When cutting down the lower part of the guitar body you will find you are exposing the area routed out for the tone pots.
To cover this routed hole I glued a piece onto the lower part of the body. The cut the final shape when it was dry. Wood glue is very strong and as long as you leave enough contact area you can make any shape you please this way.
As I was going for a small size for travelling my design is very minimal.
Improvements
I wish I had made a better shape for resting on my knee. I may go and glue a new peice of wood onto the body below the neck, to stop it sliding off my knee.
Secondly I plan to take the tuning heads off the neck and onto the body. Etribe style. Presently they are causing the head to dip down.
This will be my next design. Possibly basing it on on a Les Paul style bridge. But I also have some ideas of how to rework the Stratocaster bridge. The Stratocaster design takes the strings through the body and this will cause too much tension on the strings. But this design will be for a future blog.
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