Abunai Guitar

okay yeah that makes sense, my dad has educated me somewhat as to what woods are common and whenever i see some wood i dont recognize he identifies it for me so i already ran it by him before about making a pine version of the design before hand and he said its about the same cost as alder so i think ill do this: 1. practice woodworking on scraps like you guys said 2. have my dad critique my work and help me 3. try to make the design out of alder(with no finish and old hardware or something) 4. evaluate results 5. Redesign guitar accordingly 6. build guitar according to (new) design

The guitar is made of alder like any other strat and the overall wood quality isnt that bad, just the hardware is just very low quality and the neck isnt very well constructed, but it just sits in my closet because the parts are so low-quality that i hate using it and it seems like a waste of money and i think if i want a new strat anyways it would be much smarter and cheaper to fix the lowquality guitar up than buy a new one.

Alright thank you guys so much, I already have Hiscock's book, school has gotten in the way of reading it but i have looked at a lot of it. My dad has been working with wood since he was a kid and we were planning on practicing with his tools a lot and having him critique us on our woodworking skill and whatnot. We are prepared to take as much time as possible and our original plan was to pretty much make two guitars just make one out of really cheap wood so we can practice and not waste money. I have definitely considered the fact that research doesnt make me a luthier at all and that no matter how much research i do, hands-on practice is a must. This is my last week of school and ill ask my dad to help me a lot and let me practice on the many scraps he has lying around. Neither of you answered my second question but if someone could help me because i know i can do that job perfectly fine i just need to know if like its worth the money to replace a crappy neck, bridge, and pickups in an effort to reduce the bad quality of the guitar.

Hi, this is my first post on this forum. So my first question is regarding a school project. I am doing this school project with my friend and we were gonna build an electric guitar, but the thing is neither of us have actually made a guitar completely from scratch before, ive done the whole assembly process and some common replacement and repair stuff but nothing like this. We were originally planning on doing something like a PRS with a carved top that would be really impressive but I REALLY want to just make a guitar we could actually play no matter where the design is from. This lead me to thinking we should make a Stratocaster or telecaster of some kind because they seem to be the popular Newbie project. Is there any way I can ensure that we will end up with a quality instrument or is it just foolish to think we can make anything quality on our first try without any major woodworking experience? I have already done a lot of research in the making of guitars and spent a lot of time skimming through tutorials so i can understand the building process. So if someone could put me(and my friend) in the right direction as far as choosing a guitar design, the specific method(if any different than usual) that newbies like us should use or anything like that. My second question is shorter. So a few years back my dad and I bought this really cheap strat kit from Grizzly Industrial. Most of it was pretty low quality but we just followed the instructions and it came out fine but its a pretty bad guitar in general and isnt even comparable to squier strats. Just recently I borrowed the american made vintage strat that my drummer's dad had and i loved it and all the tones i could get out of it. I was wondering if there was some way i could get that old homemade strat, replace the neck, pickups and maybe the bridge and get somewhere near the quality and sound of a real strat? So basically when it comes to bad guitars how much is the body responsible for the overall low quality and would replacing those parts be worth it given the cost, for the sound i would get in the end? thank you so much!