I’m in the middle of doing a couple builds right now and they are all at stages that don’t particularly warrant taking photo’s and telling stories about. I’m also about to take a couple of days off to head to Byron Bay and get massively sunburnt because Celtic skin is apparently allergic to the sun.  In the meantime I’m going to try and line up some posts for the Archive collection, and today we start with builds number 2 & 3. After this I won’t really number them, I promise, it all becomes a blur to me anyway. 

#2

As you can probably see if you are playing along at home, it’s really not much different from my first build apart from the longer neck. It’s hard to see any input jacks or anything on this one but it is ‘electric’ I just so happened to drill the hole for the jack in a completely baffling location so that when playing holding like a normal guitar, to plug it in the guitar lead would jut out from the top of the body facing your chin. Genius I know… Hey I drilled the hole without thinking and thought what better way to learn from your mistakes than to let it be! 

After this build I wanted to up the ante a little so I decided to do a little bit of planing, my 3rd build would be my first that actually had anything resembling a standard scale length and a slightly more refined string through and bridge system. 

#3

Obviously I still had a fair bi to learn if you want to really pick at things, but I don’t so… The hardest part of this build was drilling the string through straight enough with a hand drill blindly through the body as I didn’t really plan things all that well and glued the top down with the neck set in before thinking just how in the hell I would get the strings through.

Also notice the inclusion of a volume control, LOOKOUT FENDER! 

I was going through my “Cubist” phase apparently channeling Picaso with this headstock right here.

I did start shaping a neck profile with this build and ever since it has been one of my favourite parts of putting the guitars together. A little unrefined yes I know, but I think I did this with sandpaper alone. (I wish I was kidding)

A little while after this went to a new home I decided to put frets on it, I don’t have any photo’s of that but if you can imagine little bits of wire placed into wood, you get the idea ;) 

From this build onwards, things started getting a little bit refined and each subsequent build started looking somewhat closer to the guitars I am making these days. More Archive Builds coming soon.