Sure, the last guitar that I made was “custom”, but I didn’t start from scratch. A lot of the legwork was done before I touched it.

I decided while waiting for the finish to cure on the kit guitar, to start on the next one.

I don’t have an exact plan on this one, I’ll just play it by ear. I wont make it a habit of winging every build, but I will be tooling up during the process of making this guitar, so I cant make a lot of decisions anyway.

This stage of the process required me to purchase some hand planes. I bought some cheapo Stanley planes at Lowes. I cut the shape of the guitar with my electric jigsaw. I also made a make-shift shooting board so i could glue it together.

Shooting the sides of this thing was a huge learning process. I still dont think that i have it…

I made some attempts at thicknessing the back with the plane. As you can see, it’s horribly mangled. I’m not sure what to do just yet. I think I’ll just sand it until its un-mangled. Then i get to decide what to put as the marriage strip…

-Marcus