Chistopher
malapterurus electricus tonewood instigator
As part of my guitar building journey, I'm trying to be able to make as much of the instrument with local materials as possible. Also as cheaply as possible without cutting corners. I live near a furniture grade lumber mill and a Lowes, so it isn't too hard to experiment.
As part of this I've taken to making body blanks by hand.
This is fairly low grade ash reclaimed from a forest fire near my house last summer. That's about $20 worth of wood you are looking at. Tried to plane and joint it with a hand planer, but I realized I don't have the patience and did the bulk of the removal with a powered hand planer. I glued them together, now I am sanding them down flat. Probably gonna put a solid finish on this, but I might yet get a good look out of it.
This is my 3rd attempt, and it's the first one that has made it far enough to be usable. The previous two did not have clean enough joints to to match well in the middle but I didn't have an eye for that at that point, so I glued them together anyway
As part of this I've taken to making body blanks by hand.
This is fairly low grade ash reclaimed from a forest fire near my house last summer. That's about $20 worth of wood you are looking at. Tried to plane and joint it with a hand planer, but I realized I don't have the patience and did the bulk of the removal with a powered hand planer. I glued them together, now I am sanding them down flat. Probably gonna put a solid finish on this, but I might yet get a good look out of it.
This is my 3rd attempt, and it's the first one that has made it far enough to be usable. The previous two did not have clean enough joints to to match well in the middle but I didn't have an eye for that at that point, so I glued them together anyway
