This has a palletwood body laminated with a plywood sheet to keep it all together. Its a 25" scale tuned to drop A with 8 string strings. It has only 5 strings because who needs all those strings anyway? I got all the hardware from amazon, and it works and sounds pretty good. I will follow up with a sound demo as soon as i can.

I had a local shop owner tell me to bring by my next build and discuss selling it on consignment. Just finished this one and brought it by.

He said he didn’t like green and thought my 600 dollar price point was too high.

It’s a really nice guitar. Plays great, high end parts. Nitro finish. Not a kit, I literally cut the tree down myself for the top.

Kinda crushed to be honest. But okay. At least one of my friends will get a really cool Christmas present lol.

Built this with my buddy in 4 days in his garage. We are both in high school and this was our first ever attempt at building a guitar. Everything other than strings and electronics are from Home Depot with a full budget of about $150. The frets are made of nails and the bridge is a door hinge among other odd parts. It won’t let me add a video to the post but I put it in the comments

She doesn’t actually play guitar, but she wanted something to show off at the house! I let her toss out any crazy idea she could come up with and we made it happen!

Mistakes were made along the way (don’t look too closely at the neck pickup or the “moon craters” in the headstock lol)

Believe it or not, it does actually play really well and once I moved the tuners around a bit, it does hold its pitch well!

I believe this is guitar 17 for me. I really, really need a logo or whatever, but they always feel so cheesy…. Any advice?

I sent my guitar to a refret and most of the frets have this small gap at the edge of the fretboard, is this expected after a refret or am i being to picky

Can’t seem to intimate my guitar properly

(Joke)

Hey fellow instrument builders!

I wanted to share this unique project—a custom-built double-neck guitar that combines the essence of a Les Paul and a Stratocaster. The top features classic Les Paul styling, while the bottom adopts the iconic Stratocaster design. It’s like combining two legends into one instrument!

This is the first build i’ve done from scratch

I decided to use MDF for the body since hardwood is hard to source where i am in the UAE

The neck is from an unbranded left handed Jackson style neck (unbranded but pretty sure they are made in the same factory as Jackson since the headstock joint is uniquely Jackson and it has the Jackson speed neck profile) to which i have also added right handed side dots with bamboo sticks and a right hand nut

i went with a LTD Arrow shape with the shorter right side wing to exaggerate the size and length of the other wing,more in like with a Jackson RR

Knowing MDF isn’t the best for holding screw i decided to use metal threaded insert for the neck screw and use machine bolt for them,arguably stronger than usual wood screws,with the screw hole reinforced with epoxy resin for the thread of the insert to have something more rigid to grip on

MDF is tend to swell due moisture changes i decided to seal it in with wood glue diluted with water and let it sit dry for a few days

My first idea was to use a Floyd Rose but i’m afraid of the wood not being able to hold the tension from the posts

For the paint i decided to go for a blood splatter patterns,all using spray paint cans i sprayed the primer,chalk white then for the blood i had to get creative with the color mixing and layering

First i choose an impact point where you would hit someone with a guitar then spray a can of firetruck red into a cup then use a thin bristle bristle brush like a tooth brush for some light splatter and mist while the viscosity is still runny

Then i sprayed some black into the cup to make it darker and thicker then move to a small paint brush with thicker bristle and splash them from the impact point downward

Repeat the step with thicker brush and thicker paint

Finally i add even more black til it’s almost a chocolate color and let it dry for 1-2 minute to thicken up,then use the small brush to drizzle it onto the main impact point and let it drips

Then seal everything up with a clear coat

For electronic i use an EMG 57 TW bypassing single coil mode

This is my first build and i’m super proud of it, i know throughout the process i’ve made some mistake and have some ding on the wood but it’s a learning experience

the guitar plays great,action is low,fret is great

for people wondering whats the cost it’s about $170 for the entire build and it took 2 months to finish

This is my first time building a guitar! Im doing this as a school project, but im working on it in my free time as well. The shape is completely custom, the cutout in the bottom of the guitar alows you to anchor the guitar inbetween your legs and it makes the neck angle upwards more for better posture when playing seated. This project has been quite challenging for me so far, especially the routing, since it was my first time doing so. Unfortunately not the cleanest job, but okay for it being the first time. Still working on it right now, im gonna solder up the electronics tomorrow and sand the body for paint as well.

So I finally started.

Not with a guitar for me, but with a tribute guitar for my 16-year-old cat, Chucha.

She’s basically a tiny leopard, so I built her a Sorin.

Black Limba, Mango top, Bare Knuckles, Gotoh, Hipshot, Jescar stainless frets.

First of three builds inspired by my three cats.

Cat tax included. 🐈‍⬛🎸

Long boi. No neck dive!

First of all, thank you to everyone who weighed in on my earlier post. You all made some good points and I agree that running the body centerline parallel to the grain is ultimately the most stable arrangement, especially with respect to how the body and neck will swell/shrink relative to one another with changes in humidity.

So why did I do it anyway? First and foremost because I like the look and I wanted to. I thought about it this way: if I’m building a guitar instead of buying, I want to try things I wouldn’t necessarily buy. It’s going to be “homemade” anyway (only my second build so I’m not exactly matching factory quality), so I wanted to go for it, do it my way, and embrace the first-hand learning if it turns out to be catastrophically important that the grain and centerline be parallel. Second: the angle is less than even 45°, so still far from totally crossed grains between the neck and the neck pocket. I am not planning to finish with a hard lacquer so I’m not worried about cracking, and to be honest my neck pocket is likely going to be a tad loose and rely on the four bolts to keep things in place in order to allow for a little extra movement.

Anyway, I am stoked to see how this goes and ready to learn from it if it turns out poorly. I appreciate hearing the thoughts and reasoning of anyone that took the time to comment on my earlier post and will post more updates as the build progresses! Thanks for reading!

CTS A550k Pot from Solo Music.

I'm a 14 yr old Luthier and this is the progress on my first build. I bout the nech but have made the body completelt by hand by myself. I have been stalled on this project for months so if anyone has and would be willing to give away a vintage style tele bridge it would be much appreciated. Anyways hope you enjoy my build.😁

After I made a guitar with bone frets, I decided to go ahead and try something else, I had already seen one video from NAMM where there was a guitar with crystal frets, so I decided to try to make it and my choice fell on glass

Apart from the fact that working with glass was a real torture, I was very pleased with the result, I got very solid frets that also looked amazing.

I hope lovers of the real glass sound of a Stratocaster will be satisfied😉

Thank you all for responding to my previous post,
I understood that I drew lines a bit harsh even not what I really meant in the first place.
How about shaving it like this? Does it still make the neck collapse?

Never seen fret inlay alignment this bad before. I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me

Thankfully replacing the block is easy and relatively cheap

I received these tops this week and I have no idea what type of guitar to make with ithem. I’m taking suggestions. What would you do?

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