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Really nice but you should put a real bridge on it. One that doesnt want to lift off the body from the string tension. A wrap around bridge has got to be the worst idea for a bridge ever dreamed up.The tuners are taking every bit of the strings tension . Having no down force created by the strings break angle over the bridge kills your sustain

If you want to make them lighter the next time . Cut a top and bottom and router them out leaving a strip bridge width down the middle to where the bridge connects.Contrary to what you may have heard.Body weight and mass eats sustain

Very nice man

If you want guitars with superior tone and sustain not to mention shed about 4 lbs. then chamber the hell out of them.Just leave a strip about bridge width down the middle. You need to make a top and bottom so that you can router out chambers but once you do I bet you never make another one solid. You make alot of guitars so you dont have anything to lose by trying. You'll like the results.What you're making now looks like they weigh 10 to 12 pounds when you could be making them at 5 pounds. Use a string through bridge and the sustain is fantastic.

Hey man you've got bigger balls than Buck Rogers. Alot of creativity shown. Most people seem to be happy with a clone. Good job.

Man dont worry about it. Push some glue into the cracks then sand it while the glue is good and wet still to fill them. Be extra careful to get any glue off the face of the wood before you start your finishing or it will show big time Glue is so strong that if you put your neck under enough tension to snap the wood would give way before the glue. The neck should be fine just give it a little more attention next time

Its because large pieces of clear wood are getting harder and harder to come by and cost in general.

Have you ever built a guitar? Making a good lap steel with more style than a 2"x4" for the body isnt easy. The lap steels always give me more trouble than a regular solid body electric. Dont know why but they do.

Bad Idea unless you split it down the middle so as to get a top and bottom. You're not going to get an unbalanced guitar.Thats nonsense.How heavy is a guitar neck with tuners? If anything it will balance it.I dont really think you have a snowballs chance in hell to get it right but if you did you would gain better tone,more sustain and of course less weight. Dont do it. If you're going to go through all the trouble of splitting it just make a new body instead. I hope you're patient and creative .