I'm a long time lurker here, first time poster.
Here is my last project!
The posts are copied from another forum where I also posted this
Enjoy!
Let's start from the start: the idea is to have a nylon stringed guitar that I can play at stage volume with my band.
Got a body on ebay:
It's a harmony Bobcat body from 1964.
I really could have done the body myself from a plank of wood, but I thought it was just more fun to use an old and cool piece and work around it.
You can see here the front and back maple veneers. The body is poplar
Here is the neck I bought, thinking I'd use it on the project. It's the last time you'll see it, because I decided to build the neck myself to really have it the way I wanted.
Stripping the body
Body stripped, you can see the green poplar
After a lot of routing, here are the rough chambers in the body, they will be fine tuned later on.
And here is a little mod I had to do on my pickup system
It's a DTAR Wavelength dual source, which is a undersaddle transducer with a microphone and a 18v preamp. The mod was just to cut that pc board and replace it with shielded wires, because I wouldn't use a round soundhole like it was meant to be installed on.
