I built a guitar out of a shelf during quarantine !

In March 2020, Belgium was in full lockdown My local lumberstore was closed But I really wanted to build a guitar ... Here's the story of my quarantine build ... By the way, I'm not a luthier ! I'm just good at making people believe that I know what I'm doing ... But seriously, this is just a hobby

Channel: tchiks guitars

Views: 3,598,470

Rating: 4.9433527 out of 5

Keywords: guitar building, guitar making, semi hollow body, semi acoustic build, es 335 build, starfire build, handtool woodworking, luthier, diy guitar, diy semi hollow body, building a semi hollow body guitar, hand carved guitar top, amateur luthier, gibson guitars, gibson ES 335, gibson les paul, seymour duncan, seymour duncan SH JB, guitar full build, how to make a guitar, how to build a guitar

Id: jXdKAwHSe6M

Length: 26min 1sec (1561 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 18 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/trwwhuggwr]

So this is my third guitar build (and 6th stringed instrument build),

Lockdown started in March here in Belgium so at the time I started the build I didn't have any wood at home. I dismantled two shelves and they kept me busy until the lumber store opened again in May. I then bought some mahogany and wenge to finish the build !

This was a very challenging build for me since I never built anything like that before, and I don't think I even played or even held an ES 335 in my entire life !

[u/MassageParlorGuitar]

I’m five minutes into this and I’m fascinated. How many hours would you say you have in the build?

[u/Hotdogcannon]

Wow I thought I sorta knew what I was doing but I learned so much from this! Especially areas in my own builds where I was screwing up - you have some tricks up your sleeve that will help me perfect the next one!

[u/darklink594594]

That wood was wasted as a shelf its gorgeous

[u/mkrnblk]

That was really cool. The only part I was bummed about was when you painted over the headstock. I liked the wood stripes you had going on.