Sooooo I've been sick this week and was foced o stay in house... this made me start the new guitar I've been thinking of...
This is going to be a hollowbody guitar made of worldwide woods. The body’s core is made from American Swamp Ash, the body’s top will be made from Brazilian flamed Imbuia, the neck will be made from African Mahogany (with a lamination of bloodwood-maple bloodwood in the middle) and the fingerboard and bindings will be made from Bloodwood.
This was the beginning:
I then cut the rough shape:
And sanded it to exaxct shape using a robo sander:
Afterwards, I started to chaber the body core:
And finally, I cleaned the cavities up with the Router:
I routed of the electronics and made a cover out of bloodwood:
While cutting the body’s core I have had to divert from the swamp ash block’s middle line by 2 mm (due to a nasty hole I wanted to avoid). This was not an issue since I was exactly parallel to it. There was one problem since my top is a joint top the middle line of it would be clear and the deviation would have been clear to see on the side of the body.
So, I decided to “mask” the side’s line of gluing with a decoration (three pieces of binding: Bloodwood-maple-Bloodwood glue to each other) making sure that in will be perpendicular to the body …For that, I made a jig with a few pieces of wood and routed the small cavity:
I then placed the new decoration and glued it:
After two hours of drying time, I sanded the piece flush with the body, and cut the excess. There was an incident while cutting the excess of the new decoration the wood chipped out … Luckily, this is an area that with be routed out anyway (this is where the binding channel goes). I had filled it with wood dust and Loctite glue to create a smooth surface.
Today I've joined the top:
It now looks like this: