TDPRI Challenge

Been building a guitar again over the last few weeks.
It's a Telecaster for the annual TDPRI Build Challenge.
At first I wanted to go for something LP Jr inspired, but the ones I've seen inspired by Juniors always look wrong. So I figured I might as well go for something "Gretschy".

Specs:
Body - African Mahogany + knotty pine top
Neck- African Mahogany + rosewood fretboard
Hardware - Bigsby B16, CTS/CRL controls, Seymour Duncan Nocaster bridgePUP, Gretsch Filtertron neckPUP, Kluson roundback tuners
Finish - Red and orange stain, nitro clearcoat

So here we go:

African mahogany for body and neck

Sawn and ready to rout

Routed + some parts

Neck, fretboard and body

Fretboard glued + bound

Shaping the neck

Neck stained

What it looked like last friday

How it looks today

Ready for wiring

Spring Reverb project.

Bought a silverface Fender Vibro-Champ recently. Love it to bits!
Only thing it lacks is reverb. So I'm building one.
Accutronics springtank, GGG Center Stage Reverb schemo and a bit of patience is all it takes...

Tank's a wee bit large. Solution? Rehouse the amp in a headcab and build a 2x10" speakercab.

With LUV,

M.

Fender 5F1 clone DONE

Built a 5F1 kit this winter... My first try at building amps.

Quite happy with it. Sounds like I wanted it to sound, smooth & cool dirt with my Esquire.

Even the singer and guitarplayer like the sound. Always cool to have it on the road. Great little backstage-amp.

Cheers

Supro Belmont clone FINISHED

Finished the Belmont clone a few months back, forgot to update this page. :)

Doesn't have the pinstripe on the headstock and pickguard.

Finsh looks like crap, but hey... So did the original ones.

Cheers!

Started over on the Supro Belmont...

Made huge big fuckup with this build. Seems half an inch off from the original guitar.

So I started over again. And what is better than 1 Belmont?

Right!

 2 Belmonts!

Pics soon...

'58 Supro Belmont

I started a little contest between a professional luthier and me this weekend. This guy helped me out a lot with the Dual-Tone and drew up a plan of that guitar. He said he'd like to build himself one like it someday. Turns out there's going to be a guitarbuilders meeting in 2 months...
So we set up this build-off plan.

Here's what I did so far:

Made the templates and glued a 2 piece Yellow Pine body.

 Roughly cut out the body, neck and fretboard...

Routed out the neck and shaped the headstocktransition

 Routed out the body and beveled the edges.

Did the back with a router, the front by hand.

Still figuring out how I'm going to do the neckpocket...

Think I'm going for a modern version of the old Supro's.

 Last but not least:

A mock-up!

To be continued...

CSTMS pt.2CSTMS pt.2

Did a few shows with these guys now... Loving every moment. Learning a lot about the Rock n Roll world. A lot about backline and stuff. Cool!
Next week: festivals! The real deal. Looking forward to it.