Stack and glue several deck planks to create a solid skate wood sandwich by using a lot of force. You don’t have a hydraulic press? No problem. Simply build a mighty, steezy-squeezy contraption with little effort and even on a tight budget.

Once you’ve kept the stacks of decks in the press for a day, you can release them from captivity. Now, planarize the resulting sandwich and, voilà, here is your psychedelic wood plank.

Build a mold to layout your design and pour a bunch of epoxy resin over it. Once the result sets, it’ll be tough as a rock and clear like water. At least that’s the theory.

You should handle epoxy with care. Even with most things considered, you may just end up in a dark basement fighting bubbles with fire.

A slam will force you to think about getting up and best case it’ll teach you how to roll away on your next attempt. You can quite literally roll away from a sketchy epoxy trick using a router!

With all layers ready, compose them into one last sandwich with a liberal amount of glue in between. Under a lot of pressure, let it cure for a day.

Draw, saw and route along the outlines of a guitar body template. Just make sure the width of whatever model you choose fits your body blank, duh…

Carve an arm- or chestrest into your guitar body using a fan grinder. The layers of color you dig through will tell you stories. Uncover them and get carried away!

Neck, pickups, bridge, hardware, electronics, you’ll have to make some tough choices. Study your options and align them with your aspired sound, visual concept and crafting skill.