pukko

Here´s my second build. This is in progress, so I´ll show what I´ve done so far... This guitar wasn´t suppose to happen at all, but when I visited my grandparents summer house I found some nicely figured birch in my grandpas woodworking shed. It wasn´t big enough for a whole neck, so I split it in two and laminated it with a strip of oak that I found as well. Later I found a 2"x4" spruce plank that looked pretty free from knots, and it was really old and dry. I figured I could make a body out of that, so I made a two piece blank. I traded a strat pickguard for a piece of rosewood for the fretboard, and then I had all the wood needed for a guitar. Almost all of it from my grandpa, that´s pretty cool. Here are the blanks for the project: Someone told me that birch can be a little unstable, so I decided to reinforce the neck with some graphite rods: http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m283/pukko2/DSC01691.jpg Headstock roughly shaped, the wood on the front is being removed so the chipping doesnt matter: http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m283/pukko2/DSC01691.jpg

Thanks! Yep, there´s a second one being built right now, I´ll make a topic for that one as well. Thanks! How do you enter that?

Thanks again!

Hi! I´m new to this forum and thought I should present the first guitar that I´ve built. I´m Swedish, so please don´t be too hard on my English writing... I had been thinking about building a guitar for many years and finally had the money to do it. I also had a bunch of sketches that I had drawn through the years, picked one of those and did a couple of changes to it. Since it was my first build and I didn´t think I could make a neck from scratch, I chose to buy a maple/rosewood neck with a paddle headstock and shape that. The body is mahogany with a maple top. It has three GFS Dream 90 pickups wired like this: Neck and bridge pickups have one volume control each and a tone control that works on all pickup selections. A Les Paul-style three-way switch and a push-pull switch on one of the volumes give these options: With the push-pull down, the three-way switch works like on a Les Paul (neck, neck/bridge, bridge pickup). When the push-pull is up, the middle pickup is added to whatever pickup combination is selected, giving neck/middle, neck/middle/bridge and middle/bridge combinations too. The pickguard is made from a tortoise blank, as is the truss rod cover, jackplate and tailpiece plate. I made the metal on the jack and tailpiece from aluminium and had a guy nickel plate it. Schaller GTM bridge, Kluson tuners. Knobs from GFS as well. Well, here´s what it looks like: Back: http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a336/pukko/94.jpg Headstock: http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a336/pukko/104.jpg Jackplate: http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a336/pukko/91.jpg Tailpiece: http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a336/pukko/92.jpg A couple of close-ups: http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a336/pukko/101.jpg http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a336/pukko/97.jpg http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a336/pukko/95.jpg