Olly wrote:Alun - that is cool. I would love to have built my own guitar - how long did this end up taking and did you have to use specialist tools?
Thanks Olly, It took about three months on and off, I had no specialist tool's, just a hand saw, hacksaw, electric drill, wood chisel, and a couple of screwdrivers,
Oh and a soldering iron, I have built other electric guitars prior to this one, but this is probably the best,
The neck came from a very early Japanese guitar, of which the name is long forgotten, it may have been an Orbit
Anyway I shaved it right down to fit my hands, and dressed the frets almost flat with a file and oil stone, and reshaped the headstock,
The single coil is off a Kay, and the twin coil from an Axe guitar, I routed out for the p/u's with a chisel and filled in around them with a soundproof sponge, there is virtually no acoustic sound, It weighs about the same as a L.P. and is very well balanced, It does play and sound nice, I'm very pleased I built it.
I didn't get where I am today,
by being somewhere else.