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.
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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!
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The boy has GOT to teach Papa how to do that!
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(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