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.
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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.Originally Posted by pablopepper
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