new project half bread guitar

[woodchuck30]

Paper traceings of a strat

Used maple for the body and quarter sawn maple for the neck

Templts

Glueing blanks for the body

Blank after cutting on the band saw

Body and neck after final cutting on router table.

First attempt at german carve,and routered neck pocket

[woodchuck30]

Dry Assembley

Layout for pickups

final fit + or - .003 neck taper 0.8 degrees in neck pocket..press fit

front

back

no screws.

[GattonFan]

Looking good, Woodchuck! I like that German carve on any style body, and looks like you've done a good job on it!
Dennis

[dorkrockrecords]

Looks like you'll have a nice Pensa-Suhr copy on your hands when you're finished. Neat-o.

[Veenture]

Fascinating to watch these guitar builds ...good job woodchuck30

[Sarah93003]

Very cool! More pictures to come I hope!

[surfrider]

Very nice looking guitar on the way there. Gotta see it when you are finished.

[JohnnySonic]

This could turn out to be the coolest strat-like guitar ever.
Looking forward to your progress.

[woodchuck30]

Thanks for the complements all. Yeah, more pics. to come, at the slow part now making the finger board, and cutting in the frets by hand. got cheep, found a nice piece of maple, and some wallnut for the markers, got to try this to see if I can do it, can't be that hard. The question is, what did they do before CNC machines? THink I got it figured out, we'll see again thanks

[101Volts]

Nice pictures! Its shaping up already, What color are you going to finish it in?

Thanks for the complements all. Yeah, more pics. to come, at the slow part now making the finger board, and cutting in the frets by hand. got cheep, found a nice piece of maple, and some wallnut for the markers, got to try this to see if I can do it, can't be that hard. The question is, what did they do before CNC machines? THink I got it figured out, we'll see again thanks

Well, You can use a dremel.

Austin