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  1. 03-14-2006, 08:10 PM #1
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    Cheap body blank

    I want to build a minimalist guitar on the tune of, oh, about 55 dollars (not including the single GF P90). As I has said before, a neck was given to me, so i don't have to worry much about that. I have access to all the electronic hardware (volume pot and a jack). The point of this theoretical guitar would be to give me a practice shot at guitar building and to let me try out the neck, and a p90. I might also have access to some black walnut i could laminate to the top of what ever the body wood is. Maybe one day i'll get a proper swamp ash body and a refret, but for now i just want to mess around.

    what i'd need:
    LP Junior Bridge ($19)
    Wood (Free?)
    Dream 90 ($35)

    So what wood could i get at the hard ware store for dirt cheap and still sound decent? I would be willing to laminate many pieces of wood together but it needs to be a reasonable number of pieces.
    "The other Shaltanac's joopleberry shrub is always a more mauvy shade of pinky-russet."

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  2. 03-14-2006, 08:11 PM #2
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    Re: Cheap body blank

    Somebody online makes a guitar called the "telecrapper" using an oak toilet seat lid as the body...
    s'all goof.
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  3. 03-14-2006, 08:23 PM #3
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    Re: Cheap body blank

    yo...i'd get 4 pieces of mahogany, glued together like a packake Norlin LP body, and do a Tele to that MoFo!

    or get Pine and do the same thing...[the pancake design JUST to add stability to STORE-BOUGHT wood]

    good luck, and dont 4get the pics!
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    Re: Cheap body blank

    That's a tough price range!

    As long as you know what the neck is like, there's always ebay.
    I'm assuming you have a Fender-style neck...

    http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Hardwood-Tel...QQcmdZViewItem
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  5. 03-14-2006, 09:24 PM #5
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    Re: Cheap body blank

    Hey! That's actually pretty hot! http://www.superkestrel.com/images/P...rapper_mid.jpg
    s'all goof.
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  6. 03-14-2006, 11:31 PM #6
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    Re: Cheap body blank

    Quote Originally Posted by frank thomson
    yo...i'd get 4 pieces of mahogany, glued together like a packake Norlin LP body, and do a Tele to that MoFo!

    or get Pine and do the same thing...[the pancake design JUST to add stability to STORE-BOUGHT wood]

    good luck, and dont 4get the pics!
    What is this pancake method you mention?

    do you mean like
    laminated Wishbass "Peanut"

    or like
    Plywood

    And me, being les paul illiterate, I have no clue about Norlin guitars.

    But yeah I could go with a tele look. after all, i don't already have that shape in my collection.
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    Re: Cheap body blank

    Quote Originally Posted by NeoFauve
    That's a tough price range!

    As long as you know what the neck is like, there's always ebay.
    I'm assuming you have a Fender-style neck...

    http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Hardwood-Tel...QQcmdZViewItem
    ooo...
    too rich for my blood.
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    Re: Cheap body blank

    Quote Originally Posted by curtisstetka
    Hey! That's actually pretty hot! http://www.superkestrel.com/images/P...rapper_mid.jpg
    I'll bet it's got a big bottom end.

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  9. 03-15-2006, 05:11 AM #9
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    Re: Cheap body blank

    go to the LES PAUL FORUM [link on this page under those cool old guitars^] and search Norlin pancake...you'll prob get millions of results...

    in the 70's (some 80s) Norlin made all gibson guitars....the had a pancake body and a 3 pc maple neck...many hate them, many dont....PAncake is when you get thinner pieces of wood and stack it like pancakes *appx 3/4" thick each piece*....kinda the same thing as ply, but thicker.
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    Re: Cheap body blank

    Close Frank,

    The sandwich body was gone by about 75, along about the same time they went to the 3 pc maple neck.

    It's referred to as a sandwich because it has two pieces of mahogany with a thin maple veneer in the middle.
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    Re: Cheap body blank

    For $130, you could get a made SX guitar with body made of Ash...strat or Tele copy, get the neew pickguard/add your own parts, etc. and sell the surplus parts to offset the cost. Of course, what if you liked it as it wa....what would you do then?
    http://www.rondomusic.net/electricguitar-ss2.html
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  12. 03-15-2006, 06:04 AM #12
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    Re: Cheap body blank

    MP, my 75 Dlx has both the 3pc neck and the pan body

    so basically mine was made from scraps of wood :lol

    [still NOT for sale, dammit!]
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  13. 03-15-2006, 08:35 AM #13
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    Re: Cheap body blank

    Quote Originally Posted by curtisstetka
    Hey! That's actually pretty hot! http://www.superkestrel.com/images/P...rapper_mid.jpg
    Now that's what I call a AAAAA flame! :lol
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    Re: Cheap body blank

    I think I'll look around for some cherry, it is a bit cheeper then mahogany.
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    Re: Cheap body blank

    Quote Originally Posted by Jonnda
    ooo...
    too rich for my blood.
    Dude, it's got a $60 BIN!
    Skip lunch for that extra $5.
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  16. 03-15-2006, 08:42 AM #16
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    Re: Cheap body blank

    This would take A LOT of glue!
    http://cgi.ebay.com/Lot-of-80-Beauti...QQcmdZViewItem

    Look what i found neo, a $25 BIN. Don't anyone dare buy it before i can. it is a huge chink of cherry for guitar making!
    url deleted till i can come up with the cash.
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    Re: Cheap body blank

    :yay
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    Re: Cheap body blank

    i scrolled down and thought i saw a "dumbass" jersey for sale, then i looked again and saw it said dunress...too bad.

    go for it man!
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    Re: Cheap body blank

    I think i'll take the pick guard from a squire Tele custom II. Does anyone know how those things are wired?
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    Re: Cheap body blank

    maybe a better question would be, Where can i buy a tele custom ii guard with only one p90 hole cut out?
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    Re: Cheap body blank

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWA%3AIT&rd=1

    I got the wood, it's in the mail.

    Has anyone used cherry for an electric guitar before? I hear it is supposed to be like mahogany in sound.
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