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WOW

ah, there we go, thanks.

so metal it hurts

that link doesn't take me anywhere. I tried searching google, what is the correct term? i didn't find much

hey all, I'm looking for a full-sized layout of an SG so I don't have to go trace one. I'm not going to replicate exactly, as I plan on making the body slightly larger and a bit of a different shape, but i wanted to get myself in the ball park. I have a printer here that can print full size. are there any sites that have downloadable plans? thanks! and sorry for the noob question.

damn. I just started my first one today and this is inspiring. gonna have to step it up. thanks!

dont get me wrong, I love mahogany, ebony, some maples, bubinga, etc. I have a neck-sized piece of bubinga I'm saving for later. I just don't want to use all that wood on the first go.

yeah, not the whole thing. just a strip or two in a laminate neck.

that's what i figured. i also have some oak. maybe I'll make a laminate neck out of some combo of 2 or 3 of those.

oh, i know. I don't think i've ever played a poplar guitar myself, but i have heard that it makes for nice sounding guitars. I just mean, coming from a fine furniture background, poplar is basically scrap wood that you use for the cheap or unseen parts. like hidden structural stuff where you need to save cost and no one will ever see it. mostly due to its softness and green color and lack of interesting grain. I have huge piles of poplar around my shop, and could make several poplar guitars right now without spending a penny other than for hardware. I'm sure if I paint it a solid color it will be fine. I just don't want to go spend several hundred dollars on wood for my first guitar when i have plenty of poplar sitting around. I also have a bit of walnut and a small amount of mahogany, so maybe I'll throw a cap on the body. in the shop this morning, going to plane and glue up the body, and try and find something I can use for the neck. guessing poplar isn't so good for necks?

been going over the book this weekend. very helpful, thanks for the Title, guys. going to start on a first guitar tomorrow, a test build, if you will. Have tons of poplar in the shop, so I'm going to go with that and do one solid run through before I spring for tonewoods. will be starting the second guitar shortly afterwards.

Hey there, thanks! well, I didn't mean to say 20, if i did. more like a little over 10 on the pro woodworking. but yeah, making furniture and building guitars have some very different "angles", to be sure. as far as the CNC goes, i definitely think I'll build the first one or two completely by hand, just to familiarize myself with it, and then integrate the CNC afterwards. I definitely plan on using CNC to layout the fret slots for accuracy. I do use CAD to design and do layouts, most of the time. I'm pretty excited to get into that book and hopefully get an understanding of neck angles and the like. as far as "handtools or machinist", I'd say for most of my time as a woodworker, i've always been a jigs and machines kind of guy, but lately, I've been getting more into hand tool methods. I've done a lot of really complex projects over the years where I designed everything so that it could be cut on a CNC and put together with minimal assembly work. also Lots of veneering and routering. lots of table saw and router jigs. but the last year or so, I've done a lot more hand made solid wood furniture. hand cut joinery, hand planing and scrapers instead of orbital sanders, etc. I'm still interested in both, and will try both methods. as far as what I play, I have an early 70's SG. I've had many many others over the years, including baritones and 7-strings, but I usually end up back at SG's or Flying V's, even though I like longer scale guitars. I have an order in for a custom Brian Monty semi-hollow at the moment. as far as what I want to build, the guitar I really want to make for myself is a 26.5 scale modified SG body (larger than the standard body, possibly slightly more assymetrical, but not like a Viper) with direct mounted pups, no pickguard, most likely one humbucker in the bridge position, mahogany set neck or neckthrough with a darker wood cap on the body. a buddy really wants a slightly modified Brian May style. thanks for the welcome, suggestions are much appreciated.

ordered, thanks.

Hello all, I'm a professional furniture maker, have been for about 10 years. been playing for 20. woke up the other day and did a facepalm at the fact that i've never thought to build my own. I've been looking around this site for a couple weeks, but am having a hard time finding a comprehensive basic guide. Seems like a lot of the more basic tutorials are down/not hosted anymore on their respective sites. I'm sure this info is on here somewhere, but I'm having a hard time finding it. What is a good book to get a full understanding of building a guitar from scratch? I have a CNC in my shop and will probably use that to cut bodies, cavities, fret slots, etc., But I would like to get a good, cover-to-cover understanding of building a guitar from start to finish before I start. I suppose my main questions at this point are determining neck angle and fret, bridge, and pickup placement. as well as tonal characteristics of woods beyond mahogany and maple. Thanks, and sorry for the noob question. Cheers.