Ok well, not complete yet, but thought a forum of guitar players might like to see 2 builds that I am working on for myself at the moment. I'm going to finish the maple top body with the maple neck and fretboard guitar first. The picture with the clamps I took this afternoon after gluing on the fretboard. Fret slots are done, just have to do the neck carve, dot inlay, and fret install tomorrow morning. The body is mostly done, just have to rout floyd cavity, electronics cavity, and drill holes for volume knob and switch. Then it's sanding to 600 grit and then it's stain and finish time! The top came from a nice billet of curly maple that was PRS factory reject because they didn't like the grain pattern. I think it looks great. Body is a 2 piece basswood body that I glued up and cut out. The other body and neck in the picture is a mahogany body with a padauk/maple top and a padauk neck/maple fretboard. That one will be next to be finished after the basswood/maple one. Have a great weekend everyone!

Sick! Nice job, something I long to do!

You cut that right out of a slab?

Sure did. I order all of my body, neck, and top wood by the long board and then cut, resaw, plane and joint it before rough cutting the body and neck. Carve the back of the neck by hand, and slot the fretboards myself too!

Sweet! really nice... and all done with a ton of Harbor Freight squeeze clamps... ha ha

Ha! Good eyes! Steel C clamps are super expensive. Those harbor freight ones work just fine for what I need and they're cheap to replace too!

i want one! where do i place an order?

very nice work bro.

Stellar work! I have never done one and tried to keep the wood character. I have always painted mine, but starting to like some of the woods. Great! Now you have me wanting to build again.

Thanks everyone!

Ross, some day when I get an LLC and decide to quit the comfort and stability of my day job and start a guitar company, you can be my first customer!

Wannabe, I usually try to stick to premium grade tone woods. I figure if I'm gonna put 40+ hours of work into a single guitar, might as well go all-out! I did get some dirt cheap sapele mahogany that has a below average looking grain so I'm going to put a basic maple top on for purely tone purposes and paint it neon green, 80's shred style!

Fantastic!!!!

+1 very cool!