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Comment by Rick on December 14, 2013 at 6:03am

My first build, a licence plate guitar....

I have added a piezo since the pics were taken and changed the bridge to lower the action. I'm pretty happy with it and learned a few things to not do on future builds.

Comment by stringybark on May 30, 2013 at 7:42am

Joe.. that is awesome! Fantastic!

Comment by Joe Ledington on April 17, 2011 at 2:24am

heres the maple back with a cherry accent strip. I used western red cedar for the front, and maple for the neck and body. it still gets a walnut fret board, all in all I think it will look pretty good I just hope it sounds good.

Comment by Joe Ledington on April 17, 2011 at 2:21am

I am almost done with my first instrument, it's a strummer set like a dulcimer. I still need the string, hardware and to glue on the walnut fret board. I also started a oak teardrop dulcimer. after I got that one on its way I going to start the hourglass and then a banjo.

Comment by Buttermilk Music aka Norm on November 25, 2010 at 12:44pm

I'm currently building a Hawaiian square necked CBG with a lowezo. Decided to go with a stratocaster head so I'm doing a bit of laminating right now to make more width. Used some scrap pieces of exotic hardwo0ds.

The first glue didn't take... cocobolo to oak. Must be to amount of oil in the wood. I switched over to padauk and glued 2 1/4" dowels clear through.

Went with the stratocaster because I wanted have the strings all lined in straight row to the tuners.