If you can't afford them...build them! Here are 2 of my 3 #DeeBeeCaster™ #partscaster #Tele-style builds, using @maverick_guitar bodies, and either #Allparts or #StewMac necks. Maverick bodies are very affordable, as are StewMac necks, so it helps keep the cost down. The #candyapplered #guitar on the right was my first attempt at #guitarbuilding, and suffice it to say I made some grave errors! Now let's never speak if it again! 😁 But by the time I got to the #thinline in #Surfgreen (build #3) I was getting better at it, so it is actually a nice playing and sounding guitar! #telecaster #teletuesday #fender #replica #guitarbuild #diy #build #guitarphotography
Homemade super light #surfgreen #thinline #TeleTuesday. With body by @maverick_guitar and neck by #Allparts. #guitar #guitars #fender #telecaster #Tele #partscaster #diy #build #homemade #DeeBeeCaster™ #guitarcollection #guitarphotography
Here's one I have been saving up...my buddy @michaelsegui is building a #Telecaster, and here is the copper metal flake finish on it, prior to clear coating. Look at them sparkles. It's going to be killer when it gets all glossed up! Since he works weekends at @folkwaymusic, Mikey has access to some seriously skilled people to help him do finishes...I believe he enlisted @guitarfixr for this job, and I believe this is a custom mix of #Reranch #lacquers they are calling "Angry Salmon". No wait...that was the last one they did. This one is called "Disgruntled Doberman". Or was it "Slightly Miffed Muskox"? F*ck I am terrible with names! What would you call it? There is a prize for best name!* #guitar #guitars #build #homemade #partscaster #diyguitars #fender #tele #replica #teletuesday #guitarphotography #nitrocellulose #lacquer #guitarfinishing *Sadly (for you) the prize is my admiration and eternal respect.
One more view of my sexy new @stohnguitars stone #picks and key chain atop my homemade #DeeBeeCaster™ #Thinline with body by #Toronto's @maverick_guitar. It's #Canada's birthday today, so I am off work! So many reasons to celebrate... 😉 #guitar #guitars #stohnguitars #stonepicks #fender #telecaster #replica #tele #diy #build #homemadeguitar #swag #guitarphotography #pickphotography
Flashback #TeleTuesday to the lovely #Warmoth #parts-#Telecaster put together by #luthier and repair-person extraordinaire Grant, of @folkwaymusic in #Waterloo, Canada. #OlympicWhite, with tort 'guard, and a lovely #birdseye #figured #tinted #maple #neck. The steel #chair (and the matching #cabinet behind it) are presented here for my friend @bradleyworkshop who appreciates such objets d'art of worn, but #classic #vintage #industrial beauty! ;) #guitar #guitars #fender #replica #partscaster #tele #build #diy #project #guitarphotography #chairphotography
#DeeBeeCaster™ #4 update: progress has been slower than anticipated, but things are shaping up! Body by @maverick_guitar, Toronto. #guitar #guitars #telecaster #tele #teletuesday #fender #replica #maverickguitarparts #allparts #stewmac #diy #project #build #guitarbuilding #guitarphotography
One last #TeleTuesday post...or more accurately "#DeeBeeCaster™ Tuesday" post! Here's my new @maverick_guitar floral Tele #style body...and look! It's got a neck now! A maple one in fact! OK, I admit the #build is not going as quickly as forecast. I am sooooooo lazy! ;) But it's looking good already...and the folks at #MaverickGuitarParts were totally right - the neck fits like a glove. A very, very tight glove! It's an excellent join...hopefully means more resonance. Wha? Oh, the old looking red-covered #book in front? Why yes! That is a first Canadian edition of #ConanDoyle's "The Valley of Fear" the last of the #Sherlock #Holmes novels (but not the last of his short stories). This book was printed in 1914, making it 102 years old! #guitar #guitars #homemadeguitar #luthier #diy #partscaster #fenderguitars #fendertelecaster #replica #guitarphotography
This just in from @maverick_guitar...looks like the #DeeBeeCaster™ #4 project is underway! :D #guitar #guitars #build #diy #partscaster #fender #telecaster #replica #floral #paisley #homemade #guitarphotography
And here is that #Thinline #DeeBeeCaster™ from the last post, mere minutes after getting it's new neck attached. The aged and tinted #Allparts #neck fit perfectly and snugly into the neck pocket and no shims were required to make it nicely playable with low action. I'll have to weigh the whole kit and caboodle again, but with it's old neck it was below 6 lbs, and I don't think the new neck is any heavier that the old one...so all's I am saying is this is a groovy 5 lb-and-change, #surfgreen #tone machine, complete with deluxe f-hole! :D Body by #Toronto's own @maverick_guitar. #maverickguitarparts #telecaster #tele #replica #guitar #guitars #homemadeguitar #partscaster #diy #build #projectguitar #guitarcollection #guitarphotography
You know your #guitar is going to be very lightweight when the #body, #pickups, #electronics, #bridge, #pickguard and strap buttons altogether weigh only 3 lbs, 10.75 oz! Here's my neck-less #Thinline #DeeBeeCaster™ during the process of neck swapping I did earlier this week. As you may know I am obsessed with lightweight #guitars, and this #Telecaster thinline style body by @maverick_guitar is about as light as they get! With the #neck, #tuners and #strings it's still only about 6 lbs. Heaven. #guitarcollection #partscaster #fender #tele #replica #guitarphotography #surfgreen #maverickguitarparts #toronto #build #project #diy #homemade #luthier
#Surfgreen #thinline #DeeBeeCaster™ with its old neck, before I changed it. Body by @maverick_guitar, cowboy #strap is by #Jaykco, and you can see my nifty @atlasstands neck rest too. #guitar #guitars #homemadeguitar #partscaster #diy #build #fender #telecaster #replica#relic #tele #guitarcollection #guitarphotography
The biggest advantage of a bolt on #neck is that you can mix and match with your various #Telecasters...or in this case your #homemade #DeeBeeCaster™ #partscasters! Just for giggles, I swapped the tinted, aged, #Allparts neck from the black @maverick_guitar body to the #surfgreen #Thinline one. I have not quite finished installing the #StewMac neck on the the black one yet, so it'll be out of commission for a bit. #teletuesday #guitar #guitars #build #diy #fender #telecaster #replica #tele #guitarcollection #guitarphotography
#DeeBeeCaster™ #Tele replicas numbers 1, 3 and 2, built by me during my "I want to build my own #guitars" phase in 2014. Who needs a #vintage #blackguard #blonde '52 #Telecaster when you can have the fulfilling satisfaction of building 3 of your own Tele clones from parts, right? :\ #guitar #homemade #build #diy #fender #fenderguitars #partscaster #guitarphotography #teletuesday
More #TeleTuesday fun with #DeeBeeCaster™ number 3, a #thinline with double bound #surfgreen @maverick_guitar #body, #StewMac maple #neck, genuine #Fender hardware, #Lollar #pickups and #replica #Kluson #tuners, #CTS #pots and cloth insulated wiring. And under 6 lbs! #partscaster #telecaster #homemade #build #guitar #guitars #guitarphotography
Homemade DeeBeeCaster™ #2. I made this guitar because I always wanted a Fender American Vintage Reissue ‘62 Custom Telecaster in black, but in 2 or 3 years of shopping at literally dozens of local guitar shops I never once saw a single one in stock. And then they discontinued them in 2012 or 13. So when I met David from Maverick Guitar parts and found he made his own double bound Tele style bodies...I decided to build my own. That will teach you guitar shops to not stock guitars I like! ;)
My homemade DeeBeeCaster! This was the first one I built, and I made ALL the mistakes on this one...from drilling holes in the wrong places, or off center, to sanding through the lacquer on the #headstock and damaging the decal, to misaligning the #pickguard and tuners and plugging holes and redrilling, to putting the #neck on crooked so the high E string was no longer above the #fretboard after about fret 15!
My homemade DeeBeeCaster collection. Bodies by Maverick Guitar Parts of Toronto.