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I'm teaching my brother how to build a body. He's making a Jazzy bodied bass, and I'm making a telecaster for my boss's birthday. Half of the parts for it are going to be scavaged from his parts bin in the shop , and I stole the poor abused Van Halenized tele to make the template.


My little bro working on the neck pocket template

The tele

Bitchin! I wish a co-worker would make me a guitar. Hell, bring me picks once in a while.

That EVH Tele needs to be sanded and put into the woodchipper with Steve Buscemi.

light rail coyote wrote:

Isn't that body a bit thin?

Doog wrote:Isn't that body a bit thin?

light rail coyote wrote:I stole the poor abused Van Halenized tele to make the template.

And this, ladies and gentleman, is why the kind people of Shortscale are making Doog's Tele for him.

Malik wrote:

Doog wrote:Isn't that body a bit thin?

light rail coyote wrote:I stole the poor abused Van Halenized tele to make the template.

And this, ladies and gentleman, is why the kind people of Shortscale are making Doog's Tele for him.

*smacks forehead*

DGNR8 wrote:That EVH Tele needs to be sanded and put into the woodchipper with Steve Buscemi.

hah that thing was even more horrid when we got it in. The whole body was rattlecaned black with electrival tape shit like wan halen did. The paint was so crappy though that I managed to get it all off and save the sunburst underneath.

More progress

Isn't that scratchplate a bit thin?


MALIK: THIS IS A JOKE. KEEP UP.

Isn't that pickguard a bit paper?

Seriously that white Jazzmaster is the shit. I think they look great in a really crisp clean white.

Mike wrote:Isn't that pickguard a bit paper?

Seriously that white Jazzmaster is the shit. I think they look great in a really crisp clean white.

Yeah, we were just planning it out, He's going to make one out of a record for it though.

light rail coyote wrote:

Mike wrote:Isn't that pickguard a bit paper?

Seriously that white Jazzmaster is the shit. I think they look great in a really crisp clean white.

Yeah, we were just planning it out, He's going to make one out of a record for it though.

Better be a rubbish record, no ruining a classic album to make it! It's a mith that the great musical vibes will make you better, you'll just have one less good album in your collection.

Looking good though. But the photos in the original post won't show for me

Use a beatles album and make sure bobarscake see's its distruction!

More Cowbell wrote:Use a beatles album and make sure bobarscake see's its distruction!

:E

Alyn wrote: Better be a rubbish record, no ruining a classic album to make it! It's a mith that the great musical vibes will make you better, you'll just have one less good album in your collection.

Or you could always just buy another copy, which would probably work out the same or less as pricey as buying a scratchplate blank..

The record store I go to has used records for super cheap. I can get a bunch for just a couple dollars, way cheaper than pickgaurd material

True, or Oxfam, you can get 12" singles for like 50p.

I got that on 12" for a few quid in SCOPE, turns out it's only worth like 5 quid anyways.. might make a custom scratchy with it sometime..

up here i go to the Amoeba on Haight Street and Rasputin's in Campbell for records, never pay over $10 for anything (except Magical Mystery Tour with the colour booklet, was about $14). most used records are about $4. There's always Goodwill as well.

about 10 years ago i cut up a copy of the Smashing Pumpkins Pisces Iscariot vinyl and made a jag-stang pickguard out of it, it was cool cause it was see-through orange. i never used it though.

Oh shit, Pisces goes for big bucks on eBay now

Yeah, I'd be gutted if I cut up something like that, you wanna be cutting up like old Barry White singles and shit that aren't worth anything to anyone. Maybe Bananarama, stuff people send to charity shops because they don't want anyone to know they ever had it.