oceanruckus
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This guitar was a dream...now its reality.
I've wanted an electric guitar for awhile now, but I never thought I could afford one...so I built it instead. The body was fully designed, constructed, and finished by me. I drew the design out on a napkin, then made a template for it on some wood. The wood for the body is walnut and spalted maple. The neck is something that I was not comfortable trying to build, so Warmoth provided the neck. This is my second build...my first is a bass with Z-body and Warmoth neck. I did everything...wiring, finish, construction...except the neck on this build.
Here are the specs:
Neck: One piece goncalo alves, Telecaster construction, poly finish on the headstock with raw finish on fingerboard and back of neck, fatback contour.
Body: Spalted maple over walnut (wood from ebay), semi-hollowbody construction, sculpted neck joint, body finished with zpoxy, shellac, and Deft rattlecan (gloss). Neck pocket made to fit Tele style necks.
Stuff: Bone nut, Gotoh mini locking tuners, Warmoth pickguard cut by me, Bill Lawrence (Wilde Pickups) L-90 pickups, Schaller roller bridge with homemade piezo pickup/preamp with separate jack, mag pu's wired vol vol -> 3way switch ->master q filter -> master tone. Piezo vol pot also acts as a master guitar kill switch.
Its been awhile since I've posted anything, but I couldn't help it because I am so proud of my guitar and what I was able to do. There will be more!
I've wanted an electric guitar for awhile now, but I never thought I could afford one...so I built it instead. The body was fully designed, constructed, and finished by me. I drew the design out on a napkin, then made a template for it on some wood. The wood for the body is walnut and spalted maple. The neck is something that I was not comfortable trying to build, so Warmoth provided the neck. This is my second build...my first is a bass with Z-body and Warmoth neck. I did everything...wiring, finish, construction...except the neck on this build.
Here are the specs:
Neck: One piece goncalo alves, Telecaster construction, poly finish on the headstock with raw finish on fingerboard and back of neck, fatback contour.
Body: Spalted maple over walnut (wood from ebay), semi-hollowbody construction, sculpted neck joint, body finished with zpoxy, shellac, and Deft rattlecan (gloss). Neck pocket made to fit Tele style necks.
Stuff: Bone nut, Gotoh mini locking tuners, Warmoth pickguard cut by me, Bill Lawrence (Wilde Pickups) L-90 pickups, Schaller roller bridge with homemade piezo pickup/preamp with separate jack, mag pu's wired vol vol -> 3way switch ->master q filter -> master tone. Piezo vol pot also acts as a master guitar kill switch.
Its been awhile since I've posted anything, but I couldn't help it because I am so proud of my guitar and what I was able to do. There will be more!
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