Guitar bodies.

a66jagdream · Post by **a66jagdream** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:36 pm

Where is a good place to buy wood for making bodies? i designed this guitar about 4 or 5 years ago and im looking at prices to build it.

Thanks

Aug · Post by **Aug** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:41 pm

if you want alder or something like that, you'll pay $100+ at stewmac, but, if you'd like to build from poplar, (as I do) I go to a lumber yard (Anawalt Lumber) and buy 20" planks of poplar. I get the 1 3/4"x 10" and the 1 3/4" x 6" and glue them together using Titebond II from Home Depot. I've had great success so far, and spend FAR, FAR, FAR less than $100 per body. Poplar is also fairly easy to worth with and generally comes dry enough to build and paint almost immediately.

DGNR8 · Post by **DGNR8** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:07 am

How can you determine dryness?

Aug · Post by **Aug** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:11 am

DGNR8 wrote:How can you determine dryness?

If you can't get your finger in the hole, then it's too dry.

robert(original) · Post by **robert(original)** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 1:09 pm

bass wood is ultra cheap as well, you just need to go to a lumber yard and stay away from stewmac and any other online place. unless you go the h ibdon route, they have really nice white mahogny.
basically, what you pay for a body blank, at stew mac, is what you would pay me for a finished body(not painted)
of you just want a body blank i supose i could sell you a piece of bass wood.
just let me know if you are interested.