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Walking The Plank
On one of the Forums, I had seen one of the Cigar Box 3 string Guitar builders use a plank of 4x2 timber to form the body of a lap steel...
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Jul 24, 20182 min read
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A Tail of Two Tailpieces
I have been having a fair degree of success with Stratocaster builds of late and, apart from the neck set, one of the key components is a...
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Jul 23, 20182 min read
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First Tele out of the Traps
From the Country Club batch, the first out of the Traps is a Tele which is now complete - a very nice Black Bound Body from a Left Handed...
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Jul 22, 20181 min read
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All Strung Out
Rewiring an Archtop guitar is a bit like keyhole surgery - something I was supposed to have for a routine Op, but things changed a bit,...
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Jul 20, 20182 min read
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Harmony Restored
But not Peace as this one is a Real Rocker. This is a return to Lemmy's Harmony Meteor I wrote about in the Senior Interlude Post...
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Jul 18, 20182 min read
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Like a Visit to the Hygenist
Having collected our parts, we started knocking the components into shape - first up the necks. A large collection of six necks all in...
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Jul 17, 20181 min read
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The Boys are in Trouble Already
What can I say ........... So having a Quorum of surviving members of the Country Club, we had embarked on a summer Project to build a...
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Jun 22, 20182 min read
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Scratchplates
Playing catch up on a number of unfinished builds and starting a new one or two seems to be the order of the day at the moment. The Black...
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Jun 19, 20182 min read
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An Acoustic Interlude
So back at the office where all of the Amp and Pedalboard builds happen, mainly because I can make some real noise there, I came across...
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Jun 11, 20181 min read
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The Country Club Rides Again
Way way back in the depths of my Misspent Youth, it was my Honor to have served as a member of the Country Club. This most exclusive of...
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Jun 6, 20181 min read
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The (almost) Gibson Brothers
So here are the three Gibson (half) brothers - none of them are pure Gibson but each on has a little bit of Gibson in them. From Left to...
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May 15, 20182 min read
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A Return to Telecasters
So having done the Gibson P100 neck pickup implementation on the Black on Black Telecaster on it's initial build, I thought i'd try...
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Apr 22, 20181 min read
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Too Many Fender Amps?
I came to the conclusion that with a dozen or so Fender amps and a couple of little champ clones that it was all getting out of hand and...
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Apr 22, 20181 min read
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Not a Pedal
So I came across a thread on one of the Telecaster forums talking about a Surfy Bear kit. Turns out that this thing is a clone of a...
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Apr 17, 20181 min read
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Not a Tele
I picked this up as a hulk on Ebay - covered in graffiti which then had a horrible sticky dull coat of lacquer over it and what looked...
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Apr 16, 20181 min read
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Pedals
So I was rummaging through a box of pedals that didn't make it onto my main board(s) and I came to the conclusion that I had enough lying...
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Apr 14, 20181 min read
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Spring Builds
So now the weather is getting a little warmer, its safe to venture back down the shed and start the build process again in earnest. And...
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Apr 14, 20182 min read
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It's a Carve Up
I came across this guy making these lovely carved telecaster bodies out of Alder, so I got in touch and commissioned a left handed one.
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Feb 11, 20181 min read
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The Story So Far
The story so far Clockwise from the top left The Original blonde Classic Vibe Squire fitted with Gibson P90 neck pickup matched with a...
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Jan 5, 20182 min read
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A Couple of Builds over the Christmas Break
So in true "I knocked up this Tele" style over the Christmas break, these two came together. The Black on Black ticked all of the boxes...
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Dec 28, 20171 min read
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