Nathan T.
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This semester, 15 honor students at SAU took creativity and craftsmanship to the next level, designing and building custom electric guitars from blocks of wood. Starting with blank DIY kits, they shaped, sanded, assembled, and painted each instrument by hand.
Now, they’re ready to share their work.
If you’re in or around Magnolia, Arkansas, we’d love for you to attend the Electric Guitar Exhibit on Monday, May 5th, at the Brinson Fine Art Gallery for a special one-day showcase. The exhibit will feature all student-built guitars, along with a live band performance using the very instruments created in class.
It’s a celebration of hands-on learning, artistic expression, and serious musical talent. Don’t miss it!
📍 Location: Brinson Fine Art Gallery, SAU
📅 Date: Monday, May 5th
🎸 Live Music: Featuring guitars made in the class
Not local? Stay tuned, we’ll be sharing some of the completed DIY guitars on our social media accounts.
To learn more go to – Electric Guitar Exhibit.
Finishing is the one guitar-building step you cannot undo. So Steve Madden practiced on six plywood bodies first, then gave his quilted maple kit five thin coats of Tru-Oil. Here is his method, and how he fixed the binding when it turned yellow.
Doug DeLuca and his sixteen year old son turned a bare quilted maple top into a deep blue burst, and the figure still reads through the darkest part of the rim. Here is the dye versus pigment decision that made it work, why the edges are the darkest part of the guitar, and what you can copy on your own figured top.
Christoph and his son Fionn wanted a deep even black on an open-grained mahogany body with the figure still showing through, and the pores kept drying lighter than the surface. Follow the build from the bare kit to the finished bass, and see how they diagnosed it and what you can copy from their approach.
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