Robert-Shetland

Thanks for the comment, I'm not a woodworker, actually a Marine Engineer and build Aluminium boats, so this was a particulary hard challenge to say the least, took around 130 hours. Not sure if i am about to bite off more than i can chew with this guitar plan though, hopefully not, Do you have any pictures of your guitar, really not sure what to go for now, think a thinner guitar may be the way forward, as i said in my reply to @curtisa i am now wondering if a thinner guitar with coil tapped humbuckers would suit me, i think it would if the coil splitting acts as a single coil, but never played one so not 100%

Thanks for the reply, much appreciated, I think that may be the way to go for a first time, not sure what shape to go for, i really prefer the Gibson neck feel as opposed to a strat or telecaster, but that may be the way to go, make a tele or strat shape body, and put a thicker gibson style neck on it. I play (or used to play) a lot of different genre's of music, Rock and Country mainly though, so used to have a Strat and a Les Paul, but i'm wondering with the new ish coil splitting ability with Humbuckers if i could merge 2 sounds into one, get a couple of 4 wire Alnico II humbuckers and split them for the country twang with push pull pots? I have never played a guitar with this fitted, dont suppose you have any experience with coil tapped humbuckers, and if I would get the result i'm looking for?

Hi All, I will start by giving a bit of a background to this, I inherited a small amount of money from my grandparents when they passed away, I have sat on it for 2 years wondering what to do with it and finally came up with an idea, so i bought a whole lot of Ash and made a Superking Sleigh Bed, i have attached a picture of it for reference of what the wood i have looks like, it is finished with Rubio Monocoat Oil Plus 2c in Walnut, the same finish i think would look great on an Ash Guitar I sold my Les Paul Standard last year and have no electric guitar and I also have quite a bit of wood left, So I have decided to use the rest of the wood for making a solid body electric guitar, The wood I have left is 200mm x 36mm thick, a 3m length of it, and another length which would do for making the neck, the two designs of guitars i really like are the Les Paul and PRS Custom 24, The 36mm thick wood alone would be a bit thin to make anything apart from maybe an SG, so the only real option I have is to glue up 2 sets of blanks and make the guitar in two halves, would this be ok? I know most of these type guitars are made with a thick back and a thin shaped top, but would it hurt anything to have both halves equal thickness? I look forward to your replies Thanks Robert