First tele build... A RAINBOW PAISLEY!!!!

i started this build a few weeks ago... and committed the unspeakable... i didnt start a build thread... so now i am! well better late than never.

this build will be have alot of firsts for me.
1. build a body
2. build a neck from hd maple/ cocobolo
3. do a fabric finish (rainbow paisley!!) w/ a hard poly clear coat


the body is made of a pine 2x6 with a plain maple cap.

you've gotta post pictures or it just doesn't exist!! :-)

me holding my new pride and joy (even in its rough form...)
http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m639/smitty_d/TDPRI/Photo-0130.jpg

heres the body clamped to the work bench so i can safely cut the excess maple off the edges
http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m639/smitty_d/TDPRI/Photo-0131.jpg

ahha! making sawdust! thats the only way for progress!
http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m639/smitty_d/TDPRI/Photo-0132.jpg

here are my ideas for the paisley.
the rainbow
http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m639/smitty_d/TDPRI/Photo-0125.jpg

or

http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m639/smitty_d/TDPRI/Photo-0134.jpg

ill post more pics tomorrow of the maple and cherry neck blanks i have glued up already

and the cocobolo for the fretboard.

Pictures of Tele builds, 1,000 bucks!

Picture of smiling builder holding body. 1,000,000 bucks!


Picture of feet and sawdust:

http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m639/smitty_d/TDPRI/Photo-0132.jpg

PRICELESS!!!


:mrgreen::mrgreen:

u know it! robt57 the feeling i get from making something that i cant get anywhere else is priceless!

You know it, I am jealous of your feet and sawdust, no shop in this rental we are in...

But, we looked at a house today and making an offer tomorrow:

Look at the nice building at the back of the property, what would I do in there I wonder...

You are getting me excited with this paisley build talk...

http://home.comcast.net/%7E7511/11/leslie-shop-sat.jpg

me holding my new pride and joy (even in its rough form...)
http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m639/smitty_d/TDPRI/Photo-0130.jpg

heres the body clamped to the work bench so i can safely cut the excess maple off the edges
http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m639/smitty_d/TDPRI/Photo-0131.jpg

ahha! making sawdust! thats the only way for progress!
http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m639/smitty_d/TDPRI/Photo-0132.jpg

here are my ideas for the paisley.
the rainbow
http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m639/smitty_d/TDPRI/Photo-0125.jpg

or

http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m639/smitty_d/TDPRI/Photo-0134.jpg

O... I see....

When you said rainbow paisley, I had something in mind that looked absolutely terrible- a rainbow striped pattern with black paisley outlines on it. Yuck.

But what you have picked looks great. Either of those should look awesome. What color are you gonna use for the 'burst sides?

robt57 thats the size of shop i dream of having! good luck man hope u get it!

danny hojo the burst will either be black w/ a white pin stripe on the top, silver, or grey. im contemplating doing a tummy cut on the back. so idk yet if ill put the fabric on the back yet...

I hate to keep hyjackin your threads, so I will ask 1st. I have a cloth paisley body in the works I can post if you think it may inspire or provoke methodology thought etc


EDIT: Heck, here is the thread when I did it.

http://www.tdpri.com/forum/tele-home-depot/270596-paisley-cloth-glue-edge-filler-advice.html


It is in a box awaiting me to get a shop....

ya man dont worry about it!

thats one nice pattern u found there!
any help, advice, or suggestions u can offer from ur build experience is greatly appreciated!

im a total neeewbee... to the whole guitar building experience.

ya man dont worry about it!

thats one nice pattern u found there!
any help, advice, or suggestions u can offer from ur build experience is greatly appreciated!

im a total neeewbee... to the whole guitar building experience.

I think I laid it out in that thread...

when i wrote that reply i had not read ur thread yet.

where did u get ur poly-cril? what u did with ur finish is exactly what i was planning to do with my project.

do u think it would be possible to put a round over on the body after the fabric was glued on? like a 1/8th round over so nothing to dramatic.

do u think it would be possible to put a round over on the body after the fabric was glued on? like a 1/8th round over so nothing to dramatic.

I'd want to test that on a scrap, hate to see a pull and have to start over.

I am not going to do it the same way on the next one.

Seriously, this one with black edges!


http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m639/smitty_d/TDPRI/Photo-0125.jpg


Is this an Indian fabric shop?

Also, change the url tags to img to embed them into the post like above.

Luke.

i got the fabric at the local Joanns in the mall near my house.

im leaning towards the black burst myself. im contemplating using white pin stripe tape to give it a little class.

robt57 i definately will be running alot of test pieces to c how the different methods r gona work out.

later today ill post some pics of the other aspects from the build that ive already assembled.

pickups
hardware
neck blank. (i havent decided what the headstock style should be...) any suggestions?
nut material
fretboard wood (ill prolly end up doing a couple practice ones on some maple i have laying around.

heres the fretboard blank i have selected

http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m639/smitty_d/TDPRI/Photo-0132-1.jpg

heres the neck ill prolly use for this build

http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m639/smitty_d/TDPRI/Photo-0130-1.jpg

or
http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m639/smitty_d/TDPRI/Photo-0131-1.jpg

and all the hardware ive collected so far.

http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m639/smitty_d/TDPRI/Photo-0134-1.jpg
http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m639/smitty_d/TDPRI/Photo-0135.jpg

chrome neck plate
chrome jackplate
chrome straplocks
chrome knobs
.047 orange drop cap
3-way toggle switch
mono jack
500k push/pull pot
500k mini pot (can use fullsize pot if need arises)
6-in line grover mini tuners
chrome string ferrules
plack pickup ring thin
copper shielding tape
chrome seymour duncan 59

still need to purchase:

chrome tele 3 barrel bridge
tele bridge pickup
miniwax polyacrylic high gloss finish
buffing wheels
buffing compound
dunlop medium jumbo (6150)
9.5" radius sanding block
trussrod - martin style from stewmac.

i glued up some test pieces of the fabric using tightbond finish and trim glue and a clear gel craft glue.

the tightbond seemed to absorb to much into the fabric itself.

the clear gel seemed to have the best adhesion and it didnt seem to soak up into the fabric at all. ( if it did i couldnt tell)

I rolled tight bond on top after laying the cloth down while still wet when I did mine FWIW.

yellow Tight bond or clear rob57?

yellow Tight bond or clear rob57?

Exterior yellow, which drys clear.

robt57 what type of fabric did u use? was it polyester or a cotton blend?

was there any cloudiness after all the glue dried?

robt57 what type of fabric did u use? was it polyester or a cotton blend?

was there any cloudiness after all the glue dried?

Cotton, and no.

Got the house with the shop under contract last night, so maybe soon I will be spraying some clear on some bodies.... ;)

the fabric that im using in a cotton and poly blend. 80/20 i think.

today i went back over the test pieces and saturated them with their respecting glues to c how the fabric reacted to being totally immersed in glue.

congrats on the house! hope u can get up and running soon!

After a few tests I decided 'any' stretch the material would/could allow was going to not be a material I'd use FWIW.

the fabric i chose doesnt stretch... i guess unknowingly i helped myself. lol. im gona go check on my test pieces. and report back later tonight.

I've done tests, and when I finally do mine, i'll be saturating the cloth with sanding sealer, and laying it on. after testing with modge, weldbond and shellac, that seems the best, but with the dip method I am about to pioneer, it kills off the potentia of bleeding, because, well it's all equally bled. Stretchy fabrics, doesn't seem to make much of a difference.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h156/tvvoodoo/Guitar%20shop%20pics/paisleytesting.jpg

some of the new toys that i got!
http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m639/smitty_d/TDPRI/Photo-0138.jpg
i had my first tearout today it wasnt bad at all. i know what i did wrong... but it glued in pretty good only a little bit of filler will be needed. maybe none at all cause i still have to plane 1/4" off the top.
http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m639/smitty_d/TDPRI/Photo-0135-1.jpg
http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m639/smitty_d/TDPRI/Photo-0136.jpg
ah the powder that now covers most of my clothes and alot of the shop floor! thats a purdy sight!
http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m639/smitty_d/TDPRI/Photo-0137.jpg

ah my inspiration! oh srry my elixr to life! muahha! well a fountain drink from the local watering hole ya!
http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m639/smitty_d/TDPRI/Photo-0139.jpg



i wana ask an the readers opinion. is this fabric hidious? i was thinking about using it to line a guitar case.
http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m639/smitty_d/TDPRI/Photo-013.jpg

Maybe for a Hello Kitty Guitar... :oops:



i wana ask an the readers opinion. is this fabric hidious? i was thinking about using it to line a guitar case.
http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m639/smitty_d/TDPRI/Photo-013.jpg

ya that fabric is from the early 70's... its really authentic lol.

Hideous. Make a muumuu with it.

ya that fabric is hideous... no worries ill prolly end up throwing it away anyway.

a little update on the tele, i had a tearout when flush trimming the top to the body. its been successfully glued back on and filled. next ill be able to thickness sand the whole body!

on a side note i made a trip to the nearest woodcraft and i picked up some beautiful white ash for another build that im planing out right now.

i got the tearout patched last night and tomorrow i will get the body sanded to thickness.
then work on the roundover of the edges.

Have you decided on a bridge pickup yet?

This looks like it's gonna be an awesome build!

i got a bridge and pickup set off of fleabay... it looks like itll be ok. it said it was an alnico magnet. the bridge is the 3 barrel vintage style.

Look forward to seeing how this turns out.

its been hard the last few weeks to get any shop time in. thursday night i got a 4" joiner and a really solid delta table saw out of the late 60s! it weighs like 200lbs. itll work for another 50 years!

so im pretty much set with tools for the mooment.

yesterday i was able to get the maple cap planned to thickness and now the body is
1.75" thick! today later today im gona finish sand the edges and try to do the round over if i have enough time.

ill post pics tonight or tomorrow.

yesterday i was able to get the maple cap planned to thickness and now the body is
1.75" thick! today later today im gona finish sand the edges and try to do the round over if i have enough time.

ill post pics tonight or tomorrow.

Maple cap? Why? Just paisley both sides!!

lucretia: the body was a little more that 1 3/8'' i really didnt like how thin the body was... i only added 3/8" of material to the body. i really like the weight now. it was just to light before.

this post will be a pic up date and a progress update.

heres the tearout that happened a week ago a before pic
http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m639/smitty_d/TDPRI/Photo-0134-2.jpg
all glued up and clamped back into place
http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m639/smitty_d/TDPRI/Photo-0136.jpg

heres a pic of the body to the 1 3/4" thickness
http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m639/smitty_d/TDPRI/Photo-0141.jpg

i finished cutting out my router template now i can make a tele body a whole lot easier!
http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m639/smitty_d/TDPRI/Photo-0140-1.jpg

heres a few pics of the new to me joiner and table saw. (i also got a 12" planer today)
http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m639/smitty_d/TDPRI/Photo-0138-1.jpg
http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m639/smitty_d/TDPRI/Photo-0139-1.jpg

srry for the lack of posting the last week. its been pretty crazy lately with trying to find a job and goin to interviews and the like. im planing on making a neck pcoket later today. i was able to scrounge up some 3/4 mdf from an old computer desk.

i got my bridge pickup and bridge today! and an added bonus of strap buttons that were stuck to the magnet of the pickup. ill post pics later.

the routing yesterday didnt happen due to a slight chop saw accident and a nice chunk taken out of my ring finger... no lost fingers yet...

i got my bridge pickup and bridge today! and an added bonus of strap buttons that were stuck to the magnet of the pickup. ill post pics later.

the routing yesterday didnt happen due to a slight chop saw accident and a nice chunk taken out of my ring finger... no lost fingers yet...

Ouch , sorry bout your finger , hope it'll heal up good .

Careful w/ those chops saws dude , I'd hate to see you have to mod your tele to a 5 string. Look forward to seeing this build i think its gonna be cool!

..... due to a slight chop saw accident and a nice chunk taken out of my ring finger... no lost fingers yet...

Someone sent me this on Facebook....and I thought of you :shock:

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc102/lakelandfiddler/393288.jpg

Ouch!

Best of luck with that finger.

the finger is all healed up now! just a descent scar left to remind me to be more careful and to be thankful to have all my finger tips.

srry ive been away from the thread for so long. works been crazy these last few weeks.

ive come to a slight halting point in the build. simply put i need a neck and since money for a neck isnt in the budget at the moment.

i want this build to be done right so im waiting to get the neck before i do any major routing on the body ie. pickups bridge and neck pocket. and i dont have the tools or time for neck building at the moment.

this is going to be a slow build...

hopefully i will have a better work schedule by the 2012 build challenge. i have another build that i came up with during a fevery 3 day bug that is going around and the build even passed my 3 day rule of decision making!

i promise to update this thread with every bit of new progress on my build no matter how long its going to take.

Someone sent me this on Facebook....and I thought of you :shock:

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc102/lakelandfiddler/393288.jpg

ROTFLMAO! A few years back had a new guy join our team in construction. Showed up with a "skil" saw with the gaurd removed. I made a joke that using that saw must take some "Skill" or something like that and ultimately told him to don't use that saw on the job without the gaurd because it's not safe. He jumped back at me that he's been doing this for years and to pretty much ****. A couple days later dropping some decking on a roof and I hear from the other side a blood curdling scream. Yep, you guessed it. Mr. I am a pro ran the saw through the top of his leg cutting a piece of wood. :lol: Moral of the story, when using tools that can cut the crap out of you. Better safe than sorry.

To the OP, looking forward to seeing this job completed. Nice work and protect thy fingers.

yeah, i am a bit of a girl around anything that can remove my fingers. iv cut my self bad enough in the kitchen. hah.. not the shop, guess i better start acting the same way around knifes.. i have this bad habit of keeping all my objects razor sharp ever since i picked up the hobbie of hand forging knives.. go figure.. moral o fthe story sharper knife is not always a safe knife as the saying goes. lOL... good luck on the build.
chris.

today i was able to get a trussrod for my neck! idk if its the right size tho...

is 17-1/4" to big? it ended up being only $10.25 and i can always trade it out for a smaller one.

im thinking for the neck i might try my hand at a 3L+3R more of a classical style that the traditional tele style.