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Finally done!

By admin on July 28, 2009

After allowing the finish to cure for a few weeks I realized that I was within hours of finishing a Telecaster that I have been building for myself.  I took part of the day and knocked it out.  I’ve been chipping away at it for months and it is finally done! I rubbed out the finish, shaped the nut, soldered the remaining connections, and assembled all the parts.

The body is made from two pieces of book-matched ash from a tree cut down in my neighborhood.  It has some staining and a few imperfections but it has character, it has a connection to where I live, and it was saved from ending up in the landfill.  I did about everything I could think of on the guitar short of learning to work metal.  The pickguard is laminated Sapelle, Maple, and black dyed Costello finished with Lacquer.  I wound the pickups from kits available from Stewart-Macdonald. I learned a few tricks along the way like how magnetize pickup magnets and how to measure magnetism using a homemade gauss meter employing a hall effect device. Perhaps that is a future blog.  If you are interested the plans are available here.

I think it turned out quite nicely and it sounds great.  You don’t have to take my word for it.  Here are some clips of my friend Joe Reyes playing this guitar.  Thanks Joe!

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5 responses to “Finally done!”

  1. Kylie Batt1
    Kylie Batt1
    June 12, 2010 at 4:06 pm |

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  2. Kyle Nopeman
    Kyle Nopeman
    June 18, 2010 at 5:36 pm |

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  3. Kyle Nopeman
    Kyle Nopeman
    June 19, 2010 at 1:01 am |

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  4. Kyle Nopeman
    Kyle Nopeman
    June 20, 2010 at 9:56 am |

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  5. Kyle Nopeman
    Kyle Nopeman
    June 21, 2010 at 10:26 am |

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