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Mr Bones · 12-08-2007, 08:36 PM

Im not sure this is the right area for this, so flick move or delete if needed.

Im already into this project a little, having cut out the body and top already, but better to start late than never I guess. With all the buzz around chambered guitars these days, and since I won't be buying any guitars for about 18 more years

, I'm going to try and build a chambered LP-style guitar. I didn't want to use one of my one-piece blanks, since so much of that wood would be coming out. I picked up some nice light sapele a while back after reading some threads about sapele possibly being used on some early goldtops. It was only 1" thick, so I glued it up to 2". I decided to keep the body thickness at 1 15/16" to make the chambers have more volume. The body and top were bandsawn out, then routed to the final dimensions with an MDF template and router. That is as far as I got by the beginning of these pictures.

One side of the body was rough, so I took 1/16" off. I don't own a drum sander, nor a planner that is wide enough for an LP body, so I built a quick jig to thickness. This same jig works great for getting the neck angle onto the body, but more about that later. Here is the body being planned:

Sanded and marked (this seems simple that one should mark front and back, but is an easy mistake to route the wrong side. I speak from experience on this one

):

Body and new MFD template marked for cutting.

Inside chambering marked on template:

Jigsawing out the template:

12-08-2007, 08:36 PM	#1 (permalink)
Mr Bones V.I.P. Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: 225 Parsons Street Posts: 1,024 Thanks: 2 Thanked 20 Times in 7 Posts	Building a Chambered LP Im not sure this is the right area for this, so flick move or delete if needed. Im already into this project a little, having cut out the body and top already, but better to start late than never I guess. With all the buzz around chambered guitars these days, and since I won't be buying any guitars for about 18 more years , I'm going to try and build a chambered LP-style guitar. I didn't want to use one of my one-piece blanks, since so much of that wood would be coming out. I picked up some nice light sapele a while back after reading some threads about sapele possibly being used on some early goldtops. It was only 1" thick, so I glued it up to 2". I decided to keep the body thickness at 1 15/16" to make the chambers have more volume. The body and top were bandsawn out, then routed to the final dimensions with an MDF template and router. That is as far as I got by the beginning of these pictures. One side of the body was rough, so I took 1/16" off. I don't own a drum sander, nor a planner that is wide enough for an LP body, so I built a quick jig to thickness. This same jig works great for getting the neck angle onto the body, but more about that later. Here is the body being planned: Sanded and marked (this seems simple that one should mark front and back, but is an easy mistake to route the wrong side. I speak from experience on this one ): Body and new MFD template marked for cutting. Inside chambering marked on template: Jigsawing out the template: Last edited by Mr Bones; 12-09-2007 at 09:34 PM.