Carving Up A Walnut Guitar Body

For my Walnut body, I decided to add a nice carve to the top edge. I used a half round Japanese Iwasaki file to do all of the work. It took about 30 minutes and a lot of elbow grease.

Routing Three Envirocaster Bodies

Yesterday I cut out three Envirocaster bodies. Today I routed pockets and drilled the bridge and neck mounting holes. I should have taken a photo of all the wood chips and dust I generated!

The body in the center is American Walnut while the other two are Alder with Maple caps.

Now comes the fun part: sanding and finishing.