Building A Guitar

[Duane]

Has anyone tried building a guitar from scratch? I bought a maple neck and the rest I'm pretty much trying myself. I will eventually compile all the pics on a geocities web page documenting the whole deal. It's a cool way for my son and I to spend some time together and get a few slivers. BTW I don't know how to play guitar at all....I just like trying to build one, my son is the player.

[Zrak0z]

I have wanted to build one for a long time, but I don't have the tools nor the skill to do it It would be a great feeling playing music with something that one self has created.

[Metallifold]

oooooh. That's fucking nice dude. What mics are you using?

[Duane]

I'm actually using all Fender OEM parts, well that's what they tell me on Ebay anyways. I really, really enjoy doing this building stuff. I may decide to learn guitar myself someday...who knows. But the building is very time consuming but it brings my son and myself even closer, so that's cool. I have some pics from the beginning but nothing really new....here ya go.

Rough body and neck layout.

http://s162.photobucket.com/albums/t255 ... =Neck1.jpg


Rough body

http://s162.photobucket.com/albums/t255 ... 0_1356.jpg

Not much to see yet....more to come.

[Duane]

Here's a pic of the guitar kind of almost ready to go sans wiring and paint.

http://s162.photobucket.com/albums/t255 ... 0_1375.jpg

And here's one that shows off the nice grain in the wood and my son's super sanding job...it's a little blurry so you can't see the imperfections.

http://s162.photobucket.com/albums/t255 ... 0_1378.jpg

[Zrak0z]

Looks great. It looks a bit more "pointy" than the average telecaster- body.

[Duane]

It's a little different, done freehand....the headstock is a little different also.

[Zrak0z]

Yeah, I'm looking forward to building one myself, when I have the time and tools.

[Duane]

Well this is a great site to read about guitar building.


http://www.projectguitar.com/

You can go to the interactive forum and read some really cool stuff. They didn't like my signature and made me change it, someone complained about the "swears"...it's the same signature as used to be below.

[Duane]

Not sure if anyone is looking at these things but here's the lovely blue the guitar is going to be.

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t255 ... sGood1.jpg

I think it's pretty damn nice.