My light weight practice guitar weights just a hair above 3 lbs. About as light as I could reasonably make it.Did not concern myself about finishing, jut two cans of paint I had laying around.
This one I started a long time ago and stopped when I found I could not play it for any length of time as the body edge set off my pain issues. Then I found I could play a Strat styled guitar with bevels. Did not have the original finish so I just slapped some clear on where I did the body cuts. It already weighs 4 lbs without the bridge and pickups. The square thing is for a dummy coil to (hopefully) cancel out hum while playing single coil. With the bigger area as compared to the pickup area the wire can have less turns and should lose less highs than a regular humbucker.
That is pine also, the neck is poplar with a maple fretboard. It was a nice 2x10, took a while finding it. I have another Tele shape cut out, this one has wood I should have saved for an acoustic but at that time I did not know you could build one yourself. I glued two layers together, it is a four piece. Another body I have out of pine below it. I wonder where that one is?
Have been cleaning up other projects. Made up a 2x12 cabinet, grill cloth onto a few others. Building a mini combo amp with an 8" speaker. The size of a Fender 600 (Champ) amp. A chassis I had was a little big for it but I have been known to stuff 10 lbs into 5 lb bags. Will be a 15W amp, thinking EL84’s for output tubes. Will be a circuit similar to a '59 Bassman. Way more power than the speaker can take but I am thinking of using it as a head when necessary.
