Making a Explorer type guitar body?

[Coyote]

Thought I'd try making a body so I went with the Gibson Explorer shape.
I don't know what the wood is but it's really heavy.






It has a small knot on the face but I think I can sand it out. I'm going to try a arched top and I'm going to put a Floyd Rose on it.

What do you think?

[Jackson/Charvelfan]

Cool!
Are you going bolt on or set neck?

[Learn Guitars]

Buy a router!

[Cygnus X1]

Interesting choice on the grain direction.

[Coyote]

Buy a router!






I'm going to do it all with a hammer and chisel.
I'm not going to use any electric tools, (they scare me)

[Coyote]

I love the grain direction I thought it would ad some more style


I'm thinking about a set neck but I'm still not sure.

[Cygnus X1]

I was thinking about danger of warpage in that direction.
Update us in a year or so.

[Coyote]

It's going to take a wile to get up the money for the pickups, Floyd Rose, and so on.
If any one wont's to donate any parts let me know

[StukaJU87]

Interesting choice on the grain direction.

...and body proportions.

[Blazer]

Looks like you've got yourself a big honking piece of OAK.

A wood I'm familiar with because I used it as the top of one of my main guitars: this one.



So I need to warn you in advance, oak is a type of wood prone to warping and on my guitar I actually had to re-glue the top on several places of the body because of the wood lifting.

[Cygnus X1]

Glad I didn't have that problem...but I "aged" mine bit by bit in the house oven, then chucked it out in the garage for a year before I cut it. No problems in twenty years, and the tone is dark, and, sustain-ey.

[hippietim]

Glad I didn't have that problem...but I "aged" mine bit by bit in the house oven, then chucked it out in the garage for a year before I cut it. No problems in twenty years, and the tone is dark, and, sustain-ey.

That is way cool. I really like the look of that!

[Cygnus X1]

Thanks, hippietim.
It's a prototype, but it has held it's own.

[Norton]

Oak's good for crafting bokken(wooden practice katana) and clubs, I don't know how it's gonna come out as a tonewood. Good luck.

[Cygnus X1]

Oak's good for crafting bokken(wooden practice katana) and clubs, I don't know how it's gonna come out as a tonewood. Good luck.

Kind of like ash. Like I mentioned, the mini bich is a bit "dark", very good on sustain, but a "bich" to work with. Splintering can be a huge problem.

Also, mine is not sandwiched, like the LP. It's a thick slab 'o wood.