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Allright... maybe I'll check 'em out I'm not that far from the Hague I thought spruce was vurenhout? Pine was spar..at least that's what I thought, but whatever

hey Phil! Yes I'm from the netherlands... I'll look into those wood shops. I actually bought the wood at Gamma..it's meranti multiplex (I didn't find any solid hardwoods.. the only thing they had was pine (18 mm thick) and that wasn't even in stock.) If I were to go for a totally low-budget router, what would I probably have to spend? Well here's another pic of the guitar body as it is now I really like building this guitar (even though it'll probably sound like sh*t ), and for my next project I'll use hardwood, mommy

Hey Wow, lots of replies ! tnx The distance from the 12th fret to the bridge is the same as the distance from the 12th fret to the nut...I know it looks different, but the guitar is tilted in that picture. It measures up to a 25.5 inch scale length (same as the original guitar) We cut the control (with the jigsaw) from both sides because we couldn't cut say 8 mm in the lower board(no router), and if we only cut it out of the top layer, it would be to shallow to put the electronics in...that's basically the reason. The knot isn't actually a knot..it's a hole where the cables can fit through I know I would probably end up more satisfied with a piece of alder, but to work with alder i'd need a router ..at least that's what I thought And I wanted to try this with the tools we had in stock...just to see whether it could be pulled off, that's why I used the multi-plyboard ; it was only about 8 euro.. I know the pickup cavities are rough, but the plan is to glue another layer onto this body, to suspend the pickups. I actually did have sort of templates...but we're sawing these out with a jigsaw instead of with a router, and the saw's blade isn't very thin. These cavities are actually ment for single coils, and they actually tuck in quite nice indeed the bridge is actually a trem without the springs etc., but I didn't know you'd need the springs even if you don't plan to use it as a trem, but now that you mention it, it seems natural..i'll look into that... thanks for mentioning that For my next project I will use hardwood But , again, this is just a test. Hope that gives you the answers you wanted

Well, another update on my project; it's now the end of day 2. We've switched the plans from a semi-acoustic guitar to a solidbody(first project, trying to keep things as easy as possible ) but work's going on just fine. Here's a pic of how the body parts look now And , since I couldn't resist putting on the neck , here's a picture of the body with the neck on it I know they may look a bit sloppy, but I don't care well, that's all I have to say now, so go ahead, post some replies and make my day

Hey people! Well.. don't start laughing at me immediately because I'm going to build a guitar out of multi plyboard; it's just to try it out =D I don't know if this is the right forum to post it, but since it's more like a solid-body guitar than a hollow-body, I thought "Whatever!" . Ok down to the point. I'm creating this guitar out of multiplyboard (I'll call it multiplex ok?) It's going to be a Les Paul Junior style semi-acoustic ( ) My plan is this: Sandwich two layers of multiplex(18 mm thick) between 2 layers of triplex (3.6 mm) . I've created a website where you can see my daily progress. Semi-Acoustic guitar out of Multi-ply board Hope you like it..it's my first project ever BTW..half of the parts come from a strat-clone which i bought from my brother =D

Hi people Just wondering, I saw a tutorial for a lap-steel guitar this afternoon ; http://www.buildyourguitar.com/resources/lapsteel/ And since I don't know where from, and don't have the money to, get woods like Alder and maple, I was wondering if spruce is a good material to buy a simple lap steel out of. I found some spruce at the local hardware store, it has some knots in it..is that a bad thing? The size of the wood is 59 millimeters high, 156 mm wide and 1 meter in length..do you think it is a good idea to use this material? BTW..using teak as veneer strips to cover the control cavity..would that be a good idea? or teak for the whole body?