Firebird Build

My through-neck guitar build in the style of a Gibson Firebird

The ‘Wings’

OK, time for the ‘bird to get wings… Another length of plank: The body on a real Firebird tapers from the centre to the edge. Not everybody seems to bother with this, but I wanted to replicate it, as in my eyes, it is important to the aesthetics of the guitar. I thought it would…

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