DIY home built hand made guitar body part 1

I built an electric guitar body with maple, pine, and some GFS New York pickups and other parts I had lying around, with fairly common tools. (Band saw, router, orbital sander, drill, clamps, screwdrivers, glue... )

I have a lot to learn about the whole process, but it turned out playable and looking about how I wanted it to. However I can hardly play it because my practice time went to zero while I was building it!

Please note the ebayad isn't the actual wood I used. Its just to show about how much I paid for the wood. This guitar used big leaf maple that was rough-sawn to 7/8" thick.

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[rockout7190]

Hey, Quick question about then neck, I just bought a guitar neck from GFS and i noticed that the hight from the body to the fret board was allot higher then my other guitars I own, I think I noticed In the video you had this same thing, did this cause and issues for you when where adjusting the bridge? Or where you just able to rase the bridge and had no issue?

[GitarCarl]

@rockout7190 The neck height didn't cause any issues for me and your situation will probably work out OK. Think if the height from the body to the fretboard was really short. You would have to shim the neck up a lot at the end (where its deepest into the body) and lower the bridge as low as it would go. In this case the neck is high, so you may need less shimming or even no shimming to get it at an angle so that the bridge can be in the middle of its vertical adjustment range.

[illKillYouRAWR]

what kind of glue was used???

[GitarCarl]

@illKillYouRAWR I used yellow carpenter's glue because the gluing surfaces are large and the stresses are then relatively low. For a set neck guitar, hide glue is best to put the neck on the body. For an acoustic guitar, I think hide glue is used to put the body together...

[mikesewell2008]

Question!!! I have seen on alot of videos, that for the base of the guitar they glue either 2 or 3 peices of wood together. Is that nessasery cant you just get one big thick piece of wood????

[GitarCarl]

@mikesewell2008 You sure can use a big piece of wood. On ebay you will find many one-piece strat and tele bodies. Any guitar about that size could be made from a single piece of wood. But its cheaper to glue smaller pieces together.

[Evipicc]

Longer connection with the string through body allows more transferance of the vibration of the strings into the body. That is how sustain works.

[whysolimited]

great look to that guitar

[disestablishme]

i'll bet the tone from that heap sux a fat one! you cant possibly tell me it dont when you have that many pieces to the body! that and you play like a confused asshole.

[TheHellion247]

Very nice. Sounds great and it sounds like you can play some basic stuff just fine.

Inspiring... I want to try some of those GFS singles.

[indus3d]

@illKillYouRAWR

hi Budy, really nice video, congratulation, may you can check on our youtube chanel, bye

[diversereel]

How did you get the body to be so perfect and clean?

[secondworldFB]

very awesome guitar! im actually gonna make my own,LP style with Gibson rock pickups

[illKillYouRAWR]

@GitarCarl Muchos Gracias