Electric Guitar
This was my first attempt at an electric guitar from scratch and I am very pleased. It was also an experiment using the quartersawn Pine as the top instead of a traditional hardwood, yet it sounds very crisp just like a hardwood top. As a nineteen-year-old, this project got me to be proficient in everything from routing, inlaying, finishing, and everything in between.
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If this guitar sounds as good as it looks, you have a real winner. Very nicely done. Thanks for posting the pictures.
Awesome Guitar, Your design is crisp and clean. Did you make every part excluding hardware from scratch? How about the fret board, did you make that too? I plan on building an electric guitar too so that's why I ask.
Great work man.
Beautiful piece of work. You should be very proud. Regards, ets.
Thank you. Yes, everything was made from scratch (except for the binding and purfling as those are far too small to make yourself). I hand sawed the fret slots using a the Stewart-Macdonald miter saw designed for fretboards that a close friend let me borrow. It truly is an adventure and I urge you to go through with it as it includes so many processes. Good luck and I look forward to seeing your guitar in the future!
Very nice. Did you use a plan, if you did where did you get it.
It was not from a plan. I spent about a year and a half researching different techniques of making an electric and afterward I spent about a full month doing full scale drawings in frontal view and profile for template making until I was completely satisfied with the design. Thanks for checking it out!
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