In the mean time I've already completed the next project and I've started another one that will be done this weekend. I just haven't had the urge to share anything lately. Strange how the brain works. For months there is nothing and then today lets show 'em what I got... I blame all this on my ADHD! I love it and I hate it at the same time. Oh well.
So there is A LOT of news in our life and big changes coming soon... and I mean real soon. But more on that with the next project. (which will be soon) Now to this project:
My good friend and ex band member Spook inspired me to build my first guitar cab which is the first post ever on this blog. He actually got me started on blogspot. Way back he used to come into Evans shop after-hours and work on his guitars while Evan and I would work on our personal furinture projects. Now 6 years later he's got his own business and makes guitars for people from CA to Australia. Long story short... my turn to build a guitar. It's been on my mind for a loooong time and that time has come. So I decided to make a Fender style Telecaster for my sons 7th birthday. For about a month or two I did all the research I could on building guitars. Especially Telecasters. From Google to Stewmac to Borders and Ron Kirns detailed Tele build! Give me anything you got on that subject. And last but not least... the most useful and important... my boy Spook. I can't tell you how many times I called him to milk his brain. It reminds me of the time I used to call Kel from the beer store in Berkeley at midnight and ask him why my cooled wort wouldn't drain from my boil kettle! He just like Spook always helped me out with his personal tips and tricks! I myself find great satisfactory in passing along what I've learned over the years and I know spook does too, but a few times I could tell it was a little much;-) If I was going to put all this time and effort into a project I wanted to do it right! There are so many new tools and techniques that come into play when building a guitar. There are so many new things I learned and also learned how not to do. The internet is a wonderful research tool no questions asked, but if it wouldn't have been for Spook this build would not of turned out the way it did!
So with all this long bla bla bla here are a few pics from the raw blank to the finished guitar. I did not document this build just because I was so focused on doing it right I didn't even think about taking pictures. I did mess up on the bridge pickup rout but other than that I'm happy. The next one is for me:-)
The neck is leveled and crowned, finished with nitro and the body is mahogany with a maple strip and curly 1/4" maple top. Finish is Urethane. Pickups are Ken Armstrong and Dimazio DP381. She still needs a final setup and then it's in the case for Max to unpack on his birthday:-) Here is the blank it started from to the final guitar. This took a long time:
