First build from scratch (tele)

I have to agree with you here. I’ve trashed the milk paint plan and will go the tru-oil route. Maybe not a good idea, but I had to put on a coat before the binding goes on (still in the mail) just to see where this is going. Looks promising. Tru-oil does bring it more to life.

 

Put on the new binding yesterday, using the method described by someone earlier in the thread. Looks promising.

 

Getting closer now. I’ve got the sides flush, though it needs a little more sanding on both sides of the neck pocket.





Also got a nice wood delivery yesterday. Cherry blanks for three necks, some old rosewood fretboard blanks (from an old norwegian furniture factory that shut down thirty years ago) that’s 14 mm thick so each blank might cover two necks, so theoretically four necks (one is for a Flying V I’m planning to start on once this tele body is done)... Ufortunately I don’t have a band saw to split the rosewood, but I’m working on it.

The big wood blank underneath the cherry and rosewood is elm. Haven’t figured out what to do with, other than it needs to be some kind of thinline guitar. It’s so stupidly heavy.

 

Thanks for kind words. There have been some f**k-ups along the way, but I managed to fix most of them. There’s a flaw on the frontside binding that’s really bugging me.

Of course, I choose to upload pictures of the neatest parts.

 

Working on the neck template. Nice fit so far. Ordered truss rods yesterday.

Used a Warmoth neck to do the heel tracing and a plan of a 62 custom headstock for the headstock (differences between the Warmoth and the 62 custom headstock).





There. I think I’m done. Looks correct, and all the measures should be right. I’m going to try making a test neck from some scrap wood meant for house building and not guitar building, just to see if I got everything right.

 

For the sake of posting...

Update is that I’ve ordered and received some more tools. Bought a new router (Triton, to use as a table router), plate for mounting the router to my diy router table, and a belt/spindle sander (also Triton). We’re having a family get-together today, but I hope I could get started on getting the gear up and running buy the end of tomorrow.