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

That is far too cool! Awesome effort for a first guitar! I trust theres a second and a third on the way?

Keep it up!

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

WOAH! And WHY is everyone's first build way better than mine was? lol

Great job man, it's absolutely stunning! I'd enter it into the guitar of the month competition if I were you.

Chris

Thanks! How do you enter that?

Ahhhh, I can't get enough of this one! I've loved it ever since I saw the first build pics on "Planket". I really want this guitar!!!!!!!! Such a great build Pukko!

/Jens (Toshiya)

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