So this is my latest build, a telecaster based guitar.
Body and neck is AGBA
Fretboard is Bloodwood
Pickup covers are Olivewood
Body stripe and headstock back veneer is Pau Ferro
Knobs are Pau Ferro with olive woo tops
and the backcover has a piece of IPE(holding the strings)
Pickups are Tonerider
Here are some photos of this build:
First steps are to remove excess wood and get the basic shape.
I did this using a handsaw, a chisel and a hammer :)
Fine tuning the shape with sandpaper. In this fase of the build I use a belt sander belt instead of regular sand paper. They just last longer on this rough work.
The carving was done with the use of an angle grinder.
Cavities were drilled with the drill press and the material removed with a chisel.
THe neck was rough shaped with the angle grinder, and refined with the belt sander
My amazing thickness sander :)
Radius on the fretboard.
Making the neck more accessible using a rasp and the angle grinder.
And then I just have the almost final photo:
Cheers
Comments
pretty cool man totally dig it , nice work
Monteray I cannot do a video this week but it is all similar to this one.
Many thanks for the kind comments!
It took about a month to make, counting with all the mistakes repair/redo :)
I don´t have many jigs (yet!) but that drill powered thickness sander is quite used. I will need to make a bigger one.
Paulo,
That is really nice work and you obviously have a lot of patience. I particularly like your documenting the build with photos, I am interested in your jigs too.
Keep up the good work and keep posting info on your builds. I work with limited power tools on my sailboat and am always interested in making jigs to make life easier and building faster and more accurate. I built a "fret end bevel sanding block yesterday.
Very nice.
nice going
yumble pie ;-)