You might be driving down the road, see a pile of 2 by 4’s that someone put by the curb and think nothing of it. I think “I’ll make a Flying V guitar from those!” After removing all the nails and scraping away bits of insulation, I cut and glued these slats together into a rough Flying V shape. Since I don’t have a planer or a router, it is not super flat, and I smoothed out the edges with a belt sander. I had purchased a set with two humbuckers, tone and volume knobs and selector switch, ditched the pickguard that came with it and made one from 1/8″ plywood. The fret markers are just spray paint. I used the lower pitched strings from an Ernie Ball Mammoth Slinky pack to get a loooow sound. This is a guitar for playing Doom Metal exclusively.
The finished product
Raw materials, plus the template I made
Rough shape. Everything was cut by hand
This is the kit I used, minus the pickguard
Putting together the electronics
Lining the electronics cavities with copper tape to reduce hum. The tape was then grounded to the bridge.
Pickguard and electronics final assembly
In hindsight the string angle here is too steep. You can see the low string doesn’t want to bend that much