Mmmmm....WOOD!

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Originally Posted by Rabbit

At the end of the day , it's *your* instrument, and it can be whatever the **** shape you want! If you *realy* want a strat, go for it. If you want to turn it into a space ship, that's kewl too. If you really wanna give it the dirty hillbilly swamp treatment, just sand it and leave it as the block it is :rolleyes:.

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Oooh Spaceship guitar!


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Originally Posted by FrankenWashie

Oooh Spaceship guitar!

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Yeh, well.. whilst looking for relevant posts for my first build, I got side tracked and fell down the rabbit hole that was "Pinball Wizard". I'm sure the depths of madness have yet to be plumbed :rolleyes: .

If you can slice the pieces into half inch slabs you could make a wonderful book matched semi solid thinline swamp telecaster, possibly even using the waste from the shape cut to build the sides and get the body depth The centre solid section and neck mount could be another unseen hardwood. Sorry just getting a bit carried away there, do love a tele!

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Originally Posted by Rabbit

Butbut......<whine> then we can't talk about 6oz glass vs 4oz glass, or discuss the finer points of polyester vs epoxy..... :p

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There are no finer points of polyester...

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Originally Posted by impala59

If you can slice the pieces into half inch slabs you could make a wonderful book matched semi solid thinline swamp telecaster, possibly even using the waste from the shape cut to build the sides and get the body depth The centre solid section and neck mount could be another unseen hardwood. Sorry just getting a bit carried away there, do love a tele!

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It’s an option, though I might try to pare it down a little thinner, say 1/4” slice with the gnarly grain and do an edge bind. I am really only just squeaking in on the edges with this, so I may do a filler strip in the middle, NZ beech or Maple, I’ve some thin walnut stock as well that would look great.
That would leave me maybe 5/8 inch of the unfissured figured part to do a carved top something something.

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Originally Posted by FrankenWashie

It’s an option, though I might try to pare it down a little thinner, say 1/4” slice with the gnarly grain and do an edge bind. I am really only just squeaking in on the edges with this, so I may do a filler strip in the middle, NZ beech or Maple, I’ve some thin walnut stock as well that would look great.
That would leave me maybe 5/8 inch of the unfissured figured part to do a carved top something something.

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You could always make it a neck through :)

Build what makes you happy. Guitar, shef, picture frame, whatever; as long as you like it.

But probably not another 10' tall humanoid constructed from multiple body parts (sorry, Egor).

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Originally Posted by Simon Barden

But probably not another 10' tall humanoid constructed from multiple body parts (sorry, Egor).

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Cant do 10’ creature anyway. Lab ceiling height will only allow for 7’, 8’ if it hunches over. Could look at some sort of hinge or folding mechanism in the middle I suppose.

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Originally Posted by FrankenWashie

The thread heading is Mmmm WOOD. I feel a strip canoe is admissible, just don’t drift of into talk of fibreglass and resins M’kay!?

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Many (many) years ago I was involved in rescue boats and helo's. One of the boats I crewed was of timber construction. Every other boat was fibreglass. The sign below hung in the shed and I think it applies equally to guitars: