Building a guitar

Building a guitar

Here are some pictures of one of my guitars being built

The guitar will be a strat style with a korina body and indian rosewood neck.

The body will have a spalted maple top.

It will have a tune-o-matic bridge and humbuckers rather than the usual strat hardware

the spalted maple for the top

Korina for the body

Indian Rosewood neck blank

body marked with the shape

body roughly cut out with spalted maple top attached

Body routed to its shape and top spalt being stabilised

neck cut out and slotted

Neck and body meet

Pickups routed and bridge holes drilled

mock-up with generic hardware

side dots

11-13th fret inlay (chosen by the bare knuckle pickups forum)

6-in line headstock shape

top slightly contoured

heel contours

Hardware distressed and aged

headstock inlayed

the neck carve and maple skunk stripe

The finished guitar

I went for an unpolished black burst finish

Wez Venables Guitars Burton On Trent UK

Email: contact@wezvenables.co.uk

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Wez Venables Guitars