I also had a really beautiful Cedar board I picked up at Home Depot. It was one of those "I can't believe I paid a buck for this" boards.
So I sliced up my Home Depot board & planed it down for back and sides.
I took a saw to the crappy experimental guitar and managed to salvage most of the Spruce sound board.
A couple of hours later, I had a shiny new guitar.
I've been working on a classical guitar, so I used that mold for this one. As hinted above, I still didn't have enough Spruce salvaged to cover the smaller classical sized body, so I used some of the scrap from the back/sides to fill in the upper bout. The look is quite unique.
I also had to sand the top down again, the end thickness is about 2mm (30% thinner than "normal"). The bracing is Spruce & a Tacoma style pattern was used.
A little bit a Cherry for a bridge, with a Cedar veneer to help it match up visually, rounds out the wood.
The tone is bright and clear. Given that it is 95% Cedar, you can really "feel" it through the neck and the back.
Visually, it is so bright that it will be challenging to get a realistic photograph - especially on an over-cast day like today.
Jeff Elsasser now owns this one.
