can you glue pieces of wood together to make a guitar body?
I was thinking of making a striped pattern of purple heart and curly maple for the body. Would it be durable, if glued and clamped?
Yes you can. The vast majority of guitar and bass bodies are made of two
or more pieces of wood glued and clamped. I personally have a Tele body
that looks like a butcher block, it's made of four different kinds of woods.
Purpleheart and curly maple sounds like it should look cool, especially if you can manage to dye the maple some kind of yellow or amber.