Another hobby of mine: building guitars

[markbt73]

I've been into electric guitars about as long as I've been into RC. I got my first guitar for Chistmas 1988, and have owned about 25 since then. I've always tinkered with them, upgrading pickups and hardware, refinishing bodies, etc, but in recent years I've started building them from kits. It seems like one guitar a year is my building pace.

My first attempt, a Telecaster from a Grizzly Industries kit:


Last year's creation, a P-Bass (now sold):


And my newest arrival:


I had a 1971 Strat in college that I got in pieces, and slapped back together with whatever hardware I could find. I worked on it a bit at a time over the years, then had to sell it to make rent. So now that I'm not broke anymore, I got the parts to re-create it, the way it should have been. Ash body, no-stripe maple neck, vintage-style Alnico pickups, mid-grade hardware (not the cheap stuff they give you in kits, but cheaper than real Fender parts). No, it won't be an original, but who cares? If you make something, it's way more "yours" than if you buy it anyway.

[THEYTOOKMYTHUMB]

Very cool. I'd love to build them, but I'd be happy just to play one. Damn a.d.d. There are quite a few guitar enthusiasts on here that will appreciate what you're doing. Nice work!

[MelvinsArmy]

Very cool! Have you ever carved out a body or a neck before? I think it would be cool to make distortion boxes and amplifiers.

I've got a Gibson SG 61 RI, an Electrical Guitar Company King Buzzo Standard and an early G&L SB-2 bass. I only started playing a couple years back so I'm not very good, but it's fun.