And some of yesterday...



This is one of several slabs of a pine tree that was struck by lightning a couple years back at my grandmother's place in New Hampshire. I just rough cut three or four slabs out of a section of the trunk with a chainsaw. Without a proper power planer here, i have been putting off doing anything with the slabs for quite a while.

Well, i got tired of waiting and i wanted to build something, so i decided to do it up with a regular old hand plane. My hands are mostly blisters at the moment.

As the slab was just slightly too small to do as a one piece i had to add some bits to the body to make it wide enough. As such, i am probably going to paint it a solid color, though my original intent was to go either natural or butterscotch. Whatever color it winds up will depend on what i have around the basement, as i am too broke to buy anything for this build.

Still don't know what i am going to use for hardware and whatnot. Might cannibalize some other guitar for bits.

There are all kinds of gnarly knots and bug tunnels all over, so i expect it to be pretty punkrock-looking once i am done.

Tele parts you say?

I may have a couple of things laying about, at least a couple of knobs I know.

Also that guitar is pure man.

Burlycaster.

Lumbercaster.

You don't say...

Yeah, really, i don't have the parts to build a guitar right now, i just felt very much that i wanted to do so anyhow. I *think* i have pickups, a random chinese neck with no tuners that may or may not be straight enough to use, that lo-fi gfs three saddle bridge(which i don't like), the pickguard, and probably the pots... But other than that, i am missing a bunch of things.

I am probably going to cut a control plate out of some bar stock i have(like the aluminum one in the pictar there, but steel instead), but i don't know if i have a neck plate or tuners or knobs or if the pickups i have even work... At this stage, i am just pressing on regardless. I figure i will figure something out once it is routed and painted and all that shizz.

Yeah, it is pretty awesome, actually: After i cut the wood, i took the two biggest slabs and put them in the corners of the huge fireplace that is up there. I ran a pretty solid blaze for a couple of days and just moved them periodically so that they would dry out some at an accelerated rate. Well they also scorched a bit, as you can see in the dark spots in the picture with the pickguard. So after planing and sanding it for a couple of days everything smells like an awesome bonfire. The guitar is like lumberjack smell-o-vision.

Haha.

I am also getting ready to do some mods on mah tele, so I should have a spare set of pups, amongst other things. I am getting it a new bridge, unfortunately it has a wilki three-saddle brass on it right now so I doubt that would help.

You have my attention.

Is the bridge a compensated saddle one? That is my main beef with this GFS. It sounds fine, but the intonation drives me batty.

Let me know what you have as far as bits you don't need, and i will see what i can do about acquiring them from you. I definitely need some tele knobs, for instance, fo sho.

Otherwise, i am probably going to do something ghetto trying to make my own workalike for them.

If i am happy enough with the results of this experiment, i think you will like the one i have planned next(here situated next to the planed-but-not-yet-shaped-in-this-photo tele):

Pine?

How is that for guitar bodies?

For what i do, it is awesome. Very lightweight, has a nice odd mids content to it, and sounds nice through a bright voxy map.

A little weird for high gain stuff, but not neccesarily in a bad way... Actually, this was done with the first pinecaster experiment i did: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_so ... ID=6842193

Which is this guitar:


Though at the time of that recording, i think i had a Dimarzio Norton fullsize HB in the bridge... I don't really remember.

It's compensated, so you may be down.

Let me know all of what you have and what you want for them and i will figure it out!

That is a cool jam.

Yeah, i dug that one. I think it was billed as the HCAF Doom Drum Jam or something? I don't even remember who did it, either Todge or Exafro though i think...

Ah! It was Todge.

http://acapella.harmony-central.com/sho ... ?t=2077527

Pine Mustang?

Oh, sweet jesus.


Could you do me a favor and put 2 of these in there?
http://www.guitarfetish.com/Brighton-Rock-Vintage-Spec-Alnico-Pickups-Classic-quotQueenquot-sound_p_1514.html

I was actually thinking about some of these with a couple coil splits inn'em: http://www.guitarfetish.com/Calibrated- ... p_149.html