How to Build Your Own Guitar : Types of Wood to Use for Building a Guitar

There are four basic types of wood used when constructing a guitar: mahogany, alder, ash and basswood. Expert craftsman will show you which to use when building your own guitar in this free guitar-building video.

Expert: Frank Pope
Bio: Frank Pope, founder of FBI Guitars, been building guitars for more than 10 years and has constructed more than 30 finished products.
Filmmaker: Reel Media LLC

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• guitar
• construction
• music
• hobby
• guitars
• neck
• frets
• gibson
• fender

[piercedsquid]

The color of that neck is a bit light for mahogany. I think he picked up a random neck and called it mahogany, hoping no one would know the difference

[fridgeslayer94]

looks like maple

[yugiohfrancis]

fuck expert village i'm building one made of maple

[0670717]

Does all this apply to bass guitars as well? Ash, Alder, Mahogany?

[rnlblue]

how do you make a prs usa made

[Predator2169]

nice wood ;)

[theonepeacemaker]

CUT! you need to rewrite the script for this video!

Types of wood my donkey! You don't even get close to talking about classical guitars, flamenco guitars, which materieal is good for which kind of genre, why plywood is bad. etc.

[greatyetiproductions]

@zantji i can make it

[acryfromabove]

That.. Is NOT a mahogany neck.. Lol.

[Matta212121]

where would i get bass wood ?

[RandyFoxKiller]

@DanOlooney basswood