Making hollow body guitar.

A very heavy, over 5kg and dark sounding guitar needed some weight relief and tone improvement.. Chambering the body was a right solution. i managed to reduce 1.25 kg of its weight. The top is made of Canadian splated maple leftovers which results whit brighter sound and better sustain......All in all it's a huge success.

Artist: Igor Stanoeski

[CarlWinter-oyuf]

Nice grained thin piece of spalted maple ---certainly give a lovely finish ---steam bending too ---great job !

[manicdonkey]

These thin tops are underrated in guitar building. Even a thin veneer of heavily figured wood goes a long way to transforming the looks of an instrument. Well done!

[BenjaminSteber]

Steamin with the iron is a stroke of genius.

[bobbyb]

Very nice. Have a Mexican Strat that weighs a ton and I've been wanting to do the same with it. And a tummy cut. Great video

[JamesVytas]

Very cool. Love that you just oil finished the wood. Not thick sealers.

[stevencochrane]

Nicely done sir, good looking guitar!

[ianmorales]

Gorgeous build, my friend. Love the natural finish—glad you didn’t paint it. And the fact that it’s only 1, 947 grams is insane! That’s a little more than half the weight of my Strat, at almost 3, 500 grams. Bravo friend, bravo.

[r.y.]

Looks awesomely better, sounds deadly beautiful 🎉

[titmusspaultpaul]

What a fantastic upgrade. Looks great.

[timhallas]

Nice natural wood look. Glad to see that you didn't paint it. Reminds me of an old 60s Peavey.

[ChadwickRider]

Looks great... and I bet it's way more comfortable.

[JamesVytas]

I’ve always been curious how they chambered those f hole strats and now I know how it’s done.

[juanufba]

Muy buen trabajo! Cuánto amor y cuánta paciencia... Felicitaciones!

[BenjaminGonzalez-wvcy]

Definitely gave it a better cosmetic look from the original one, and it sounds great!

[MrJackrockerman]

What a great sound you got..
The notes all bloom .❤️🙌

[stringybarkin]

Would love to hear a comparison of before and after

[XLBiker]

Looks very nice. After all that work I would've splurged on a new, aged pick guard that didn't have that white circle on it.

[claudevieaul]

Looks good!
But after adding a top like that, I would either go for a back route, or a transparent pickguard 😀

Saving weight can be great, I'm sure - but I'm more concerned about neck dive.
I like the total of body and neck (and hardware etc obviously) to be in balance, rather than desperately saving 100gr left and right...

[The..Butterfly..Effect]

turned out good - when it started, I thought we were headed for disaster

[paulraffles]

Very nice. But i was wondering if it is experiencing neck dive? Since it has lost some amount of weight. Or did you also change the hardware on the neck? Ultra lite tuner maybe?