birch Posted July 11, 2016 Report Share Posted July 11, 2016 I used to travel quite a bit for work between significant humidity changes and besides the bulk of hauling around a full size LP copy, it seemed like I was constantly adjusting my guitar every time I went somewhere new. I looked at plenty of travel guitars but most of them are short scale and would still be subject to humidity changes. So I'm experimenting with making a stable full scale but small as possible travel guitar using a Moses graphite neck and headless bridge bolted to a corian strip. The wings of the body will be some sort of wood (I haven't decided yet) with a swimming pool route and pick guard. Corian is seriously heavy so the body will be heavily carved and as thin as I can get away with. So thats the plan anyway... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birch Posted August 15, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2016 Finally made some progress on two headless travel guitars. Mahogany body channeled for the corian, swimming pool rout for lightening (corian is heavy) and all electronics mounted on a pickguard. 30" total length for the narrow body and 31" for the other one. It's possible that the corian strip is overkill but hopefully it will work like I'm hoping it will. Lots of routing and carving to go yet... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightroExpress Posted August 15, 2016 Report Share Posted August 15, 2016 This is an interesting one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birch Posted August 24, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2016 Little bit of progress on one of them... Getting ready to drill holes for the neck bolts so I can epoxy the mahogany to the corian and start shaping the body. It's currently 29 1/2" long end to end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birch Posted August 31, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 Got the mahogany and corian epoxied and the neck and bridge mounted. Next up is making a nut and figuring out just where to put the output jack... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birch Posted September 8, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2016 Started body contouring and tried a mounting location for the output jack. I'm not really happy with that but the body is so narrow it doesn't provide many options. I'll probably widen it next time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted September 8, 2016 Report Share Posted September 8, 2016 I like the contouring but like you, I'm not so sure about the jack location. Have you considered rear access? With a right angle plug? SR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birch Posted September 8, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2016 17 minutes ago, ScottR said: I like the contouring but like you, I'm not so sure about the jack location. Have you considered rear access? With a right angle plug? SR I did but I was concerned with interference with the bridge tuners. Now I'm thinking it's still a better option than the current one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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