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
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.
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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:
Body:
Electronics:
Hardware:
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.