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Hey friends, how is errybody?
I’ve been working away behind the scenes for the past week doing odd little repair jobs and trying to resurrect a very poorly finished Telecaster from the very depths of hell. This poor guitar was one of my very first attempts at doing a painted top with natural back and sides, and in my eagerness to get it finished I rushed every step of the way.
If you have been following the blog for a little while, you may have noticed how strongly I caution people to take time with every part of building or even simply refinishing a guitar (not saying that painting a guitar is simple btw). This guitar is the one that taught me that lesson. It in fact became such a hurdle at times that it had me questioning just what in the hell I was doing stepping away from the relative comfort of building cigar box guitars, and moving into full body electrics.
This post is an extremely long read so it’s cool if you don’t get through it, but if you want to, hit the read more link that I’ve put just here.
Well friends, “The Bootstang” is currently hanging up and drying out, slowly but surely. It’s going to be a while in between posts relating to it as really, watching paint dry literally, is not very exciting. It will be needing somewhere around the vicinity of a month before I can start the wet sanding and polishing stage, and I’m already hating every minute of having to wait. Even though I’ve put it all together before painting, I’m still worried I’ve missed something and it will all fall apart just before the finish line!
While it’s drying out I’ll be ordering some extra parts, I still haven’t decided on the brand of P-90 pickups going into it, or what value pots and caps I want to use, I also still have to cut out the holes for the pickups in the scratchplate. I’m also going to be deciding on neck options… It’s one thing to build a body for a guitar by hand with a fair amount of guesswork (as far as how to do things goes), but the neck is something I have been unsure as to wether or not I want to attempt. In all honesty I don’t feel confident enough to get it spot on, and that will probably haunt me for years if I goof it up. I had always used a Mighty Mite neck for measurements including the neck cavity, so I feel like I am going to probably take that route this time around.
I’ve made dozens and dozens of cigar box guitar necks in my time, but they are rather simple in comparison, no truss rod, no need for a router and really they are while similar - essentially nothing like building a proper guitar neck. No, I feel like at this stage I will make use of a pre made neck until I have had the chance to teach myself some more tricks.
Oh man, I feel crap even typing that… I really want to build the neck but.
Maybe, I should just give it a shot?
We will see!
In the meantime I’ll be posting some more mods I’m hoping to work on soon and perhaps even the return of the Cigar Box Guitar!
I’ll be in touch soon you guys!