Solidbody Electric Guitar From Plywood

Here's a nicely-done article about building a solidbody electric guitar from plywood. Total build: body, neck, fingerboard, everything. I'd call this a "found-material project", related to cigar box instruments, but I think his neck construction meth

Hanging Tree Guitars: The Wood's 'Not Good, Not Bad, Not Ugly - Just Strange'

A new book and museum exhibition celebrate the work of North Carolina luthier Freeman Vines. His handmade guitars are crafted from found materials and hunks of old wood, including some from a tree once used for a lynching. https://www.npr.org/2020/0

Why you should use F-holes in your acoustic CBG

I haven't ever built a CBG with F-holes because I wanted something "edgier" and less "traditional". Who wants their gnarly home-built instrument imitating a violin, right?

But I'm changing my mind, based on this article. Turns out, that shape evolved

Techniques from Violin building

How to make bottle cap knobs

I've seen one or two passing mentions of using bottle caps for volume/tone knobs, but no details. It's not that difficult, so maybe everyone else figures it out just like I did.

But in case you want a head start, here are the specifics:

Materials: a

Kid reinvents wheel

At first, I thought this was going to be a parody, but he actually pulls it off, using a lot of techniques that will be familiar to us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byL9zXzRo24

Latest build - a six-string

I just put up a couple of photos of my latest build. I did it for my guitar instructor, who liked my four-string and asked me to make him a 6-string. He set some parameters by giving me two boxes, a Fender Telecaster bridge and a pickup (that didn't

Vintage Cigar Box Label Collection

This has no connection to guitars, other than that it's about cool cigar boxes. But that's enough, right?

Check out these awesome cigar box labels:

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2013/04/the-golden-age-of-cigar-box-art.html