Thinking DIY

After doing a quick test by screwing on the neck and two outermost tuning machines with strings, checking that they sound fairly OK, I decided that it is time to start finishing the thing, to make sure it's playable as soon as possible. So, based on the suggestions I've seen on youtube and read everywhere, I started by taping everything carefully: on the neck part masked the fretboard, bindings, tuning peg holes, neck joint getting inside the body, nut, and on the body masked the pickup holes, the f-hole edges, bridge post and tailpiece post holes, potentiometer holes, toggle switch hole, and the neck cavity. After everything being taped, I went on with two coats of ground for wood (sanded with 120-grit then 320-grit sandpaper) and then came the interesting part with mahogany-tinted odorless wooden lacquer. It looked quite dark brown, but when applied to the mahogany (started with the neck first) it turned out to be orange-y. So, I've applied several coats: one coat ...

In the first part of this series I told you about my quest for an electric guitar. If you read that post, you've already found that I am searching for a DIY semi-hollow/hollow single-cut guitar kit (with f-holes). TheFretWire semi-hollow LP kit Based on the reviews of DIY kits, TheFretWire would be the first resource to check, and there is a kit meeting my requirements. But let's have more requirements to meet, it would be too easy if the first one matched. Les Paul guitars are famous for Mahogany body+Mahogany neck combination, and the tonewood used for a guitar surely influences the sound. The kit from TheFretWire is Basswood/Maple body. Another point agains TheFretwire was import taxes, due to it being from outside of the EU. So, on to searching something in the EU. RockTile DIY kit from kirstein.de After checking several UK resources, and finding nothing matching my requirements, found one kit in DE matching most of my requirements, but is not a LP-styl...

Since quite some time I've been thinking about having an electric guitar. But not just one electric guitar, because I don't like the sound of most of them. But there was one, outstanding (it turned out there are more, but not at the pricepoint I could afford). Gibson Les Paul High Performance 2019 And that was the Epiphone/Gibson Les Paul form. It usually has a distinct fullness, warmth in its tone, probably due to a number of reasons, be it wood, design, pickups, scale length, etc. So, all I knew I wanted a Les Paul form, or maybe not even Les Paul, just a single-cut, to be more generic. The cheapest LP guitars from thomann (EU - no taxes for me) are 100-200EUR , with fairly acceptable quality based on reviews. As for the design, I love f-holes, so the plan was either hollow-body or semi-hollow body. And I wanted to also have the option to have acoustic sound (usually done with a piezo pickup), so I found that my dream guitar would be one able to blend acoustic and ele...