Slumgigz

So I've got a question on the finishing...such as dyes, bursts, etc... I messed up on my shaping of the body and the maple/walnut ended up on the top instead of the bottom. Are there any suggestions on what I should do regarding colors, brands etc...

Holy mother of pearl! My planer is by far my loudest machine, I bet it's past the db limit human ears can handle. And that's just turning it on.

Yeah I should've said Hand Planer. I do have a mechanical thickness planer that I run my wood through first, it hasn't torn anything out yet, but it will put some nasty Sniping on the wood if I don't put pieces in front and behind the wood I'm using on the build. It's a DeWalt DW734 12 1/2 Thickness Planer.

I was going between my No. 610 Low Angle Jack Rabbet and my 60 1/2 Low Angle Adjustable Block planers at the time. Since I would start the hand planing process at night after work and after my lady was asleep I was already exhausted but wanted to get it done. I finally decided to check the blades and noticed multiple rolls on each. So now I leave my whetstone's out and ready when I need to plane anything. But I would like to get a No. 7 or 8 Jointer soon, I bet that will make the process much easier in the future

They are definitely fun to work with. And thank you. That Wenge top piece turned out to be a hassle because it would tear out while planing. But I think I figured it out. Aside from that, apparently I'm sensitive to it. So it definitely takes me the most time to work with.

STUNNING!!!

That's incredibly similar to what a mechanical engineer who is also a woodworker during his free time told me about the Zebrawood, except for the planing part...I gave him that piece because he's a cool dude and taught me a few things. Thank you Scott. It took me a while to choose the correct woods for this build due to the fact that I plan on this guitar being my go to in the jam room. Requiring substantial knuckle knocking on the wood with recordings to actually decide...At the moment I just need everything resonant and flush. All that Artsy beautifulness that you and everyone else on this site are way to savvy at.

And here are the pieces. I'm currently flattening the Wenge Top, after that onto shaping the body, neck, fretboard, and headstock. Then to routing the pockets, radiusing, fretting, gluing then electronics.

Finally figured out a way to split the curly/walnut, due to lack of big enough machinery for resawing I cut the piece down the middle and again to make two pieces. However, the bandsaw didn't cooperate (lots of burning). So I used my Ryoba, I did good until the end, which is quite apparent in the pictures. But it cleaned up nice and I actually like that little mess up, it goes well with the look I'm shooting for.

When in a rut never rush...My pops and Gramps drilled that into after I got stuck on something... Soooo... I starting creating the back to the top of the library/bookshelf I told the wife I would make for her. Furthering my squaring and jointing experience. Also, does anyone know what these gashes in the zebra wood might be. I don't recall them when I first bought it. Now they go entirely through this piece.

Came to a standstill on the curly/walnut body being too heavy and thick.

Neck and fretboard wood

Was finally able to focus on my luthier skills...or lack thereof for the past four weeks and decided to use the poplar and red oak "Ms. furniture" wood on actual furniture throughout the house, then went directly to the exotics.

So I took my wife to the local hardwood seller (2hr drive), I got some wood for the guitar builds and she got some for the library. The pic doesn't do it any justice so in order to help distinguish the size of each piece the Curly Maple is 6'x8"x2". There's a 4'x6"x2" Bubinga and a 2'x6"x2" Cocobolo behind the leopardwood.

Well that's not good, it won't let me upload anymore photos. Now my build progress only looks like a pile of wood.