What is this guitars wood?

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My middle pickup fell !!!

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How are Subaru Bodies to work with?

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Custom Tele-Jag hybrid

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What are your thoughts on a natural ash Tele?

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Natural Telecaster made from scratch

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Finally startin to come together

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Traded for used “Telecaster”. What in the world is going on here and is it even fixable.?

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Just added another notch to my luthier belt. This time, my first bass guitar. Very happy with it!

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Just finished this L5 copy with a Ken Parker style adjustable neck! I made a full build video too, I'll leave a link in the comments

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Finished up shaping the body for my Jazz Masterson. Mahogany core with a spalted camphor top. On to sanding

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Neon pink, purple, magenta, or blue?

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This one is not mine anymore. FIRST SALE!!!

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What should I do about this gouge?

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My Plywood Les Paul

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Strings are on!

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First build. Jerry Garcia style alligator Stratocaster

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Shipping this guitar off to a client in Singapore today!

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Bronze-dipped anyone?

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First ever build. What do you think?

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My latest accomplishment

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Can somebody explain how to make that thing?

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I just can‘t not share that stunning headstock...!

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My first project. I couldn't be happier.

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Hwet sandin’ the day away. Can’t wait to see it buffed!

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Yoshi Strat

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Plycoustic scrapstack complete. I’ve been playing it all day and I’m in love.

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I'm an idiot

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Finally wrapped up my first build.

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This violin is long overdue for some fingerboard work

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I have acquired this tele neck via mystical means but I don’t know what kind of guitar I want to make for it. What should I do, fellas?

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HOT HOT HOT - Dexter Poindexter

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Bigsby with a b-bender.

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Just finished my first baritone. Thoughts?

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Finish

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Matching pair

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All hand tool quarantine custom complete!

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My first guitar build - tele

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Anyone know how PRS does this body finish?

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Headless Acoustic I'm getting close to finishing

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Customer said I'm having lots of tuning issues. I wonder why. 😂

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To the best there ever was and ever will be.

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Just realized it was my cake day so I figured I’d milk some karma by showing this bass that I’m just about done with.

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Finished a build

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Painted this thing with Truck Bed Liner

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French polish really is a labor of love.

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Slicing up Koa guitar wood today! Finally getting out of my house!

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I love working with ebony. It's like metalsmithing!

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My first finished guitar

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I guess Gibson is rationing glue. Brand new from the factory G series acoustic guitar with horrible bridge lift.

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ITS HAPPENING

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First build complete!

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Microtonal, half-fretless build!

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My Completed Headless Les Paul! The Less Paul

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The first go around of my 17” shape. It’s coming together great so far!

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What's your flavor?

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I wanted cherry sunburst but ended with this

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I carved my FIRST peghead for my first classical build and it was hard af (and asymmetric af)

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Build ready for binding and stain.

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Horrible set up?

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A small body archtop I’m currently building

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My Collection of Selfmade Les Pauls

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Guitar Kit Came In

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Finished up my first build! Amazed myself that it intonates wonderfully, no major string height issues / fret buzz... that was so much fun! New guitar day hits different when you build it yourself.

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Inlaid neck through flying v is done

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Ok seriously, which one of you psychopaths did this?!

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Walnut on a Saturday.

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Been working on carving the top

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My first burst attempt

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For my A-level product design project I decided to build my first (and probably last) guitar from scratch. Here’s how it turned out.

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Another black walnut beauty! Some cool figure matched with black resin, always a killer combo!

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Today, I was able to deliver #39. It's still can't believe I get to do this for fun. Here she is next to her owner's Hilton stablemate.

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Made two for me on my day off.

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So my cousin actually built a couple guitars for Eddie Van Halen. Here's a picture of one of those guitars over a photo of my cousin presenting Eddie with a different guitar he built him. Shred in peace Eddie.

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Back carves complete on a new model I’m working on

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Crazy cocobolo rosewood for electric guitar #76

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Bumble Bee EVH Tribute, carved guitar that I made a few months ago. No metal except for the little nails; all wood with a faux finish.

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4th build, 1st set neck. Second Wolf-ish build. Digging the P90s and a 25” scale.

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inlaid neck through flying v with the first coat of hemp oil

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This turned out to be pretty wood

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Got help fixing up an 1991 Kramer and they found writing underneath the fretboard. Translation desperately needed. 😊

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Here is another of my builds, for you flame/quilt lovers. This was a custom build per order.

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Posted this earlier this year when I was doing the clear coat: it's finally done!

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I think she might be just about done

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First build

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Finished dying the top on the 7-string build

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First time building a bass version of one of my guitars

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I didn’t notice the knot in this neck until way too late in the process. Anything I can do here or is this scrap now?

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The first rule of Sanding Club is, you do not talk about Sanding Club

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this sycamore turned out to be stunning

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RF shielding, it's almost therapeutic 🤩

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My first attempt at Luthiery! Scratch Built Bass from Purpleheart, Steam-bent Ash, Torrefied Maple, and Ebony! (video of how it sounds in comments)

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My three builds (2017, 2018, 2020, top to bottom)

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The Epiphone SJean

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little group photo of all my current demo guitars. what would you like to see more of?

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Well amigos, I did it. thanks to everyone who answered my questions, rock n roll

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Pickgaurds don't affect sound do they?

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Refinishes Complete!

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Clear Coat cover to protect signature on guitar

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Body almost done, then onto the neck! Got a Fralin Split 50s Precision Pickup coming in today!

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Third electric 99% complete!

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And so it begins!

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Nostalgia hit me today, so I unpacked my first guitar I made when I was 17:

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Finished product from former post. Thanks for the help and support!

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My new aerodyne strat (not quite finished)

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Why is this tool impossible to find?

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Will these give me single coil or humbucker tones?

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Wrapped up my relic telecaster build with walnut over alder wood.

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A beautiful piece of cocobolo

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No. 8 is finally complete... I still cant quite believe I was able to will this into existence with my bare hands.

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So after a year hiatus I finally finished my first scratch built guitar

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First time doing Abalone purfling...phew!

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This is serial #50 for me. Just finished.

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Just finished up my first headless build!

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Making progress on my first guitar build.

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Finished this one up some months ago.

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Just finished my first strat build

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They're all grown up and ready to ship...

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Do you guys think I have enough wood to start building?

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Made a GLASS bolt on neck for my strat.

4yr ⋅

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Opinions needed!!

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Making guitar stands for upcoming show

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I finished this one recently, I call the colour Tobacco Fade, a combo of dyes and sprayed burst with nitro clearcoat. If you're interested in seeing how I did the finish, I'll put a link to the youtube how video in the comments.

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Ready to level sand and buff!

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This made me laugh

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Progress on my shop project guitar, still got a handful of things left to do

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You guys seemed to like the last build, so here is the latest!

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Inlay done!

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Transparent inlaying, have you seen examples of this technique before?

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Got bored during lockdown with not being at Uni. So I built my first ever guitar from scratch.

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Us there any way to remove this solder faster? My iron is on max and it's not doing anything...

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Protip: DON‘T MESS THESE UP!! ;)

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Anyway to remove this painted on Aflac logo?

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Clients this happy make my day.

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I reshaped a 25€ Strat into this rock & roll machine

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Complete.

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One of my favorite jobs so far

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first build - how do i add frets now?

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Getting through my workload, Transparent white Mirus model finished up. Copper Patina pickguard really sets it off.

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Typical progression

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Gremlicaster part II

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Aniline Dye is the way to go on pine. No blotchiness at all, even on the end grain. Shoulda tried this a long time ago!

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First attempt at a flake finish on a les Paul.

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Slipping you the booty pic.

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Hail satan, I suppose.

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First guitar build in progress, what color should I stain this body?

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