homemade guitar

UPDATED OCTOBER 15 2008
Im planning on building another guitar soon and this time i will document how i'm making it and i will make sure to capture as much of it as i can on video. So, sometime this winter expect a how-to sort of thing!
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DESCRIPTION:
I made this guitar because ive always wanted an explorer, and i didnt want to settle for an epiphone, but i didnt want to way $1000 for a gibson either, so i made one. I wanted the guitar to sound like Billy Gibbons signature gretsch model, which is "heavily chambered," so i did the same. Sorta too bad that you cant see the inside cus thats where most of my hard work went lol. I made the guitar out of alder. I hollowed out (or Heavily chambered as i like to say) the back and glued an alder top on. The back and top are both made up of 3-4 pieces of alder, as my woodshop stock room had alot of warped pieces, and my teacher advised me to cut the wood with the grain and glue the pieces together. I used my first guitar's neck, a squier strat neck, and cut off that weird curve shape. I used a gretsch wraparound tailpiece i got off ebay and a used unidentifiable seymour duncan pickup i got at a pawn shop for $20. The one knob, a volume control, somehow got put in backwards so a counter clockwise turn will turn it up. I painted the guitar with many coats of primer, and then black spray paint, and then a silver coat on the top. The top bout of the guitar was angled that way to keep the strap from falling off because i was too cheap to invest in straplocks lol so i used my prs's old stock rings. I bought new gotoh tuning machines and it stays in tune pretty well. My only complaint is that the action is a bit up the neck, and the pot is not tight so sometimes when i change volume, it loses signal. The total cost of the electronics, paint, etc., was about $130, but i didnt have to pay for the wood. I am thinking that when i replace strings, i will remove the neck and stick some thin wood in the cavity to lower the upper neck action and i will try to find a way to tighten the pot so that i can play the guitar more, because as of now, it hangs from my wall and will get no play lol. If anyone wants to buy it, ill sell it for $350-$400 because it has alot of sentimental value to it because it was my first attempt to build a guitar I dont expect anyone to really buy it though :). Sorry for the long wait to reply! Ill try to reply to ur comments more from now on

Category:

Music

Tags:

• homemade
• guitar
• shred
• rock
• music
• gibson
• explorer

[AFuruholm]

damn thats ugly

[flyingsquirrel73]

Sounds great dude...cool tone- I always liked the explorer, James Hetfield turned me onto them..would love to make my own guitar someday.

[DOitHAAAARD]

why didn't you invent your own dising? Your fantasy can only copy already invented things, doesen't it?

[Maggot2607]

You don't need flashy graphics to be great. You need a good sounding guitar and skill. I mean look at Jimi Hendrix. He played a right handed Stratocaster restrung to the left. Simple and now he is God.

[MaidenFan24568]

1 humbucker, 1 volume, stoptail bridge, simple but very effective

[blue4219]

That guitar is too simple. If I did it, I'd atleast make it look cooler with graphics like Dan Jacobs of Atreyu, for example. His is beast!

[laiholapso]

i love how most people can't play and build a super guitar

he can play super and builds a simple guitar

[TheMelani12]

woow i love it



[dannyo009]

Love the simplicity of the guitar

[jojogreenful]

wow great