Prodlix Custom Guitar Works

Body Options

		Alder - moderate attack and smooth decay having a very even, full and balanced tone with well defined highs and clear lows.

		Mahogany - smooth attack and a rich singing quality giving warm, rounded tones. A maple cap will provide more brilliance and punchy lows.

		Swamp Ash - distinct ringing tones and produces transparent timbres with bell like overtones - alive and lightweight.

		Korina - beautifully resonant wood with all the characteristics of mahogany only more of everything.

		Walnut - has some of the woody tones of mahogany and its warm bass response but also mids and trebles associated with rosewood.


Neck Options

		Flame Maple - provides a bright, occasionally brittle edge with long sustain.

		Birds Eye Maple - provides a bright, occasionally brittle edge with long sustain.

		Rock Maple - provides a bright, occasionally brittle edge with long sustain.

		Mahogany - smooth attack and a rich singing quality giving warm and rounded tones.

		Korina - very resonant exhibiting all the characteristics of mahogany only more of everything.

		Wenge - adding brightness and attack with percussive snap.


Fingerboard Options

		Brazilian Rosewood - it imparts a glassy tone being very resonant, producing deep bass response and brilliant trebles with a slow decay - very bell like.

		Indian Rosewood - helps fatten up the midrange though highs tend to be dampened by the woods high oil content.

		African Ebony - it has a crisp attack and fast decay, tending to add brilliance to the sound and imparting snap.

		Asian Ebony - it has a crisp attack and fast decay, tending to add brilliance to the sound and imparting snap.

		Ziricote - exhibiting all the tonal characteristics of brazilian rosewood.


Top Options

		Flame (tiger stripe) Maple - when used with mahogany it provides more brilliance and punchy lows.

		Quilt Maple - as with flame maple, as a top it tends to focus tones when matched with other woods.

		Figured Tasmanian Blackwood - a close relative of koa, which has similar tonal characteristics to mahogany. As a top it tends to sit well with mahogany's tone spectrum.

Glossary of terms

Set through neck - a neck that has an extended heel that sits within the body and is sandwiched there by the top creating a very strong and responsive joint. The neck often extends to beneath the bridge.

Violin carve - where the guitar top is fully carved from front to back and centre to edge as an elongated dome. The top will exhibit a shallow scooping out before rising to meet the edge - called a re-carve.

End fret - employing a brass end fret at the end of the fingerboard to bring the neck pick-up backwards into a better tone position in relation to the harmonic points and so improving overall tone.