Hey guys, I managed to get all the pics of my 8 string's build in one place. So here ya go. I barely had any tools and everything I did I learned in a 4 month class at the local college and from reading Project Guitar. Hope you guys dig it.
I drew the dimensions out as accurately as possible. If you know the scale length, you should know exactly where everything should go.
Once that was done, I made sure I had all of my wood ahead of time. That's a one piece block of mahogany ($80 CDN) and two 1 inch x 3.25 inch x 48 long purpleheart boards ($10 CDN) The black templates were out of heavy bristol board.
Tried to figure out what part of the wood would look best.
I ended up changing the template so the body was wider, here's the original cutout with a hipshot 8 bridge.
I really liked the body shape until i put the body where i normally play and the upper horn was going to stab in the face. I thought that would suck so i heavily changed the upper horn.
I have no pics of the glueup of the scarf joint which truly sucks. So here's the purpleheart neck with the truss cavity cut.
Put on the birdseye maple fretboard and headstock bookmatch birdseye.
A mock up with the body - before cutting the neck pocket. That in itself was a horrific experience. The bearing on the router bit had the collar slip and there was a brutal gouge. I learned a lot about epoxy at this point.
I actually don't have a picture of it because i was too bitter about it at the time.
Neck side
Pickup routing
Control cavity - router template shifted...grrr.
Inlays pre-radiusing
Back shot after a lot of sanding
Done
It's got it's flaws, but when i started this, I hadn't touched a wood tool since grade 9 and knew squat. Hope you guys dig this.
