I’m not fancy enough to call myself a luthier. I simply enjoy making guitars.

I have been playing music for a long time.
In 2022 I built three guitars.

LEFT:
My first effort was a kit. It was a “paint and bolt together” project. I don’t like the Tele pick guards and wanted to leave it off. There was already a space routed out for the neck pickup. I decided to make a cage that fit that hole and held the neck pickup. I also swapped the included bridge, cover plate, and pickups. It plays great.

CENTER:
Once I saw how easy it was to put a guitar together I decided to make a body for the “extra” Tele style neck I had. I took a 100 year old cedar 2x8 beam salvaged from a demolished warehouse and turned it into a guitar body. Without a template, measuring and routing the cavities freehand, I built the body. Trying to keep the front of the guitar “clean” I wanted to mount the neck pickup from the back. I didn’t want the cavity to be wide and have the height adjustment screws visible. With the help of Fusion360 I designed a system to mount the pickup from behind and still be able to adjust the height. I learned a lot from this guitar build. It also plays and sounds great.

RIGHT:
After I built the cedar body I figured that I should attempt to build a neck. Not sure if the tools (or skills) I had would amount to anything usable, I opted to build the neck out of an old scrap of 2x4. I put a truss rod in, a maple fingerboard, frets, and used glow-in-the-dark google eyes for fret markers. Ridiculous, I know. Crap. The neck turned out great. Now I had to build a body worthy of the google eyed neck. Laminating scrap 2x4s with pieces of the 100 year old cedar beam I made a body. A body with a black stained “pupil” and glow-in-the-dark glitter filled resin “eyeball”. I mounted the pickups from the rear and used an audio fader pot instead of a switch to pan between the two pickups. Again, it plays and sounds great.