raw stock for making bodies

[Roadkill]

anyone know where you can buy basswood, adler and mahogany 8/4 istock in 6 inch and wider so I can start CNCing my own bodies Google hasnt been very helpful. Thanks Ed

[FrankenWashie]

Depends on where you are Ed.

I buy from time to time from a couple of local timber merchants in Sydney, Anagote timbers in Marrickville and Crescent Timber and hardware in Annandale. Be aware that Anagote will sell you cut lengths, but Crescent will sell only by the complete stick (sometimes up to 3M lineal). This is of no use to you if you aren't in Sydney though.

I've also had some good luck using eBay vendors, curlypete1 and max_sawdust, but that is mainly for neck blanks and tops.

If you can put up with the shipping then Stewmac can help with body blanks, but not in the materials you've specified from memory.

[Sonic Mountain]

I've been ogling these sites, but haven't bought anything from them as yet.

https://guitartimbers.com/timbers/

http://www.australiantonewoods.com

I also buy a bit of stuff from these guys, but no timber as yet.

http://luthierssupplies.com.au/index.php?cPath=133

[pablopepper]

Don't limit yourself to traditional guitar woods. Any hardwood is totally fine for making guitar bodies. If you're testing out CNC files, get $10 worth of pine, glue it up into a blank and run the file on that rather than stuffing up something you've gone and spent over $100 on. Then google local timber suppliers and check their stock, I've found slabs of camphor big enough to make two bodies for less than $30.

[Simon Barden]

Any hardwood is totally fine for making guitar bodies.

Within reason. Balsa is a hardwood, but really wouldn't be robust enough to make a guitar body on its own (though it has been used as the core in a sandwich of woods and/or plastics) to help produce a very light guitar. The Gibson LP Studio Lite for instance.