Thread: Post Pictures of your FIRST build

Here is mine,

It is
braziliam mahogany body and neck with a flamed maple drop top.
fretboard is amazon rosewood 25 inch scale length
bridge is a gotoh wrap around
pickups are duncan custom custom in bridge and 59 in the neck.
The back is carved, and I wanted to do it as a practise for a carved top.




Look forward to seeing what other people have done

Cheers,

Peter

as i posted in my thread.... i found my first build a few weeks ago in the roof space of my shed...

its nothing compared to yours peter!! lol

but i did do it a long time ago.... long before there was any of these forums, before i had any books on the subject, and before custom guitars became a trend

i traced an lp jr off my computer screen and cut it out by hand!

just a solid tassie oak body, had a classical fingerboard on it

andd the bridge was the same as peters, gotoh i think it was.... cost me a good 100 or 120 or so at the time .... i later sold it with a different guitar...
it had a hardtail and a tomon it also at different stages... plugged and redrilled the holes a fair few times lol

it had a vintage p90 in it with a dog ear cover

cavities all done with a chiesel






and one more, my thoughts on my first ever build

I promise to start a build thread for my first soon.

Ordering the parts tomorrow.

Originally Posted by tim290280

I promise to start a build thread for my first tomorrow.

sounds good to me

Well the first pic is of the very first musical instrument I made (you stick your two fingers in your mouth & then practice till you can get a musical note LOL

The second pic is of a banjo I resurected I bought it cheap it was stuffed. I coverted it to nylon as I reckon that half of the original neck damage was done because there is no truss rod in it.

Oh BTW it sounds great.

ok well i'm gonna post 2 guitars!

the first is very technically my first which my dad helped me built wen i was bout 16!
but mostly my dads help! an the death of a poor samick that had its parts stripped an its fretboard saw off for a lack of a better idea!! haha once it was strung up i had to tighten the truss rod so much to get the neck straight that the fret board popped off! haha

the second you've prob all seen which i claim as my true first as i had no help an no cheating! but a couple of pics anyway

G'Day Peter,
This is a magic build, looks beautiful. I will build the ugly one, one day when I get some spare time.
Cheers Bob

Originally Posted by peterbrown

Here is mine,

It is
braziliam mahogany body and neck with a flamed maple drop top.
fretboard is amazon rosewood 25 inch scale length
bridge is a gotoh wrap around
pickups are duncan custom custom in bridge and 59 in the neck.
The back is carved, and I wanted to do it as a practise for a carved top.




Look forward to seeing what other people have done

Cheers,

Peter

You've seen mine already.

oh an how the hell do you make a cavity cover like that peter??

Ok, here's a couple of firsts, the Tele is two piece Alder body, rock maple neck, Indian Rosewood FB, Seymour Duncan VIntage 54 pups.

The amp is based on the P1 Schematic at ax84.com and cabinet is knocked up from some scrap Oregon, some left over shade cloth and has a vintage Aussie MSP speaker (actually looks a lot cooler out of the harsh light of day).

Nathan

crazyhorse Your Tele looks like the real McCoy , the amp looks great TUBES eh ? How does it sound?

My first post and my first guitar!!!
Here it is!!
I am currently doing another tele build using vintage parts (not original but reissue) and I am planing a LP build!! Have a nice piece of 100 year old rosewood for that!!
What do you guys think of a rosewood top LP??

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Wendy

As Wendy said, there are archives that are useful to search.

Irish, no we dont like Rosewood here. Best thing to do is ship direct to me. PM me for the mailing address. Its a pity your photo is blurred, that looks like a nice piece of kit.

My humble first, mando, King Billy Pine top, Mahogony B&S & neck, I dont have any finished photos, oops