Goal - just a mess around guitar built from offcuts laying around my workshop.
Specs:
Body 5 piece lamination:
USA Maple
Fiji Mahogany
Alder
Quilt maple 2 piece top
Neck 7 piece lamination:
Tasmanian Blackwood
Ebony
Indian Rosewood
Queensland Maple
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I was looking at some body offcuts wondering what the hell I could do with them and decided if it was a solid color guitar then it doesnt matter what color the timber lams sre, so I cut all the ends from the waste of some previous made bodies and jointed them:
Same for the neck blank. The ebony is a finger board I left out in the cold after I'd thinned it to 5mm and it warped, the Rosewood was another screwed up board. Now I have a drum sander I was able to salvage them both. Add in a strip of QLD maple and frame it in Tasmanian Blackwood!
This is the body that was discussed in the "cutting bodies with router thread"
I decided to add a quilt top to it so I ran the body through the thicknesser to cut it back enough to chuck on the quilt. This is a top I bought off ebay several years ago, was listed as a bookmatched 5A quilt. When it arrived it was more like 2A and it didnt resemble the sellers pic in any way. It's been stored for several years so I figured I'd throw it on this scraps build.
Curly Maple fingerboard (has a slight defect which I centered at the first fret dot) Because it had this defect I considered it a scrap board
Curly Maple Binding from stew mac - I had 2 pieces that just didnt match other pieces so I havent used them. I put the better of the two on top where it's visable and the lesser of the two underneath where it wont be seen
I tried this "pinning the board" concept which a few guys here are doing. I went to my other shed and got the smallest nails I could find that looked like they'd hold place, I drilled a couple guide holes making sure to not go deep enough it'd effect my profile carve. I tapped them through with a hammer making sure not to split the maple board:
I then drilled some matching holes in my clamping caul, so after I clamped it, before the glue had set I pulled the nails out with pointy nose pliers. It held very well, no movement, was lined up to where my grey lead marks were, so I'm very happy with this method:
I saw on a previous GOTM submission someone had added laminations the the heel area of their build to make up for the blank being too small - I liked the look of this and thought I wanted to try something similar, so I added some QLD maple and Indian Rosewood to the heel to give that "capped" look when the neck is carved:
The headstock is actually a 2 piece horizontal lamination, it's two pieces of quilt offcut from other bodies but I've thicknessed them the same depth and glued them together to make a headstock as I didnt want to cut up a good piece of quilt for this guitar and these pieces were just scrap laying around:
I'm yet to decide on hardware. It'll be black but I'm not sure Kahler or Floyd.
I'm yet to decide on the body carve. I liked the look of Crows Jackson Soloist copy but I'm not decided yet.
I'm yet to choose a color. It'll most likely end out being candy black or candy blue with a solid black rear and matching headstock.