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I have a bunch of extra Mahogany neck blanks that I bought from LMI.
They cost me $73 each but I am wanting to sell a few to get something
for my grandfather (story below) so I'm gonna sell a few of these for $60
(plus shipping) each. These are exactly the same ones I got from LMI for
$73. LMI has, hands down, the best neck blanks I've gotten anywhere.
Very well quartersawn, and wonderful grain structure. Awesome neck
blanks. I bought a couple thousand bucks worth of these blanks and I'm
gonna keep most of them. You'll get good blanks, not the bottom of the
bunch (well actually they are all really nice.. I had them pick through all
their stuff and get the best quartersawn ones.

E-mail me at john@mayesguitars.com if you want one or two (VERY
limited I'm only selling about 4-6 blanks)

Ok the story of my grandfather and why I'm even selling any of these.

My grandfather on my dad's side was recently robbed by his own son (my
uncle who has been in and out of prison his whole life) and he stole all his
guns (which are my grandpa's favorite and most valuable thing he owns).
He loves to hunt and now he can't. So my father and I want to buy him a
new gun that has interchangeable barrels (really quite cool as you can go
from shotgun, to Rifle, to muzzleloader..very cool system.. see
www.tcarms.com )so that he can hunt this year. We don't know how
much longer he will be around as he is about 75 but he has had a
pacemaker most of his life (he has went through 9 of them) and he can't
get around as well as he used to, but he still loves to hunt. So this gun
we are getting him should be able to do it all. Of course good guns are
not cheap, and it is going to cost around $600 and I'm going in half with
my Dad. Well I'm broke as it turns out (ok I'm always broke but that's
another story) from spending all my extra money on some new big things
going on in my business, so I looked around for some things I could part
with and I see about 30 Mahogany neck blanks! If I can sell 6 of them
that would give me $360 which would be enough for the gun plus license.
ffl, shipping fees for the gun. Anyway that's the story... normally I like to
horde my good wood, but anything for a good cause :)

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John Mayes
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Wow... sorry to hear that. Hope none of those were rare or sentimental pieces. (Guns are my other obnoxiously expensive hobby)

Why do you need a FFL for that? I thought that was only required for class C (and above) stuff?bpoling38424.7621527778

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Brock Poling
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Brock,

Cool another gun lover here (I have a few nice ones myself) One my
grandfather gave me two weeks before being robbed. it is a 1974
Browning Citori Shotgun. Very cool old gun, and shoots wonderful.

The FFL is needed for shipping of a firearm (I can get better deals over
the internet rather than local) from state to state. They just gotta ship it
to someone licensed ect.. but that is only like $10.

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Thanks guys I've only got a couple left to sell. I'm excited about giving
this gun to my grandpa.

John

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Good luck with getting the gun for your grandfather. We in the UK are not noted as a gun owning nation but it has been one of my hobbies since my early days at University and I now concentrate on Long Range Target Rifle shooting at ranges from 300 to 1000 yds. This is the British speciality and the UK are the current world champions (OK we've won it regularly for the last twenty years, sorry the US team gets beaten every time!) We don't have a lot of hunting over here, but I thoroughly applaud your efforts to get your grandad back on the hill and shooting again.



On the Bisley Ranges

Colin

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[QUOTE=Colin S] Good luck with getting the gun for your grandfather.
We in the UK are not noted as a gun owning nation but it has been one of
my hobbies since my early days at University and I now concentrate on
Long Range Target Rifle shooting at ranges from 300 to 1000 yds. This
is the British speciality and the UK are the current world champions (OK
we've won it regularly for the last twenty years, sorry the US team gets
beaten every time!) We don't have a lot of hunting over here, but I
thoroughly applaud your efforts to get your grandad back on the hill and
shooting again.





On the Bisley Ranges

Colin[/QUOTE]



Awesome dude. I have a Winchester 300 Mag that is supposed to get
some good use in the 1000 yard shoots. Of course I don't shoot it over a
couple hundred :)

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John Mayes
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John are you getting him one like yours with the bull barrel. I loved that rifle and the scope is great.

John, our target shooting at long range and in international competition is limited to the .308 win using a 155gn Sierra bullet. Grouping with iron sights is awesome (1/4 min of angle)out of the dedicated target rifles. The one I'm shooting is pretty much at the cutting edge custom built British Paramount action, US Krieger Barrel laminated maple/walnut stock. Cost about $6000!! you can get a lot of wood with that. Sorry luthiers this is shooting stuff!!

Colin

I also shoot benchrest using the 6mm PPC built in the USA using a Nesika Bay action and Krieger barrel. This was my 50th birthady present from my wife.

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[QUOTE=stan thomison] John are you getting him one like yours with the
bull barrel. I loved that rifle and the scope is great. [/QUOTE]

Yep. We are going to get him a 7mm Thompson Center Encore, with a
bull Barrel, Weaver Grand Slam scope, and a case.

Thanks to everyone who has helped out so far. I appreciate it.

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John Mayes
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[QUOTE=Colin S] John, our target shooting at long range and in
international competition is limited to the .308 win using a 155gn Sierra
bullet. Grouping with iron sights is awesome (1/4 min of angle)out of the
dedicated target rifles. The one I'm shooting is pretty much at the cutting
edge custom built British Paramount action, US Krieger Barrel laminated
maple/walnut stock. Cost about $6000!! you can get a lot of wood with
that. Sorry luthiers this is shooting stuff!!

Colin

I also shoot benchrest using the 6mm PPC built in the USA using a Nesika
Bay action and Krieger barrel. This was my 50th birthady present from my
wife.
[/QUOTE]

That is one cool gun!

My Thompson Center is Walnut Stocks with a Stainless steel barrel, I have
two barrels one is a .300 Win Mag bull barrel, (I normally shoot 180
grains out of it) and the other barrel is a 22-250 bull barrel. One has a
weaver grand slam 6x20 40mm scope and the other is a leupold 3x9 VXII
scope.

I'm sure I can't shoot as well as you can though! I just like to hunt so
normally my shots are under 150 yards (although last year took a deer at
250).

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John

Shooting here is almost exclusively target based, dear shooting is VERY expensive! I had the paintwork done on the stock with the British flag and bulldog on one side and the US flag and bald eagle on the other specially to celebrate the fact that it was made in the USA for a Brit, and the fact that a lot of my research work is US based.

I used to have a Thompson Contender in 22-250, very well made guns.

Give your grandad my best regards and I hope he enjoys his new gun.

ColinColin S38425.5520601852

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Hmmm... that is quite a paint job on that gun, very well executed. They probably had a motocycle/chopper guy do it, right??

All right, now I don't mean to go off topic here and discuss Mahogany... but $73 for one neck blank is what everbody is usually paying? I only make classicals and use cedar (stacked heel so maybe it needn't be quite the thickness), but I am putting about $7 of Spanish Cedar into every guitar including linings and back braces. I'm astounded that the suppliers are charging so much for mahogany neck blanks. They can surely be picked up locally at a much more reasonable price if you saw everything yourself?

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I sent a PM, but not sure it got to you as I got the error message.   Any neck blanks left? I could use a couple. thanks, Tom Harbin

[QUOTE=Tom Harbin] I sent a PM, but not sure it got to you as I got the
error message.   Any neck blanks left? I could use a couple. thanks,
Tom Harbin[/QUOTE]

I can't open it as I get an error too.... e-mail me at
john@mayesguitars.com

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John Mayes
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For a nice Mahogany one piece neck yep it is that expensive... you can
find them cheaper, but usually you get what you pay for. [i[Most high
end builders don't use stacked heels and scarfed pegheads...not because
it is not a great way to do it but because customers want it.


[QUOTE=jfrench] Hmmm... that is quite a paint job on that gun, very well
executed. They probably had a motocycle/chopper guy do it, right??

All right, now I don't mean to go off topic here and discuss Mahogany...
but $73 for one neck blank is what everbody is usually paying? I only
make classicals and use cedar (stacked heel so maybe it needn't be quite
the thickness), but I am putting about $7 of Spanish Cedar into every
guitar including linings and back braces. I'm astounded that the suppliers
are charging so much for mahogany neck blanks. They can surely be
picked up locally at a much more reasonable price if you saw everything
yourself?[/QUOTE]

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John Mayes
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Correct me if im wrong - but you should be able to get 2 one piece necks from a blank --

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Then I won't correct you because you are right lance! the part number is:
WNHMH1 at LMI. Go go check em out if anyone is interested. They have
great blanks.

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John Mayes
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John, I agree, its a good deal and a great product, I have a shelve full of them right now. I've never had a bad blank from LMI - least not yet

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[QUOTE=LanceK] John, I agree, its a good deal and a great product, I
have a shelve full of them right now. I've never had a bad blank from LMI
- least not yet [/QUOTE]

Yup I have about 30 of them.. well less now, but still quite a few...

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I'd say that getting two necks from one blank makes a pretty huge difference in the price.... I didn't know that. IIRC LMI wants over $20 for a spanish cedar blank (stacked heel), so I guess its not that far off.

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