In short, what my pal TerryM had done was take an old full-size acoustic guitar and cut it down to about half it's thickness, add a solid block through the center, electric guitar pickups and some pretty elaborate electronics and make a very sweet looking (and I'm sure great sounding) semi-hollow body, telecaster-like electric guitar for one of his gigging buddies. Thankfully, mine still had a solid neck joint. His neck joint had to be completely redone. My very modest luthier skills wouldn't have been able to over come that issue. My goal was to add a center block and basic Fender Telecaster pickups and electronics. These are the three pieces I ended up with. The center piece was discarded, the back re-used.