jeremyp

I've got all my controls drilled for and fitted. then i started cutting out the hole for the tremolo. didnt have enough time in my friend's shop to finish that so i started carving the sides back home. It's lookin pretty awesome. It actually about 42mm thick but i need to sand the back a bunch before i carve it so i'll get closer to my target 40. hopefully i can get some done tonight and finish routing by the weekend.

taken down to 9/8 inches thick and routed for wires and preamp

1/8 oak control cavity covers

fit em in. not perfect but filler will make it look a little nicer haha

tomorrow i'm going to go get some oak for the top.

here's where i'm at. Tomorrow i'm going to get it taken down to about 27.3mm from 38.1mm. i think i'm going to do a 1/2inch top out of oak. i'm chambering the body so i'll have some 1/4 inch recessions about the chambers in the lower part. Is it going to be heavy? shouldnt be.

1)the amount of oak is minimal

2)the other part of the body is really light already plus it's getting chambered

3) and this should keep it from neck diving.

4) Brian May's Red Special used oak

5) the 1/2 oak should be about right to get all the way to the edge for the beveling that happens

6)oak is tough stuff

haha thanks mender. I only have the bridge for it so i'm going to have to find parts to complete the tremolo setup. Any suggestions of where to look for some 1/4 mahogany to top my guitar?

yeah, i honestly have no clue. its definitely something import as was decided in another thread.

haha ok. well it's going on a cheap guitar so i'm not concerned.

it actually appears to be felt like. the spacing is 52mm i believe from the center of saddle 1 to 6

as i said, this is kind of a practice run for making a guitar. AND I don't believe there's a good cheap supply of non-native woods at those prices near me. BUT i WILL keep this in mind for my next build lol.

the block is 35mm. If i need to, i can cut the block down a bit. I was told it is from a marshall guitar? I figure with the bridge FLAT on the body i'll have 5mm gap. IF the bridge is slightly elevated i'll gain a couple mm of space. I'll probably be using non standard springs i can find at a hardware store so i can use multiple skinny springs.

the core is all glued together. gonna let it set and then start cutting tomorrow.

i need 14inches wide so i am adding strips along the side to get from 11 and 1/4 to 14 inches. i'll glue this stuff up tomorrow, its kinda cold so i don't want any issues with the wood shrinking and messing up. after this i'm going to get it planed then start cutting it out.

Picked up about 8 dollars of wood at homedepot and am about start making a sg body to replace the cheap plywood les paul clone body. This is more of an introduction to building a guitar from scratch so i'm looking to spend as little as possible. The wood? 'whitewood', I'm under the impression it is spruce. I'm going to have a center of this whitewood with a 1/4 inch top and bottom of something else, maybe birch?. My sg will use a strat style tremolo so I'm aiming at around 40mm thick. I'm going to have the once bolt on neck glued in after i go through and re-fret it. I'm wanting it to be light so I am planning on chambering the body. Nothing special with the pickups, just the random two humbuckers that came with the old lp.

haha i was just saying its similar to the style of the american strat tremolo(at least thats what i gathered from my research) but yeah, def not american made.

I found an old american strat style tremolo bridge laying around my house and I'm curious to know what kind it is. Its about a 2 1/4 string spacing 2 3/4 between the center of the posts and about 1 3/4 deep block.

sorry bout the bad pics but i think you get the idea.

thanks tim, i'm going to try and get me a copy of the book.