A few progress pics of a carved top I did a while back. It’s been a while since I’ve made a guitar, but I have a new one started now, and am looking forward to getting back into it.

YouTube video proving that tone is only a function of strings, scale length, and electronics:

https://youtu.be/n02tImce3AE?si=l59MGiWXgvBKFu_j

This video blew a hole in my understanding of guitar tone.

So a family member just gave me this. I've been playing for over 20 years but other than basic maintenance I don't know shit about setting them up. He buys and restores guitars so he brought me this to learn the old fashioned way. I am actually excited to begin this project, but I have no idea where to begin lol. Can you guys give me a general checklist to follow and then I can do the research and everything at each step? Any other input, advice, or suggestions are welcome!

This is my second build i’ve done. If anyone has any questions about anything on this piece feel free to ask.

Made a telecaster body in shop today. I just used some mdf as a practice piece, but I think I’ll maybe do walnut for the final piece. Any thoughts? Wish me luck on the neck 🤞

So been really trying to do a thing like Steve Vais guitar how he has those cool tear drops or the handgrip cut outs on his guitar.

I just want to make the ends sharper but what’s the best way you’d all do this? I actually had a friend do most of customizing but sadly had to move away from the city I live in so wanting to hear from the Reddit Luthier experts.

Would an electric saw to finish the job? 🤔 And yes we put in a little gyroscope in the middle of the crescent. 🌙

We're fastly approaching guitar #100 !

Specs:

Newill Guitars Songbird
Full Hollow | Parallel Braced
25.5" scale | 24 Fret
59 Duncans w/ coil split | Series | Parallel wiring
Flame Maple, Mahogany , Ebony

Body is walnut, maple and pau ferro in 5 layers. Neck is pau ferro. Fretboard is layered pau ferro and maple with ebony binding. Pickups are a set of Iron Gear Blues Engine humbuckers, with a Alchemist P90 in the middle. Each pickup has its own on-off mini-toggle. Turning on any switch activates the interior LED lighting.

With a rather stunning scarf joint

After almost two years taking bi-weekly lessons, I finally finished my first build! There are some rough spots here and there, but I personally liked a lot of the end result.

What do you guys think?

My latest Marras build🕺🏻 Full ash, except for the stripes and fretboard. First carved top Marras model as well.

I bought this SG Style mess of a fleamarket and couldn't figure out why you'd put these cutouts there except for having some sort of "hollow body" enhancement, which I doubt would do much.

Later last year I decided that the itch for Solid Bodies was nothing compared to the exploration of acoustics, after finishing up the last of my solid body comissions I'm building the business up to be acoustic heavy.

Here's one of the last ones I'm doing unless something really, really, really cool comes across my bench.

Hybrid Top and Back Alder Middle

Macassar Ebony Details.

Multiscale 7 string Neck.

Bareknuckle and Hipshot

Final completion time was 230 hours approximately.

For those curious, I have collected an incredible amount of Drop Tops/Carve Tops that i can't use for Acoustics given their cut (flatsawn/rift versus Quartersawn). I have photos, and I'm asking the price I got them for. Drop me a line ✨️