Hi All,
Lotta great stuff on this board/site, I have barely scratched the surface.
I am reviving my interest in building guitars and am still in the research phase.
I did build one guitar body about 10 or so years ago while attending art school with access to a decent shop. It was pretty cool one piece mahogany sg shaped sorta- made for an old fender mailbu neck I bought off a junked bolt on acoustic (I will try to get pics some day.) I have also worked at Steinberger (nashville) but in the mold room ...which is kinda distant from traditional guitar making. Tobias basses shared the same facility so I did get a glipse of their process.
anyway I am still a total noob.
My first project will be to make a body for a steinbergeresque gs (headstock model) neck I have. It needs a fret leveling and maybe a different nut- but I will worry about that later. I want to make a rrV shaped body for it I think. I had a little balance left on my paypal account so I scored this yesterday wood.
I am thinking about a mahogany back and that top. Some kinda good tremelo unit...preferrably one with the ability to play as a fixed bridge or trem, any suggestions?
Could someone point me to a good tutorial on glueing up a body this way(bookmatched top+back)? Will I need a joiner/planer to get everything perfect?
thanks... I can't wait to get started.