A Fender-branded Telecaster-shaped chopping board exists. It costs $32. A builder called Not A Luthier bought one and converted it into a playable electric guitar, logo intact.
The board is laminated strips, likely bamboo or rubberwood, glued together and thinner than a real Telecaster body. That thickness gap required custom spacers under the bridge and pickups. The build follows standard electric guitar construction otherwise, except for one drilling mistake that required fabricating a wooden plug to cover the hole.
The full video documents every step of the conversion and is worth watching for the problem-solving alone, not just the result. The guitar produces sound. Whether it produces good sound is left as an exercise for people who actually play guitar.
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