Two or three peices of quality, figured American Rock Maple wood to make up a minimum size of 555mm x 400mm x 50mm
This wood “shouts”. It is loud with a strong upper midrange, bright highs, and tapered off but very tight lows. A pickup that produces good lows will find them in a Hard Maple body, but they will be tight and will not interact with a loud half stack.
NOTE: Guitar makers traditionally use more than one piece of wood in construction unless the guitar is of very high quality. A single piece of specially dried and selected wood would be high grade and much more expensive. Because wood is a natural material it has flaws and imperfectionsm and a tendancy to warp (bow) - the larger the piece, the larger the warp. To reduce the chance of these flaws spoiling the guitar during machining / finishing, several smaller pieces are selected and combined to give the final size thereby keeping costs low while ensuring a pleasing finish. In most cases just two pieces are supplied and these are combined to make the final body.
The process of guitar building is explained in many books which we can help you with if necessary.
