I love the idea of finding a lump of wood under a caravan (I mean, who hasn't?) and then turning it into a musical instrument, it's is just so amazing! I think we can all get so wrapped up in what may...

Its going to be a semi hollow body with a hardwood cap Great stuff - post plenty of progress pics. Apart from the fact that I love watching builds come together (and generally learn some useful tip...

@tv1010101 I did do the tap test, the pine sounded dead. The hardwood did have a ring, despite it being filthy, it had been a part of a boat's floor in a past life, so its well seasoned. Its going to ...

I love the idea of “here’s a bit of wood I found lying around, I’m going to make a guitar out of it”. Brilliant. I believe Leo Fender started out in much the same Hope you did the @markbailey tap t...

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Hi, After watching a few live you tube streams out of interest, ive found some pine and some unidentified hardwood under my caravan and started a practice build. I mentioned this in the comments on on...

(Photo uploads are now erroring, so linking instead) The next bit took a bit of precision cutting and sanding, and then the assistance of Mr Mallet. Now, lets trying routing out the pickup cavity...

Ahhh, look, *that's* where the pickup cavity was, originally. And, that's also where it really ought to be. Attachment : 20160317_123019.jpg And now, one nice clean - if rather large - hole i...

It was about a year later before I decided to try to fix the result of my inability to do basic maths. (Despite what my A-level certificates might say). My mis-rout had actually removed the cap more-...

Right then @markbailey @Russ, your breaths can now be unbaited ... Feeling rather chuffed with myself (did I mention that already) for rescuing this guitar, and also a little impatient to get on and g...

I'm intrigued. I wait with baited breath for the next installment. ?✌️???

I was feeling quite chuffed with myself at this point. Yes - For me that is often the point at which things go pear shaped - I've learned to recognise this as a red flag (usually 10 secs too late)......

Attachment : 20150314_162008.jpg Here you can see the carve blends in the extra thickness. I was feeling quite chuffed with myself at this point. This point was just before the next point. The ne...

Next stage, glue the cap to the body, and then start carving the cap ... Attachment : 20150308_142132.jpg You can see the difference in thickness in the pic above. The outer ledge is a contact...

... back out with the thicknessing jig, and a nice thick piece of birds eye maple. Attachment : 20150307_120654.jpg This is going to be thicknessed into a wedge shape ... Attachment : 20150...

Attachment : 20150303_150549.jpg That's about 6mm-8mm taken off the top, and a nice sharp edge created. Guess what happens next ...

Because the strings were going to be so high at the bridge point, the obvious first step in the fix was to make the body thinner, and therefore to make the strings even higher at the bridge. Attach...

Step1. Sort out the weight issue. Attachment : 20150303_130217.jpg Attachment : 20150303_131340.jpg Nothing too cunning about that. But a good place to start. Cunningness comes later...

I thought up a cunning plan. @markbailey will be along shortly to explain a much simpler way of fixing this issue, and then I'll kick myself. It actually took me about a year to fix ... because it spe...

This is a build rescue story, from a few years ago (so you can read, safe in the knowledge that it has a happy ending!). A few years ago, I was gifted a guitar. Actually, it was an unfinished project...