Cigar-Box-Guitar-O-Rama

  After building this one, I no longer have much faith in claims of "tone woods", because this one NAILS the tone from The Rolling Stones' "Brown Sugar" and "Start Me Up"... I had an aging Telecaster neck pulled off an actual Tele, along with the bridge, control plate and enough other bits and pieces to put together a rough yet regal CBG that could pay tribute to arguably one of the (if not THE) most beloved Telecasters of all time. Of course, to be right, it HAD to have the all-maple neck and a PAF style humbucker in the neck position (flipped with the polepieces away from the neck). The middle control knob is for a hidden passive piezo "acoustic" pickup under the lid, and in addition to the 3-way switch you get a volume for the magnetic pickups and a master tone control. The deep box allowed me to use a "strat-style" jack (the "football" jack), and also was a good opportunity to use these heftier corner protectors too. I...

  I realize it's been a minute since I've posted here. My original intent was to do sort of a little "journal" as I built instruments, share some hints and tricks I learned along the way, and give folks something to get inspired with to build their own instruments. I dropped the ball, but I thought to myself that maybe something else I needed to do was share my completed instruments, because why would you even bother taking "advice" when you didn't even know if my work sucked or not?  So I'll still try to do better with dropping in to talk about some building techniques and tips, but I'll also post every couple weeks or so and showcase the builds themselves. I'll hopefully inspire you to think "outside the box", or if you're interested in supporting an independent mad-scientist like myself, you can reach out to buy one of my builds (or commission your own creation!).  Beginning next week I'll start dropping photos and descri...