let's see your tribute guitar or bass

It's not quite a direct tribute to any one specific thing, but I did keep in mind the kind of cool, classy allure of 1950's Nashville when I was building my Nocaster:



Set up with Am. Std. or equivalent parts in a Nocaster-style wiring scheme, I dug the flamey mahogany body and thought the gold bits accented by the pearloid knob domes wound look fantastic being played by a dude with a white-piped black cowboy shirt, or in a Nudie suit. I'll refer to it as my "50's Tributecaster," even though there isn't a whole lot of direct influence, other than "that" over-the-top, black-Cadillac, pill-popping idea of Nashville.

 

Roughly based on Dusty's signature PBass....

 

Dad in laws '56 and my relicaster...

 

My "George" guitars.

 

Some of you might have seen this in a different forum. Not a tribute to another guitar, rather to Harley Davidson and my dad.

Dad was a Harley dealer before the war (WWII). He never threw anything away, and after he passed, I ended up with some of his old Harley stuff, including part of a wooden crate that a bike was shipped in, which was marked with his name and address, So I made a guitar out of it. The headstock decal is also a '39-'40 original. Dad was also a coin collector, so I used indian/buffalo nickels from his birth year (1917) for the volume/tone.

I have enough of the crate left to do another guitar... probably a tele-style.

 

I love this! Great tribute.

 

This is fantastic, as it all works and looks like a custom shop kind of creation, as opposed to a bunch to stuff stuck to a guitar!

 

Now THAT is a family photo! Love it!

Does your bass player use a Hofner?

John

 

Here's my Mike Dirnt Tele P-Bass tribute… found the Dirnt USA nitro body on ebay, Warmoth Tele bass neck, Duncan QPs, Gotoh tuners and bridge.

 

Yes, left handed Hofner and Rickenbacker.
(a few more)

 

I envy you.

 

More of a "tribute" than an exact replica, but... here's a Wolf I did a few years ago:

A Rosebud/Tiger inspired model is on my to do list for someday as well

 

Nice! I've already got my scale plans made for Wolf. It's not super high on the list, but one day...

Is yours neck-through?

John

 

This is my John Deacon (bassist from Queen) tribute 1968 Fender Precision.

 

Thanks! I did this one with a set neck, but if I were to do another I'd probably do a neck-through so it didn't have such a heel joint

 

Caffeine tribute

 

Here is my Terry Kathster tribute to the Great one.

 

Here's mine. It's more a tribute to than a true replica of Andy Summers telecaster.





I'll get around to relicing it (naturally) one day I hope.

 

Looks cool man! I've been wanting to make a replica of his tele for a while now!

 

Hi friends...all of these guitars were made by me in different years for my beloved granddaughter