Wood has arrived!

The wood for the guitar body has arrived! This is a block of US Swamp Ash, as mentioned in a previous post.



The tight swirls in the grain will look great once finished, as well as providing a good tone wood.



The quest to find a bandsaw I can borrow has been completed (Thanks Paul!) so this should be cut out in the next couple of days. Bandsaw's are expensive and this job should only take 2 minutes, so it seems ridiculous to purchase one for a couple of minutes use.



Also today arrived my first woodshaping tool, a spokeshave.



This tool planes wood a small amount at a time for the curves all around the edge of the guitar body.

Unfortunately I managed to order the wrong one so a replacement has been ordered. I need a spokeshave with a curved base, and this one is straight... So not good for round edges!

Next update should have the guitar body shape cut out

- Lewis