An electric guitar can be a rewarding woodworking project that doesn’t require a bunch of experience. Compared to an acoustic guitar, whose body construction and materials vastly affect its ...

In Episode 2, the build gets real! We shape the body, route the cavities, and begin prepping for hardware. Every cut brings us closer to a fully custom electric guitar built from the ground up. #Guita ...

Solid body guitars, that’s your standard no-holes electric are exactly that - dense pieces of solid wood. Semi-hollow body guitars such as Gibson’s ES-335 feature a top, back and sides, but also use a ...

A new body shape with radical contours, custom Fishman pickups, 13 tonal voices, and a floating trem stabilizer headline the Chleo, which ushers in a new era for PRS guitars ...

In 1940, Les Paul mounted strings on solid block of pine to minimize body vibrations on an electric guitar called “The Log.” He made it by literally putting a 4×4 block of wood in the middle ...

The body is three-piece sapele, topped with a flame-maple veneered laminate. The back is curved subtly in both planes and there's a rib-cage contour. The edges have a slight chamfer all the way around ...

1950: Fender Electric Instruments introduces a single- and dual-pickup, solid-body electric guitar. It is named the Esquire, and about 50 are made.