Hi everybody,
Because I wanted to do more with guitars than playing, collecting and occasionely doing basic repair/maintanance, I decided to follow a 3 month guitar building course in the UK at Crimson Guitars. It was an adventure in itself and not only because I had to end the course a week and a half early because of the corona virus.
Long story short, I managed to finish 1 guitar completely and 2 partly, but enough to finish them at home. Because I'm working again, I haven't had the time to finish them, but because I'm proud of them, even in this state, I wanted to share them with you.
Why here, you might ask? Well, two of the three guitars where heavily inspired by Matsumoke guitars, so I hope you will see the inspiration.
The first one I built, was a '52 Fender Telecaster. I only have this photo, because it's currently staying at my brother and because of corona, it's gonna stay there a little bit longer.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/uU6jsd7pyfdv4ZP36It has an ash body and one piece maple neck and fretboard. The hardware is as close to a '52 tele I could get.
The second guitar started out as Gibson Les Paul Standard, but as the built progressed, I got inspired by the builts around me and decided to go for a more Aria Pro II PE style guitar. The knob lay-out changed from the traditional 2 vol/2 tone to 1 vol/1 tone with the selector switch on the bottom and the jackplug socket on the front.
It also has a carve on the back. The rest of the spec's are:
-two piece mahagony body with cream binding.
-one piece mahogony neck with a ebony fretboard with trapezoid m.o.p. inlays and cream binding. Maple fineer headstock in ruby red.
-two piece maple top in emerald green.
The rest of the hardware is going to be in gold and cream.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ykzujVcj4KqnzGeu7https://photos.app.goo.gl/ApuCD9r8YQe8LKuC7https://photos.app.goo.gl/gvXVRPpnuGvB2G7J8https://photos.app.goo.gl/6MypuEBcHuKFJKGx8My third built was always going to be a Mats inspired guitar. I wanted to built something like a FS750/1000 and this is my take on it. It also has some typical Westone influences like the form of the headstock. It also has something of me in it. The body style is based on a Gibson SG and there is going to be a carve on the back as well. This are the spec's:
-5 piece maple and mahogony neckthrough neck with a sunken, ebony fretboard (what looks like binding is the neck itself), with walnut fineer on the headstock.
-mahogony hollowed out wings with a walnut top, maple binding.
It's going to have a set of MMK-61 humbuckers with 2 vol/2 tone with push/pull pot's.The rest of the hardware is going to be chrome and black.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/3FK9swCyBkKeQaH5Ahttps://photos.app.goo.gl/1TmNy8CAFgbKDBsv5https://photos.app.goo.gl/evsP9jN6qmjDLVPT7https://photos.app.goo.gl/5PmytMPTAx3YMmuKAhttps://photos.app.goo.gl/pawi7TuPXqZHNmjm9https://photos.app.goo.gl/CuwzwkNdBtUns8rf6https://photos.app.goo.gl/zHUgD1cGkGdDnwMr6This one still needs a lot of grinding before I can use oil to finish 'm. I also want to put maple binding in the soundholes.
I hope you enjoy this and that I can show you the finished guitars in the near future.
Kind regards, Rob.