Guitar Suitcase

Firstly let me just say, I don't believe in ruining good instruments to make arty suitcases. But if like me you come across a run down guitar sitting by the side of the road with fret board barely hanging on, no tuning pegs, an odd paint job and a missing bridge, you have a choice whether to save it from ruin and restore it or save it from ruin and make something else with it.
Also, I have two other guitars, a ukelele, banjo, cajon, stomp boxes, shakers of all sorts, and a cello, so my wife was never going to let me keep it.

What you need:
Short screws (or rivets would be better)
Two hinges,
Wire
A draw handle
Sandpaper
PVA wood glue
A small piece of plywood

Tools used:
A square
A saw
A chisel
Allen keys
A screwdriver
Drill
Drillbits
Pliers (longnosed and flat)
A pencil

This is an interesting step.

There is an easy way and a hard way to do this, it merely depends if you have plans for the neck.
The issue is a piece of metal running down the inside of the neck called the truss rod. This huge bolt helps keep tension on the wood and gives it a nice straight neck.

Not all guitars have them. Some guitars have an hex bolt that you can see on the headstock (where the tuning pegs are) other guitars have them on the inside of the sound hole. As this one in the photo does.

The easy way is to saw through until you hit metal, then change to a hack saw and saw through, then change back to normal and keep going all the way.

The harder way is to undo the hex nut with an Allen Key, cut the neck all the way around the bolt with a wood saw, then pry the two sections apart, pulling the truss rod out of the main body. This is harder, but it gives me a neck for a ukelele or some other musical project.

Now ladies and gentlemen, I will attempt to saw this body in half!

So, I wanted the case to have some depth to it, and decided to make the cut line about 3 cm from the top all the way around (if you don't know what 3 cm is, it's 30mm or 0.03meters. Such a great system! … OK fine! 1.5 inches 4.5 barley corns or 0.125 feet).

The best way to get an even line is to set a square to the right length and sit it on the top of the guitar with the ruler hanging down the side. If you put a pencil at the end of the ruler, you can move the square around the top to get a perfect line all the way around (see the picture if you still don't get it ).

Then out comes the saw!
Use a fine toothed saw to get an even line, let the saw do the work and don't force it. Find a good stable surface to sit the saw on.