How to go from plain old wood to a guitar… in this case even from plain old plywood!
After attempting a bass guitar earlier in the year, and only being half satisfied mostly because I chose horrendously hard, dense, heavy wood by mistake, this time I made it easy on myself and built using plywood for the body. This isn’t as weird as it sounds – quite a few vintage guitars were made with plywood, like Danelectro.
So you can see the final piece above, bright red, Epiphone Coronet style guitar, as recently sported by Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys. Which is great, considering this guitar was a Christmas present for Alex Turner, my son!
There was at least 2 big things wrong with it that I plan to rectify with my next build (already started a bit a Telecaster-style guitar) but there’s loads I’m happy wth also. It matches the original style nicely, the red is good, and despite the issue it does play quite well (slide especially!) The big Wilkinson P90 pickup makes a decent sound!
So the building continues and always looking to get better 🙂