The body slab is now ready for shaping.

5-7-21

Over the past few days I have prepared the slab which I will next shape into something that can be called an electric guitar. I cut up some of my 2 inch thick walnut and purple heart, as well as some thinner maple lumber. Around this step I noticed it would look better with a third maple strip, splitting up the purple heart in 2. Next step is to glue em up and let everything sit overnight. Once the glue was nice and dry I went ahead and cleaned up the dried glue bits and flattened out the slab in areas where transitions between woods weren’t smooth.