New Electric Guitar

This great new customer did what none have before...He brought me a piece of wood he had under his bed for 10 years! Eric traveled from Philly with this amazing piece of flamed maple. We decided to make the body with thick wonderful slabs of mahogany for the back, and his maple for the top. 3/4" thick for both the back and the top. This creates a sculptural quality to the body, with a pronounced waterfall of flamed grain rolling over the top edge. I could have made three tops out of that piece, but I don't like to skimp!

The photos below show the mahogany being joined, then coated with glue for the glue-up with the top.
You can see the drawing on the blank prior to bandsawing out the body, and lastly, the final woodworking all completed, on my shop-stand from my previous blog article.

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