homemade guitar

UPDATED OCTOBER 15 2008 Im planning on building another guitar soon and this time i will document how i'm making it and i will make sure to capture as much of it as i can on video. So, sometime this winter expect a how-to sort of thing! --- DESCRIPTION: I made this guitar because ive always wanted an explorer, and i didnt want to settle for an epiphone, but i didnt want to way $1000 for a gibson either, so i made one. I wanted the guitar to sound like Billy Gibbons signature gretsch model, which is "heavily chambered," so i did the same. Sorta too bad that you cant see the inside cus thats where most of my hard work went lol. I made the guitar out of alder. I hollowed out (or Heavily chambered as i like to say) the back and glued an alder top on. The back and top are both made up of 3-4 pieces of alder, as my woodshop stock room had alot of warped pieces, and my teacher advised me to cut the wood with the grain and glue the pieces together. I used my first guitar's neck, a squier strat neck, and cut off that weird curve shape. I used a gretsch wraparound tailpiece i got off ebay and a used unidentifiable seymour duncan pickup i got at a pawn shop for $20. The one knob, a volume control, somehow got put in backwards so a counter clockwise turn will turn it up. I painted the guitar with many coats of primer, and then black spray paint, and then a silver coat on the top. The top bout of the guitar was angled that way to keep the strap from falling off because i was too cheap ...