@rockpile99 it's not going to be a super thick body thankfully, so hopefully that will help with the weight. If it comes out at 12lbs I'll just have to suffer. At least it will look great on the wall ...

mmmm wood porn 🙂 That's going to look so good ... You worried about weight or just going to suffer for your art?

Wow !!! Are you building a solid flamed maple (1 piece) body? That’s going to be a bit special / unusual. Normally, a 1 piece cap is special enough! Not surprised that piece of wood was so expensiv...

@robin me and my dad did a custom guitar about 8 years ago. We bought a stewmac neck and modeled the guitar after an Ibanez that I had, and still have. So I have some experience with woodworking and g...

@94dodgedude Is this your first build, I'm a novice, just putting the finishing touches to my first build now. I've made lots of mistakes along the way. My advice would be to watch all the videos on M...

I ordered some templates from Guitar Building Templates out of Florida, left my wood in the attic for a couple of months to dry, and did a rough cut on a newly acquired small band saw. Here was the re...

Just searched for that Suhr and I found it, here's the guitar that is the inspiration for my build. Attachment : 20201121_071102.jpg $7500 brand new, but absolutely gorgeous. Hopefully I can ma...

So probably 6 or 7 years ago I saw a one piece flamed maple blue Suhr and thought that was one of the coolest looking guitars I've ever seen. It was $7500 so there was no way I could afford it. This ...

@deej Yup keep believing it. I’m so hooked right now. I think about it constantly.

It's pretty much a harmless hobby! Keep believing that @TV101 😉

@clinton Thanks! It is endless learning and The journey achieving a succesful end result in guitar building s the mist satisfying feeling. I've got to the stage now that I now have that mythical num...

Great story and awesome problem solving. It is endless learning and The journey achieving a succesful end result in guitar building s the mist satisfying feeling. I think that is why I enjoy it so muc...

Thank you everyone, I appreciate all your help.

@Seth - It's fine - many guitars are made exactly like this. You can leave it on but I think its better to trim off the excess so it blends in smoothly to the neck as you suggested. Looking good!

That’s helpful. Thanks Jonathan. Potentially appealing given I’m looking for an ‘easy’ way to get a traditional style finish.

@markbailey Yes will do that.

Its OK.You can apply the finish over the frets - file/sand it off later - a lot of factory guitars have been made this way. It is not ideal as it makes repair harder but not the end of the world 🙂 I t...

Aloha Peter

Welcome @Peebee and yes sign up for the course. You will be building in no rime for sure.

Hi Pete (et al), I would just like to put in a word for the acoustic guitar here as I feel it is being somewhat maligned as a possible home build project. I came to all this from completely the opposi...