JazzFusionGuy

Well, I am now considering after sanding smooth & clean this plywood body, to try some veneer work as described in the tutorial section. I just grabbed 5.52 sq ft of 1/42 Sapele Pommele exotic wood for $24 off eBay. This was scraps from Lear jet and luxury yacht detailing and interior jobs. Here's what it will look like bookmatched. Sheets are more than enough to do the axe. Tips? Opinions?? Yeah, I know, "sow's ear <-> silk purse" but this is merely a practice session for me and will be a fun learn whatever happens.

. . . So, you sell these homemade Strat bodies??? Pretty much exactly what I thought. I needed a diversion from the p90 guitar i've been building for the day so I figured ***, why not. Then I saw it was plywood and just started laughing my ass off. Oh shinola came to my mind when I saw this B. Strat-clone was ply as well dont know if I'll be selling "strat" (dont sue me fender) bodies. Probably not ... well maybe. A passage of $$ twixt guitar fans for shaped wood resembling another shaped wood product won't get ya sued. But if ya ever advertised Fender approved/licensed, etc etc and used their name to sell product then yer liable to get a nasty letter. Anyways, keep me in mind and zap me a pic or three of aforementioned Findurish product made in yer shop. You may have yerself a buyer. back to research scientist stuff . . .

Being a practice project with a near POS axe body -- I thot what the heck, it's fun to see what evil lurks beneath the shiny exterior -- and perhaps redeem the foul truth into a thing of odd beauty. And then sell it on eBay for 3 or 4X what I had in it. So, you sell these homemade Strat bodies???

Yeah, kinda sucks to see what I expected but i like your burst idea! We'll see what I come up with soon enuff.

Hello folks, I am not new to axes but quite new to refinishing. I thought I share my very first project's progress after getting enough great tips from this website to feel ready. Any tips welcome as I go along . . . I bought an axe to practice on first. It was only $26 off eBay. The axe is an older Behringer Stat clone with a great neck but mediocre electronics and poor paint job and finish. I like natural finishes so I thought I'd try that first. Went to Lowe's and bought a $40 heat gun kit. Worked great. The pics below tell the whole story so far. My time doing just the back and sides took ~ 4 hours. I will post again when I do more. Until then . . . Ohh, my achin' back leanin' over that long . . .