Learning how to build an electric guitar

[lumberjim]

Aw yisss....



This is a blend of the SG and Les Paul. The bottom of the SG always looked weird to me. Like it had put on weight in the form of saddle bags. So at the waist, I transitioned over to the Les Paul template and traced that bottom. Also incorporated the circle switch from the LP and modified the pick guard to accommodate that.

This. This is what I'm going to do. And I might do channel binding on the neck.


You see how the fret board is sunk into the neck, and there's that thin strip of maple?

Sexy as fuck.



Now I'm excited. I'm going to start over on the neck. Make the nut wider. And dad wants no inlay, which is awesome. I'll either use the bubinga piece I've already slotted and radiused, or cut a new one from my remaining cocobola, or get some ebony. I think a black channel bound finger board with no inlay would look sick. Especially with the gold Evo fret wire he wants.