My Deadhead Cypress "Bandsaw Box" Acoustic/Electric Guitar
Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 6:41 pm
My current project is a "Bandsaw Box" Acoustic Guitar. Instead of bending the sides on this guitar, I pieced together blocks from my scrap bin and cut it out on the bandsaw. The body is recovered Gulf Cypress from the St. John's River. The hand carved neck is laminated cypress with a cherry "skunk stripe" in the middle. It has an adjustable truss rod, cypress veneer on the headstock, and a mahogany fingerboard. The bridge plate is also carved from mahogany. It will have a rod piezo under the bridge saddle connected to a pre-amp equalizer mounted in the upper side, and the nut & saddle will be carved from a piece of ox bone. The finish ( in process ) is hand rubbed amber shellac & linseed oil with a minwax poly high gloss top coat. This is the most ambitious project I've tried so far, and I wanted to share it with you at MIMF.







