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Building an Etribe Travel Guitar

A long time ago I took some photos of the guitar in its early stages of construction, when I still used actual wood and glue. Links to the photos are at left.

I sold the plans I made in the process of designing this guitar. People bought the plans and built guitars.

But then I changed the plans without building the guitar. This was a mistake, as I later discovered. People stopped buying the plans and I wondered why.

I modeled the guitar in Blender 3D software and discovered that my spur of the moment design change might have made the guitar unbuildable. I thought it would work because of what I did to one of the last bodies I built. I routed it out and then modified the design based on that.

Now I've given that body to a professional guitar builder to put together. This will be the true test. In the meantime, I've modified the plans again, this time based on better data.

I will offer them free here at some point soon.