-= Building a Guitar from Scratch with Absolutely No Woodworking Experience =-

As i always gotta push myself or smthg or whyever i wanted to gift myself smthg special for my birthday this year i ordered some fine woodworking tools, luthiers stuff and nice tonewood to build a guitar.

 

 

I have no experience in woodworking, never used any of the tools i ordered before, all i have is watched a few yt vids, so it might be fun to watch me struggle and see how far that will go, maybe tell me what i should have done better or should do.

I´ll start by what has happend so far and update regularly until i burn or hold the finished thing.

Have fun!

 

I´ll put my planned specs here on the road to remind me when i´m lost...

6-string, 22frets

Neck (Bar Ash)
- glued
- slim shape
- Headstock 3+3, custom shape?

Fretboard (Maple)
- rounded edges
- black dot inlays? custom for 12th?
- Fender olschool frets
- fallaway from 13th
- compound radius 10-14"; maybe go to like 20" on the fallaway?
- Bone white nut

Body (Bar Ash)
- custom own created shape
- carved front
- through body stringing
- not too heavy

Hardware (gold! and black maybe)
- locking tuners
- HB + P90? or HB +Singlecoil
- no Tone Pots, 1 Vol knob only, that one reachable with pinky if in any way optically achievable

 

# Memos (to myself and anyone)
Do everything once! Meaning... try to plan all the steps one after another because going back will double the time of the process.

11 hours ago, kayteck said:

Thanks @ Rodman .

I liked the design process so much that i am a little bit sorry it is over 😞

But so excited with new stunning (hard to find proper description though to express how brilliant the instrument is) guitar...

Sounds and plays just amazing.

Me too -  though that zillion tries on the finish were really nerve-wrecking, still somehow i enjoyed every minute.

It was such a different experience having someone bringing in ideas and having clear thoughts what it should have, and what not 😉, and then stumbling through to find the right compromise everywhere.

Building was straight forward, no major drawbacks until the finish. Again i learned a lot in the process.
I really like how slim and fast the neck came out. In my tests playability was superb, fells alot like my Scheckter SLS on the upper frets and the Strat Ultra in the open chord section, surely top 3 in playability that i had in hands so far. And the EMG Kirk Hammets - phhh - beasts. I hope there is a 7 sting version of those, gotta have a look, cause someday soon i think i am gonna build exactly that design as a 7-stringer for myself (i don´t own one)

Great it serves you well - may the Rock be with you!