Just a bunch of pictures

Well, since Lorri is at it again, telling her friends at work about me and my guitars, I figured I would post an update to the blog since I have not actually done so since before I finished the three guitars I was working on for Christmas 2007 and Lorri's birthday in 2008. Nothing like being refered to a site with a bunch of unfinished guitars if you are interested in seeing what someone can do. So if you checked out the blog recently and did not have the more recent pictures, sorry. Here is what I have finished and what I have in progress. I have not been in the shop much lately, but hope to get over there once the weather gets nicer before I start school back up in the fall. Not sure why some pictures are aligned upside down. The originals were not that way and I could not figure out how to rotate them in the blog publishing page.

My cousin's guitars. Made the brown-burst LP for my cousin Jeff and the Amber Tele for my cousin Tim for Christmas 2007. Both have semi-hollow ash bodies with flamed maple tops and koa binding. Gold hardware, fret wire, and gold pearl inlays. The pickups on both guitars are Seymour Duncans with the Tele having stacked pickups with coil splitting and the Les Paul having a Phat Cat (humbucker sized P-90) in the neck and a split coil humbucker in the bridge position. Both guitars have an accoustic style output jack in the bottom strap pin.

Green Telestratocastor for Lorri's birthday 2008. Alder body, Nashville Tele style pickups with a tremolo. Lots of custom inlay and gold hardware.

Lorri's friend Hung commissioned my first left handed guitar. He wanted a single pickup, single volume strat bodied guitar with a Subaru WRX blue finish.

Red Tele style guiar made from MDF (medium density fiberboard) with a flamed maple veneer top and a maple neck. It is just a test project to try to find different materials to make guitars from. This is currently the closest guitar to being finished. I just need to fix the wiring and do some fretwork.

Silver basswood strat style guitar. This one had the finish start to peel, so I have stripped it down and am starting the finish over. I have not decided on which pickup configuration to use. I have a pickguard wired for SSS (w/b/w) and HSS (pearloid). It will have chrome hardware.

Les Paul style guitar. Had some problems with the binding on this one, so I have redone the binding. Need to finish getting the neck pocket/tennon joint and glue together and then I will be ready for finish sanding and finishing. I have some Seymour Duncan humbuckers for this one and chrome hardware, but may opt to buy some Seymour Duncan P-Rail pickups instead to get more tonal variations.

First SG style guitar I have built. I am adding a bit more contour to this than a standard SG to give it a bit more of a comfortable feel. Planning on doing a cherry finish with black pickguard and black hardware (chrome covered humbuckers).

First attempt at an accoustic guitar. I started it in a class I was taking, but was unable to finish it. Someday, I will finish it and if it turns out to play well, I will most likely by a side bending machine so I can build more. Flamed maple back and sides and spruce top. I am not sure how the sound hole cut out will work, so I may need to cut it out for a more standard round sound hole as the pieces are very fragile and may break too easily during playing.