I recently finished my first build with a maple/purpleheart iceman design and I am now planning my second build. I have sketched up a few pictures of some preliminary ideas, but I was looking for a few suggestions. I decided that I wanted to do some sort of chambered/semi-hollow body design and include a pattern on the guitar top, similar to an F-hole, but with a different design. In my sketch, the design to replace the F-hole is a series of circles.
Here are the pictures of my sketches:
I am wanting to build a through neck, with some very colorful woods laminated together. The back side will be different contrasting colored woods, with the top being something with a very nice figure, maybe birdseye or flame maple. Does anyone see problems with my design? Or criticisms?...constructive or not haha.
Being fairly inexperienced with guitar building, I have a question as to how the shape of the hollowed out portion of the guitar will effect the sound. I am planning on chambering and hollowing out both sides of the guitar, not just the side with the hole designs.
Any thoughts/suggestions?