allanjames

The Maui Pallet This guitar is not particularly about high end parts, in fact thats the whole point of it. Its about 95% pallet wood. Not sure about some of the woods - maybe some folks can help me out there. Neck: 3-ply neck-through: pallet oak | poplar | pallet oak Rosewood (stewmac) fretboard - 24 3/4 scale, 24 frets $8 trussrod from amazon. Sculpey (took from my kids) brewed fingerboard dots I mixed white and gray Sculpey (polymer clay), pushed it into a drilled aluminum mold then baked. Body: Back is maple (I think) from a rather strange pallet I dismantled. Top is oak. I happen to get a pallet that had rips from the same log that match up pretty good. Electronics: Cheep imported humbuckers from amazon. About $8 for both. CTS pots, and 250k orange drop caps Les paul wiring. 2 volume, 2 tone. Tele style side jack plate. Hardware: More cheep imported parts, tune-o-metic bridge, and stop. Same for the machine tuners. Why: This guitar was a personal experiment to see how cheep I could build a guitar out of the abundant pallets available on Maui. I've built lots of furniture and other projects out of pallets, and figured I'd give a guitar a go. While it was fun, I won't do it again -I'm on to using nice normal wood for my next guitars. Its sound is... well, not the best, and I really should have put some hollow chambers in it because its too heavy. Better pickups would probably help for sure. Where: I built this one in my back yard mostly over this last winter. I now have a shop and also with my work shop I have access to much better tools, but this one (as an experiment) was built with hand planers, a 14" band saw, a skill saw and a router. The Back (Pre-wired) My workspace for this guitar: The pallet. Sizing up the sides and neck plys.