Cherry Humbucking Telecaster

I "vampirized" two guitars to build another one.
Used
- the hardware and neck of the ugly yellow Tele copy
- the Seymour Duncan humbucker of my cheap el Degas guitar
- Some cherry I had lying around

I show some of the tools I used and a few steps in the making of the guitar.

At the end I improvise a little something to let you hear it. (Don't know any complete song on the guitar, so I'm just noodling around).

I'm really happy with the guitar. It plays real good. Too bad I suck at guitar playing, hehehe.

Cherry is a very heavy wood. The guitar (9 1/2 lbs) is heavier than my Fender Precison bass (8 1/2 lbs).
The guitar will darken in color as it ages. When cherry is freshly cut, milled into boards and dried, it has a very light pinkish color (like it is right now). It will develop a beautiful deep red patina over time.


Background music is Danzig's Five Finger Crawl from the album 6:66 Satan's Child, 1999

Category:

Music

Tags:

• telecaster
• seymour
• duncan
• home
• made
• cherry
• woodworking
• electric
• guitar
• humbucker

[woodyamsterdam]

I applaud you! You're obviously a man of many hidden qualities hehehe!

[korgrandi]

@woodyamsterdam They're not hidden. It's just that you never looked beyond my pretty face, hahaha.

[kdc300z]

yea! How did I miss this vid! Nice man! looks like a good neck joint. great routing. nice jig too!

[korgrandi]

@kdc300z I did quite a fixing job on the neck joint. I think you saw it in a previous vid, was loose at first. Glued in a strip of cherry, then worked carefully with the chisel.

I needed the jig as a 20" planer, but you probably know what it's for, as I didn't invent anything, just copied the idea from somewhere.

[ColonelBuckshot]

Hey you finished it, nice one. It looks and sounds cool. Bass next then?

[korgrandi]

@ColonelBuckshot

Tempting, but at the same time I want to make it right. I only did the body on this one. If I do another one, I'll do it all. I'm still trying to figure out if I want a neck through body or a glued on neck (dont want to make a bolt on). Haven't decided plenty of stuff actually like the wood I'd use coz my guitar is very heavy. So I want to take my time before I start buying material. I already have two basses, so there's no rush :)

[marciomesquita]

Nice job @korgrandi ! I saw this guitar live months ago but had never watched the making of.

[woodyamsterdam]

@korgrandi

That must have been indeed the case I guess lol!

[korgrandi]

@jonnda Hey thanks for dropping by and checking my guitar out.

[jonnda]

Good job, cherry is one of my favorite words to work with. Thanks for letting me know you made one.