@johnnierox-boo I’m curious as to how the softwood body affects the sound of the guitar. Traditional teaching would suggest that it may not be that great but who cares? What are they like in real life...

@robin Yes I’ve had that problem before, I bought a much bigger piece of Perspex to solve the problem. I look forward to seeing how this project of yours turns out, I love reusing/repurposing wood (or...

@johnnierox-boo Thanks John, my router was falling into the cavity doing the larger bit, I'll need to make a wider router base plate soon.

@robin That is some nice routing, very neat.

I've moved on a bit today and got some body cavities routed. Attachment : 20200828_184708.jpg

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Turned it all into this left handed T-type Barncaster. Attachment : E6E07010-8930-46DE-BEFA-F75C966AF23F.jpeg Attachment : E9D09C73-CF50-4641-AC07-928131666072.jpeg Attachment : 005...

I used a length of pine and some pallet boards to make a body blank. Attachment : 6D18931F-F9FB-4E75-B489-A40EB1C46A5B.jpeg Attachment : B90D112A-914C-49BF-B3AA-03DBBE3033E7.jpeg Atta...

In the spirit of building my fisrt guitar from scrap wood, I'm still searching for a bit of suitable neck timber. In my past working days we used a wood called Keruing for truck body floors. Any thoug...

I'm not in a Brazilian forest, but at Knapdale forest a bit further up the scottish west coast You lucky man @robin (well, apart from the midges and the rain!) - that's one of my favourite parts of t...

Excellent! Nothing wrong with this idea, I’ve made electric guitar bodies out of old pallet wood, I’ll put some pictures up.

@tv1010101 I'm not in a Brazilian forest, but at Knapdale forest a bit further up the scottish west coast from Mark. The pine is the last piece of a bed frame, the rest of it is now shelves in my bath...

I love the idea of finding a lump of wood under a caravan What he didn't say was that the caravan had been parked for 50years in a Brazilian wood yard ... ?

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...

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