Guitar made from recycled wood

This guitar is made from recycled wood purchased at the ReBuilding Center. The sound board is made from old cedar siding. The sides and neck are made from old-growth douglas fir. The back is made from the left-over cedar and fir scraps. The finger board and bridge are made from an old Brazilian Cherry hardwood floor board. If I remember correctly, total cost of the wood was $7. Yes, those are nail-holes on the top and back.

I used a Tacoma-style bracing, done with the old-growth douglas fir.

You'll note that this guitar uses an electric-guitar style neck mount. This worked well, but ended up being more effort than the standard acoustic neck mount.

One of the draw-backs to the Tacoma-style bracing, that I learned the hard way, is that it is not quite as tolerant of abuse. Right after I finished building this guitar, I managed to smash it and put a 8-inch crack in the sound board. In the process of trying to fix that, I managed to get my arm stuck in the sound-hole - resulting in a complete break of the sound board. A little super glue and some patch wood and it was quickly as good-as-new. You can see the crack starting at the bottom of the sound-hole.



Dave Pierce now owns this one.