Guitar Works Volume Seven: The Scrap Wood Build

By: Geo Dell

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

The Scrap Wood build is exactly as it sounds. It is a slim bodied electric guitar built from scrap wood. I went further than that and carried the idea of conservation through the build by using all recycled parts with the exception of new pots in the wiring harness. This build starts with rough-sawn, recycled timbers; the glue up to provide the necessary width. Rough-cutting and shaping the body: Routing for a loaded pickguard; mating a re-purposed neck to the body as a glue-in neck. Fretboard work, wiring, shaping, sanding, electronics and final sanding, prepping, staining and finishing round out this project. Start to finished project fully photographed. The resulting guitar, a short scale slim bodied electric, is not only unique but very playable and something you can be proud of finishing and playing.