So I have been planning this for about a solid 20 years. I've been playing 29 years damn near 30... But until recently I never thought about the science and true geometry in a guitars body.
Yep you likely guessed it. I ate some really good lsd. I was playing a really tore back old acoustic one of my friends gave me. It is covered in cheetah print duct tape from Dollar tree. I dispise cheetah print haha.
Somewhere in the calamity of my brain taking a massive shit of endorphins and what have you. I peaked my ass of and saw my guitar explode into tiny fractal goddamners ( yes that is a thing... Or well anything..... Or everything... I don't know??! Rip Gary roach).
Anyways I tripped my ass off and played like shit. It was fun. But I have kept thinking about what I saw that night. I guess you could say I fell further down the rabbit hole of a musicians dilemma as I've come to call the life of a musician.
I have been looking online and trying to figure out some things. I've basically come to the realization. Some would maybe call the point when I pulled the thought out of my brain a flashback. Really I was just drunk on cheap whiskey and way too stoned to do much more than a less than mediocre ripple of a grateful dead Rip off.
It's one of only a few songs I can play on an acoustic. Growing up my father was some thing of a DJ and did some sound and light stuff that I barely remember. I do remember seeing the misifits when I was like 5. A few years later I watched Ace Ventura pet detective in a movie theatre and discovered cannibal corpse. I've been a metal head since.
So to the build. And the reason for this thread or whatever you call it
I've got some questions as I fully intend on building this over the next few weeks. As covid has essentially killed everything but the drug market. And I'll be honest. I smoke weed. Have done pretty much everything under the sun. I currently am about to be homeless again. And have not alot of resources. I have an obcession. And a good imagination.
1 is there a reason not to use redwood for the body? I live in northern california. And there's an abundance. But I am planning on actually playing the thing. I will probably use my own old recycled pickups from an old epiphone les Paul custom 2.
