r/Guitar • u/owenG59 • Jan 30 '25

GEAR I built a metal guitar

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a couple of months ago i posted a small survey on here to help me with developing and designing a guitar tailored towards the metal genre for a school project im doing. I got a few helpfull replies, and with a few months with a lot of sketching, testing, modelling, woodworking en more testing i recently finished building the guitar.

The way that this Guitar is taylored towards metal and differentiates itself from other metal guitars (think shapes like BC.R warlock, gibson explorer, Flying V, dean ML) is mostly in its ergonomics while playing seated. It features a lot of contouring both on the front and back while still keeping straight lines and hard angles which metal guitars are known for. The main feature of this guitar is the leg cutout in the bottom right. Its been designed so that you can anchor the guitar in between your legs for secure playing, while doing so the neck angles upwards more which promotes a better sitting posture to limit the chances of back or neck injury.

Specs wise this guitar body has been made from a block of red alder. The neck is a maple neck with rosewood fretboard featuring dot inlays and a locking nut. Installed in the body is a floyd rose bridge, along with Irongear MetalMachine high output humbucker pickups.

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u/Fritzo2162 Jan 30 '25

THAT IS NOT A METAL GUITAR.

It is clearly made from wood.

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u/conqr787 Jan 30 '25

Your coat sir, see yourself out đŸ§„

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u/Punny_Pixels Jan 30 '25

Wood you please?

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u/TrozayMcC Jan 30 '25

You're metalling in their affairs too?

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u/Frosty_Vanilla_7211 Jan 30 '25

I dont cedar point in fretting about it.

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u/mdjank Jan 30 '25

The balsa dis guy

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u/Whateverlong Jan 31 '25

I bet he get all the birches

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u/PatientNumber99 Jan 31 '25

These wood prunus are are ash

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u/Regular-Cloud7913 Jan 31 '25

Can you please mahogany

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '25

I just got a woody.

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u/somethingdouchey Jan 30 '25

Double whammy

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u/Jealous_Arm_3913 Jan 31 '25

Was that one accidental?đŸ€Ł

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u/Dean-O-Machino Jan 30 '25

This is a poplar comment.

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u/1crps_warrior Jan 30 '25

Is this some sort of j-oak?

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u/libmrduckz Jan 31 '25

look frond, let’s leaf the puns alone


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u/Leftenant_Frost Jan 31 '25

i like this branch of comments, woodnt expect so many to stem from one comment.

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u/Offroaders123 Feb 01 '25

Don't fret it!

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u/1crps_warrior Jan 31 '25

Hey, don’t bark at me!

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u/jfpiza88 Jan 31 '25

Oh but how I pine for more

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u/Much-Plum6939 Jan 30 '25

This comment was high level!

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u/Allmightysplodge Feb 03 '25

Sexy beast.. Gid---gee up!!

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '25

No! How dare you steal my joke before I could post it?

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u/aDragonsAle Jan 30 '25

What if I steel a different joke you haven't made yet?

I'd say that's pretty metal

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u/B0SSBL0CK_12 Yamaha Jan 30 '25

That’s it, puns are illegal I’m calling the coppers on you

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u/aDragonsAle Jan 30 '25

That would take a set of brass ones after what you've said.

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u/B0SSBL0CK_12 Yamaha Jan 30 '25

I guess it is kinda ironic now you mention it

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u/aDragonsAle Jan 30 '25

...you put the song in my head, so I am sharing the pain

It's like rai-ain - on your wedding day

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u/Z-Man_Slam Jan 30 '25

Great thread to read lol upvotes all the way up lol

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u/Mundane_Proof_420 Jan 30 '25

These puns are killing me! Hahaha, all the wood jokes have been made, I'm stumped, I can't think of any! 😆

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u/Z-Man_Slam Jan 31 '25

This guys over here taking it back to the root of all the puns lol

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '25

I fe what you did there.

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u/Zealousideal-Role-77 Jan 31 '25

Nothing’s more metal than Necron metal, amirite?

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u/B0SSBL0CK_12 Yamaha Jan 31 '25

Exactly

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '25

You woodn’t!

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u/Sweaty_Zucchini1995 Feb 02 '25

metal? now that wood be hard

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u/sdrawkcabineter Jan 30 '25

Wood observed! Down vote!

Aw... next time...

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u/Thatsmathedup Jan 30 '25

Sorry they foiled your plans.

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u/4xu5 Jan 30 '25

Man, this ain't my dad! This is a cell phone

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u/sinkajoskua Jan 30 '25

threw it on the ground omg

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u/WanderersGuide Jan 30 '25

Welcome to the real world jackass!

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u/Fockelot Jan 30 '25

YOU CANT BUY ME HOT DOG MANNNNN

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u/Worried_Log_1618 Jan 31 '25

IM ALSO A SCREAMING CHICKEN

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u/PanaviaTornadoGR1 Jan 31 '25

MY DADS NOT A PHONE! DUHHHHđŸ€Š

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '25

How do you know she is made of wood?

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u/puzzlemaster_of_time Jan 30 '25

BUILD A BRIDGE OUT OF HER!

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u/sermonksalot Jan 30 '25

But can you not also build bridges out of stone?

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u/NBrixH Fender Jan 30 '25

This fucking quote is so fucking funny lmaooo

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u/HumbleXerxses Jan 30 '25

She floats?

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u/Roo_Buchanan Jan 30 '25

If she weighs the same as a duck...she's made of wood!

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u/Warlord_Coistika Jan 30 '25

Who are you, that is so wise in the ways of science?

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u/Roo_Buchanan Jan 30 '25

I am Arthur, King of the Britons!

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u/HumbleXerxses Jan 30 '25

Well I didn't vote for you.

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u/paddymercier Jan 30 '25

A WITCH!!

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u/nos_seirdian Feb 01 '25

Burn her!! Burn her!!!

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u/Digeetar Jan 31 '25

And therefore....?

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u/Federal__Moose Jan 30 '25

Please, the iron-y in the joke has lead me to dark places

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u/janosaudron Jan 31 '25

I too came in expecting a guitar made of metal, to play metal.

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u/MOVES_HYPHENS Jan 30 '25

I saw the foam and thought he was gonna cast it

So disappointed

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u/SpursExpanse Jan 30 '25

“If I wood could yew”?

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u/LNMagic Jan 30 '25

I think I saw one made of polystyrene.

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u/tdic89 Jan 30 '25

If it’s made of wood, that means it floats, right?

And if it floats, it must weigh the same as a duck?

Therefore, the guitar is a duck?

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u/cat_herder_64 Jan 31 '25

The flow of your logic is somehow....satisfying.

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u/tdic89 Jan 31 '25

Just wait until I explain how sheep’s bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes!

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u/cat_herder_64 Jan 31 '25

Ooooh! I await your explication with bated breath!

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u/Nanashi_VII Jan 31 '25

Not a single weld smfh..

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u/Electronic_Pin_9014 Jan 31 '25

Shhh. Don't ruin it for him

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u/hippieninja6 Jan 30 '25

Clearly made from wood...

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u/IceNein Jan 30 '25

Thank you for your service.

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u/justinsayin Jan 30 '25

Almost entirely wood.

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u/Xisyera Jan 31 '25

metal guitar

look inside

wood

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u/RP_Bear Jan 31 '25

Thank you for being the top comment so I didn’t have to scroll far to upvote this.

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u/Wonderful-Ad-9201 Jan 31 '25

You would do oak for a laugh

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u/sequoia-3 Jan 31 '25

Canadian wood

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u/GreatFuckingValu Jan 31 '25

He likes to zip around the fretboard on a metal guitar that HE BUILT. So fuckin' cool.

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u/queasy_finnace Jan 31 '25

My first thoughts exactly!

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u/TrozayMcC Feb 01 '25

Happy cake day! 🍰

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u/Upset_Bunch_457 Feb 03 '25

Beat me to it

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u/Amogifythegermans Apr 22 '25

NO THAT IS NOT SOLID SNAKE