Building two matching guitars

[Saiyaman]

Well as my profile will tell you, I'm a professional luthier, guitar repairman and a couple of weeks ago I decided to get rid of stuff I have lying around and made an inventory of what I can use for a new build and came up with this.

- A Birdseye maple tele neck with a rosewood fingerboard
- A plain maple Strat neck with maple cap fingerboard
- A gold cover Humbucker from a Les Paul Custom
- A Dimarzio Super distortion humbucker
- Two chrome Fender style hard tail bridges, one toploading the other for string through body construction.
- Two sets of Cast sealed tuners, one for each neck.
- Two chrome humbucker rings.

So with that I decided to build two matching pine body Teles which if all goes well will look like this.
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/1Teles.jpg

So with that in mind I started work two weeks ago on the bodies.
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/les%20paul%20bouw/100_0937.jpg
The second body during the routing

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/les%20paul%20bouw/100_0938.jpg
The two bodies

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/les%20paul%20bouw/100_0939.jpg
This would've been the body for the tele neck

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/les%20paul%20bouw/100_0940.jpg
And this would've been the one for the strat neck.

 

[Saiyaman]

I eventually decided to drop the idea of using the necks I had lying around and instead opted to made the necks from scratch, also when talking to Jack T Ripper, our second guitarist, he asked me if it were possible to give the guitars 24 fret necks and I found no reason why it shouldn't be possible. It also makes that I have to give the guitars a Gibson 24, 1/5 scale length.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/les%20paul%20bouw/100_0954.jpg
One of the necks while the glue was setting.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/les%20paul%20bouw/100_0955.jpg
And here's the neck after the glue dried and I planed it. This particullar neck was made from rest pieces of other necks we made, it consists of three main pieces of Birds eye maple, two layers of rosewood veneer, two layers of maple veneer and two layers of lacewood veneer, the effect as you can tell is striking, this will be a KILLER neck.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/les%20paul%20bouw/100_0946.jpg
As for work on the bodies, I finished routing the neck pockets....

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/les%20paul%20bouw/100_0947.jpg
...and started work on the routing of the electronics compartment.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/les%20paul%20bouw/100_0948.jpg
And off we go....

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/les%20paul%20bouw/100_0949.jpg
Slow and steady wins the race

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/les%20paul%20bouw/100_0950.jpg
And routing a pocket to recess the backplate so it looks and feels smooth.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/les%20paul%20bouw/100_0951.jpg
Finished

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/les%20paul%20bouw/100_0952.jpg
Time to whip out the grain filler.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/les%20paul%20bouw/100_0953.jpg
For both bodies of course.

 

[Saiyaman]

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/les%20paul%20bouw/100_0956.jpg
And here's how they look after the first sanding when the filler has set.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/les%20paul%20bouw/100_0957.jpg
And from behind too of course

 

[pellso27]

play it like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkSHHK7WlAw&feature=related

 

[Sacron11]

pics...

like the tele-styles guitars you didn't make, apparently. nice clean look with the raw wood and single hum.