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Any Guitar Players?

TheCigarFarm said:
@kann here are my builds this far. All Tele builds. The blackguard is my personal player and my first build. It’s got a warmth neck, but I made the body from white ash.

My second build is the whiskey barrel build. I made the body and neck from an old Jim Beam Barrel. The body was made from the lid and I epoxy coated the whole thing so that the top maintained the marking and the back is the charred, underside of the lids. The neck was made from 3 of the staves laminated together then shaped. What a pain.. great first neck build experience 😂

My fifth build is the white guard. One piece ash body and hard maple neck. This was my first neck build with this headstock design I came up with.

There’s a couple builds in between that were part of a collab with an artist that went sour. So I try to block them out of my mind 😂

My current build is near the stage of prepping the body and neck for finish work..
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That is really impressive work, you must be pretty comfortable as a luthier to be doing full builds like that.
 
kann said:
Wow, those are incredible! Each has its own vibe. I'm a sucker for a traditional natural ash Tele with black plastic or the OG butterscotch blonde. The whiskey barrel build is wild. What pickups do you put in them?
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The Whiskey Barrel build actually had a set of custom made pickups by a fella named Jim Grandon that isn’t far from me.

My blackguard has 50s spec’s pickups from him as well.

The white guard has Dimarzio Twang Kings.
 
insight said:
That is really impressive work, you must be pretty comfortable as a luthier to be doing full builds like that.
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I don’t know that I’d say I’m comfortable with it 😂 I just always wanted a Tele and didn’t want to pay for one. And since I am good with my hands and like woodworking, I figured I’d just make one. Then I made another, and another. And each one gets a little more in depth and creative.
 
I can relate to that - I have debating for a bit between a tele or an SG of some sort for my next guitar but I also don't want to pay for one lol. I have not yet reached the mental deception where I *need* another guitar, but I'm sure we will get there.
 
insight said:
I can relate to that - I have debating for a bit between a tele or an SG of some sort for my next guitar but I also don't want to pay for one lol. I have not yet reached the mental deception where I *need* another guitar, but I'm sure we will get there.
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I hear ya! I honestly haven’t had a desire to own another guitar since I build my Tele a few years ago. I’m pretty minimalist when it comes to guitars.

Now, I want to build an acoustic soon. And that I will keep. At least the first one.
 
insight said:
I can relate to that - I have debating for a bit between a tele or an SG of some sort for my next guitar but I also don't want to pay for one lol. I have not yet reached the mental deception where I *need* another guitar, but I'm sure we will get there.
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I haven't actually cracked a case in quite some time, unfortunately, but I sure do look at them a lot when I see guitars come up on my feeds and think, "I'd really love one of those...".
 
Here’s a look at the neck of my current build with some mineral spirits on it. It’s a scarf jointed maple neck with padauk fretboard and hand cut hard maple fret markers. Ready for frets!
 

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TheCigarFarm said:
Here’s a look at the neck of my current build with some mineral spirits on it. It’s a scarf jointed maple neck with padauk fretboard and hand cut hard maple fret markers. Ready for frets!
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Beautiful!

(FYI, when you insert images, if you click on "Full" it will post the full-size pic and not just a thumb nail)
 
I'm liking this thread with twangs and frets etc. But a pug isn't a good guitar dog, but hell on 88 keys. Nice work Trevor, damn nice. WOOF approved.
 
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