Armaan

I'm currently thinking of a 1.75inch wide body, which I think is not too thin and not as thick as my les paul. I would have thought about making it a little thinner, but I want to be on the safe side and have extra room for the electronics and pickup cavities. Yes, I will be using a truss rod.

It really is addictive! I've just shared some images of my full sized drawings. I used images of EMG H3/H4 pickups and a Schaller 3D-6 bridge that I'm considering buying to try and make the guitar look realistic. I'm sourcing an ebony fretboard from a local exporter so I used an image of an ebony fretboard as well. I thought ebony would make sense and add some contrast, considering the guitar is predominantly walnut. Yes, it is a neck-through using five strips of maple and walnut - I thought this would be strong enough but let me know if you think otherwise? I was thinking about carbon fiber rods initially, but I thought I could get away with it with a laminated neck? I really like the carves from a design perspective. I tried to ensure that the carves will work as an arm rest and a belly cut. Though the way I have designed the guitar, I don't think I will get perfectly rounded edges.

I revised the drawings again - this time I used autocad. Took me a while to learn, but I seem to have got the hang of it to make at least a basic 2D drawing. I made a couple of different designs, with minor differences. A key point was to figure out if I should I was also deciding whether the guitar I the wings should be lighter with dark thin stripes in the neck through, or vice versa. My initial preference was the former, but once I saw pieces of walnut that were available I decided to go with walnut wings with thin maple stripes. I will post the pictures of the woods I selected separately. I printed the model I liked the most to scale, placed it on two of my guitars (epiphone les paul standard plustop pro + Harley Benton strat kit guitar) to visualize the size of the guitar. I felt that it was a bit short and made the body and the headstock a little longer. The guitar would be approx. 39.5 - 40inch, depending on the headstock angle (I'm thinking of a 15 degree angle, using a scarf joint). The one I decided to go with is the one in the separate image. Any suggestions on the shape or design?

I changed the designs - here is a revised drawing. The body shape is based on a guitar build that I saw from crimson guitars which I found really interesting - the link to the youtube video for that build is here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oq2DZ_pqGs

Hi - I play the guitar as a hobby and setting out to build my first electric guitar. I am a corporate lawyer and have no woodworking or mechanical skills. The only experience I have is building a kit guitar and painted it. This will be a challenging project and a lot of things will go wrong . It will probably get a expensive too, but I'm willing to tough it out and learn on the go. Here are a couple of initial drawings I made - they are rough and are based on approximate measurements. I will be refining it as I finalize the design and look up guitar plans for reference. I plan to make it a 6-string, twin humbucker style with neck-through construction. I am a complete novice at guitar building and any guidance would be very helpful. Cheers!