Wanted to make a couple of stratocaster style guitars. I love to play, but I just don’t want to spend $1000 on a nice Fender Strat. I will eventually, but I have kids, and they knock over my beater guitars all the time. I thought this might be a great project to spend some time in the shop and have something useful and worthwhile to show for it.
I still haven’t sprayed finish on the Walnut Strat.
Bought a 10 dollar 60s model strat plan from ElectricHerald.com. Great folks over there. Good customer support when I came across a few issues with the drawing. Quick feedback and solutions.
Setup my CAD files and proceeded to the trusty ol’ LowRider!
Did a miniature test with all cuts in plywood to make sure the dimensions were accurate.
After that, the build was straight forward. With a little bit of woodworking, and just a couple specialized tools, building the guitars was a pleasure.
Very nicely done. Not sure how all this works. You say you made templates but then do you trace them out on the wood and cut them with a bandsaw or use the lowrider to machine them to final spec.
Thanks,
Dave
To be honest, I’m not set up for two sided milling. I haven’t put in the time to figure out flipping to get the back side cut. My one try resulted in a misalignment that cost me about $30 in materials. Templates are usually the standard in hobby guitar making, so I was just happy not to pay $100 for a full set.
It was also thinking about making a guitar, but since I only can do 3cm depth (went for the shortest feet) I thought about doing two pieces, front and back, each 3cm and glue them together. is that in any way feasible?
Cool, thanks. I am a drummer myself and would build it for our guitar player. So I have got no fucking clue about guitars.
If you want to have a good video on two sided cutting: DIY High-End Jazz-Bass-Guitar produced with the CNC machine HNC 47.82 from Hammer® | Felder Group - YouTube I really like their video. It gave me a few good ideas. They drill holes for pegs that are then fixed to the spoilboard, so you can just turn it around.