Abstract: A guitar is constructed to have a hollow body and to have a top member that has a pickup mounting portion integrally formed therein. A slot is cut into the pickup support area, and a pickup is received in the slot. Guitar strings are mounted on the guitar and stretched across the pickup which functions as a bridge to define the lower endpoint of the free length of the guitar strings.

Abstract: A guitar is constructed to have a hollow body and to have a top member that has a pickup mounting portion integrally formed therein. A slot is cut into the pickup support area, and a pickup is received in the slot. Guitar strings are mounted on the guitar and stretched across the pickup which functions as a bridge to define the lower endpoint of the free length of the guitar strings.

Abstract: An improved solid body guitar structure wherein the solid body is formed of a combination of balsa wood with sufficient hard wood allied therewith to provide structural rigidity to the instrument. The balsa/hard wood body block is then skinned with selected veneer material on one or more surfaces thereby to render an extremely strong and rigid solid body that is much lessened in weight. Hard wood portions of the body block are relied upon for interconnection to the neck/peghead guitar structures. Further weight relief and acoustical adjustment may be effected by removal of small portions of the hard wood at selected non-stress, low resonance points.