First photo of skip (dumpster) guitar build.

I'm well aware a blog without photos isn't of much interest so I quickly laid out the parts, now I can see how it looks and also check to see where the bridge will end up, which looks fine. If this were a standard build I'd be pretty near finishing by this stage but it's cold and about to snow and the workshop is a total mess! Still it's something to look forward too once the weather warms up a little! 

 

PS

I've just found this on youtube and it has allayed my fears about the bridge being near the edge of the box  and encourages me to carry on building. I'm hoping it does only sound good bcz of this guys amazing playing though!

The neck is now all cleaned up and ready for a new body! I'm thinking about that mahogany box I started on back in spring last year but it''s so short it would mean that the bridge would only be inches from the edge of the box which can't be good for the acoustics, but then again it does look cool and if it sounds good for practice (after all the sound hole is facing you at the top) and i can plug the thing in as I have kept the under bridge piezo pickup and preamp. I know whan this project will get finished though, the weather is really cold so my workshop is unusable until spring, the neck was done at work in my breaks but I'm not sure if I should take the whole instrument in there.
Sorry there aren't any pictures yet, here is the box as it was from last year.

Off with it's neck!

Well I could have made it a new solid wood top but I'm not much of a fan of  bowl back guitars and don't really want another regular instrument. So off came the neck! Taking a hack saw to a guitar body some how didn't seem right but I have plans to mate it to a mahogany box I have been meaning to make an instrument from for some time to make a large size cigar box type instrument. I've no idea what it will sound like being all mahogany as well!
I must say I'm not impressed with Tanglewood's building techniques! The neck tenon is glued ...or should I say cemented it with a glue - or filler more like car body filler! I can image them plonking the necks into the over sized sockets  bodies on the production line with a large blob of gloop in the hole!
Next i need to clean the wood from the tenon and remove the bridge.

Could you walk past?

Could you walk past a guitar in a skip? (Dumpster US), I couldn't though my wife wasn't impressed! It's Ovation copy, a Tanglewood Odyssey in perfect condition, apart from one important detail, not single dent scratch or ding as if someone bought it with the intention to learn and lost interest.........then lent it against a radiator and let the top warp , you could drive a bus under those strings! SO not such a find, but the neck is dead straight and I have a plan to build a guitar box like guitar and I think the mahogany neck with suit the box I have got , and I have the electrics too!  More soon!

An image of an identical one found on the net

Photos of the finished Flying V

More V photos.