Gecko Strat Hollowcaster
Quilted maple is a very elegant wood. It's not cheap either. This piece has a sort of chevron, upward slant to the quilt pattern. For those of you not familiar with how they get this piece of wood, both sides are cut from a single slab of maple, right down the middle. It's called book matching. You see the right is essentially a mirror image of the left side. That's because it is the left side, opened like two pages of a book.
This is a shot of the quilted maple top, with a wash of alcohol to show the grain. You can see the outline penciled onto the wood and reference holes. These holes are lined up with the holes on the body. Later when the neck pocket, pickup and control cavities are routed, these holes help line up everything with a template so that every guitar is the same every time.
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