950's with pine as the body. I think they look cool and I've heard a lot of good things already about these guitars. Have you considered a cheaper route?
http://www.glendaleguitars.com/Bodies.htm
You can't get much cheaper then that $25 shipping Internationally
http://www.reddirtguitarworks.com/mm5/m … _Code=1000
I just bought a ash body guitar in their discount bodies section. I was going to get the one with filtron neck with the tele bridge but that was pine, however I didn't like the way the knots in the wood were right where they glued the body together. It didn't look natural. So I went Ash and it has 2 Filtron pickups. Anyway Jimi_LP you were my insperation because if not for you I'd never have looked for one. Thanks a lot! Eh I only blew $65. I'm thinking of doing an idea I've always wanted to do which is just oil the finish with no coating. That or just black with gold hardware. Its my new over 30 project. I needed something for my depression.
See, Simstruevintage do a pine tele body. I am considering getting one. But I really wanted to do it myself
So finding the pine is the real nightmare it seems. They said they get it from the US, but I couldn't find out where or how much it costs them.
These guys here have some yellow pine body blanks. Its already glued together but you can route them yourself. BTW my wife was pissed I bought finishing supplies and some hardware for my La Carbinita Telecaster build. As long as she doesn't look at my credit card and sees that musicians friend order I put in that she doesn't know about.... Shhhhhhhh. Only thing I hate is the pickups I want are TV Jones Filtertrons and the Powertrons with no ears so it limits me to just these pickups. That will be another $250 to $300 in pickups, and I need a classy neck for it too. I'm thinking of finishing it in Black no wood filler because I want the wood grain to show throw the gloss black. Chrome Bridge and I found these really nice knobs for the volume that are the metal casing shot gun shells of a Remington that are brass. I'm shooting for a pain jane stripped down guitar
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