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I went to a local hardware store (not a big box store), and they have a piece of mahogany 15" wide by 85" long, I guess about 5/8 thick. I figured it up, and that is enough wood to make a "solid" mahogany body if I stack three pieces for the body, and a 15"x31" section to make the neck.
Three questions:
Looking around the internet, I was looking for the right way to make the neck. I will purchase a fingerboard, probably rosewood, or ebony. Do I simply stack 4" wide sections to make a 1-7\8" thick slab, and work in the shape? Or is it better to work with thinner "quarter-sawn" sections, kind of like a butcher block construction? I will use some of the remainder to make a tilted-back headstock.
My body plan is a gentle arch, contoured front and back, a slimmed out dinky design. HS pups, TOM bridge set in a brass string through block. How difficult is honduran mahogany to shape as far as planing? I can rough it out with a side grinder and so forth, but arch planing is something I've not done yet. I was almost thinking of protoyping the whole guitar in poplar first, to get a feel of the art of archtop building.
Is this chunk of wood a good deal at 80 dollars? Looking at body and neck blanks, it looks like it is. Especially since it is 15 inches wide. I don't see a problem with stacking the three pieces to attain the thickness I need.
Three questions:
Looking around the internet, I was looking for the right way to make the neck. I will purchase a fingerboard, probably rosewood, or ebony. Do I simply stack 4" wide sections to make a 1-7\8" thick slab, and work in the shape? Or is it better to work with thinner "quarter-sawn" sections, kind of like a butcher block construction? I will use some of the remainder to make a tilted-back headstock.
My body plan is a gentle arch, contoured front and back, a slimmed out dinky design. HS pups, TOM bridge set in a brass string through block. How difficult is honduran mahogany to shape as far as planing? I can rough it out with a side grinder and so forth, but arch planing is something I've not done yet. I was almost thinking of protoyping the whole guitar in poplar first, to get a feel of the art of archtop building.
Is this chunk of wood a good deal at 80 dollars? Looking at body and neck blanks, it looks like it is. Especially since it is 15 inches wide. I don't see a problem with stacking the three pieces to attain the thickness I need.
Hardware store wood will shrink so much that your standard size body will turn into a DNKY before you are done.:ROTF:
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