Handmade guitars
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One of my old hobbies - making guitars. Click on the thumbnails to see a larger picture.
The first two pictures are the first, second, and third guitars that I made. They are maple neck and ash body, maple neck and walnut body, and maple/purple heart neck and ash body respectively.
The next picture is the fifth guitar that I made - it's purple heart/cherry neck and cherry body, half hollow body. I made that for an old friend who has since departed. It has Seymour Duncan single coils and a DiMarzio humbucker. The next seven pictures are of a strat copy that I made for a friend. It is maple/purple heart neck and cherry body. He liked the mid 70s headstock but I made it neck-through with a headstock angle, recessed Floyd-Rose tremolo, Sperzel locking tuners and, if I recall correctly, DiMarzio humbuckers.
The last two pictures are of my sixth and (probably) final guitar. This is the one I use now. It is walnut/teak neck and walnut body, half hollow body, with Schaller Golden 50 humbuckers, piezo acoustic pickups in the bridge saddles, a Roland GR9 synthesizer pickup between the bridge and the bridge pickup, and Schaller locking tuners.
All of the dark fingerboards are rosewood and the one light fingerboard is maple. I did all of the inlay work and fret work myself. I don't do this anymore since Katrina took most of my tools. It's really not too hard to make electric guitars. The one indispensable item is a 6 inch or better jointer/planer. I learned how to do this from a book called Make Your Own Electric Guitar by Melvyn Hiscock. It's available from Stewart MacDonald Guitar Shop Supply (the place to buy everything you need for making and repairing guitars).
The first two pictures are the first, second, and third guitars that I made. They are maple neck and ash body, maple neck and walnut body, and maple/purple heart neck and ash body respectively.
The next picture is the fifth guitar that I made - it's purple heart/cherry neck and cherry body, half hollow body. I made that for an old friend who has since departed. It has Seymour Duncan single coils and a DiMarzio humbucker. The next seven pictures are of a strat copy that I made for a friend. It is maple/purple heart neck and cherry body. He liked the mid 70s headstock but I made it neck-through with a headstock angle, recessed Floyd-Rose tremolo, Sperzel locking tuners and, if I recall correctly, DiMarzio humbuckers.
The last two pictures are of my sixth and (probably) final guitar. This is the one I use now. It is walnut/teak neck and walnut body, half hollow body, with Schaller Golden 50 humbuckers, piezo acoustic pickups in the bridge saddles, a Roland GR9 synthesizer pickup between the bridge and the bridge pickup, and Schaller locking tuners.
All of the dark fingerboards are rosewood and the one light fingerboard is maple. I did all of the inlay work and fret work myself. I don't do this anymore since Katrina took most of my tools. It's really not too hard to make electric guitars. The one indispensable item is a 6 inch or better jointer/planer. I learned how to do this from a book called Make Your Own Electric Guitar by Melvyn Hiscock. It's available from Stewart MacDonald Guitar Shop Supply (the place to buy everything you need for making and repairing guitars).