Thanks for all the nice comments. I'll try to answer some of the questions.....
Nice work, Roger,
I do play guitar and I wonder what the resonance and sound quality of a Cedar body will be like.
Thanks for sharing with us and God Bless! Spirithorse
Well, not only do I NOT play a guitar, my "tin ear" doesn't know from resonance from apple butter. It is an electric and I don't really think the kind of wood has a lot of bearing on sound quality it would be more in the amp and pickup used I think.
Roger - the guitar body looks great.
One thought - cedar is pretty soft so you might add a pick guard to keep the scratching down. A wooden guard made from some thin hardwood would look slick on there.
Well, if I were really worried about it, I would probably do that, but since it is just a cheap instrument anyway and I figure that my grandkids are going to destroy it also, I would sooner see the grain in the cedar
wood while it is still around. I suppose a piece of plexiglass would do the trick of protection and visibility at the same time and if it were more of a quality guitar and was going to be used by someone a lot I would do that.
very nice guitar! that cedar looks really cool!
must be great to have a self made instrument like that!
was it hard to put back all the electric equipment and stuff?
how does your son say's that it plays?
Yes, it was a bit fussy trying to re-solder those tiny wires from the pickup, volume knob and amp outlet but, nothing that a bit of patience can't handle. Believe it or not, the harder part was re-stringing the darn thing at reassembly time. I was too cheap to buy a new set of strings and the old ones were all curled up and didn't want to straighten out.
But, as usual I gotter done anyway!
Actually, my son was here yesterday! He lives in a different town and brought the grandkids for grandma to babysit this week end. (So that he and his wife could celebrate their anniversary.)
While he was here, he gave it a good once over and tuned it up (by ear) and handed it to his six year old son who sat down and proceed to play a simple little song on it!
The boy has GOT to teach Papa how to do that!
(Actually GS has his own guitar just like my donor guitar)
Everyone got to play a little bit (granddaughter, daughter-in-law, son, and grandson) and they all liked how it looked.
Rog
PS Believe it or not, I going to do another guitar body......This time it's going to be a "Rat Tar"....Kinda like a "Rat Rod" that hot rodders build. It won't require any scroll saw work but, I may post a picture of it in this thread anyway just for laughs.
Check in from time to time if you are interested.
Rog
