Cutting the Body of an Electric Guitar

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Frank Pope, FBI Guitars. I'm here on behalf of Expert Village to give you some tips on how to build your own guitar. Now we're going to talk to about how to cut out the shape of the body utilizing the bandsaw. This is our body blank, this is one that is actually going to be used in a real guitar a little later. I'm not going to be cutting it today because I haven't decided what design to use. But what you'll do is, you'll lower the bandsaw and you'll be able to slide this through. It can cut curves. You don't have to be on the line exactly. That's what I want to tell you, cut just outside the line that you've drawn for your design. Make sure you don't bind the blade. When you finish, what you'll end up with is an outline. You have a piece that looks about like this. This is one that a guitar was cut from. Actually the red guitar you saw in the back. This was the original rough cut-out for the body."