So this is my latest build, a telecaster based guitar.

Body and neck is AGBA

Fretboard is Bloodwood

Pickup covers are Olivewood

Body stripe and headstock back veneer is Pau Ferro

Knobs are Pau Ferro with olive woo tops

and the backcover has a piece of IPE(holding the strings)

Pickups are Tonerider

Here are some photos of this build:

First steps are to remove excess wood and get the basic shape.

I did this using a handsaw, a chisel and a hammer :)

Fine tuning the shape with sandpaper. In this fase of the build I use a belt sander belt instead of regular sand paper. They just last longer on this rough work.

The carving was done with the use of an angle grinder.

Cavities were drilled with the drill press and the material removed with a chisel.

THe neck was rough shaped with the angle grinder, and refined with the belt sander

My amazing thickness sander :)

Radius on the fretboard.

Making the neck more accessible using a rasp and the angle grinder.

And then I just have the almost final photo:

Cheers

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Comment by 14 buck bass (aka antonio) on March 19, 2015 at 2:42pm

pretty cool man totally dig it ,  nice work

Comment by Monterey on March 19, 2015 at 1:49am
Oh that is cool, I'm going to have to make one!!
Comment by Paulo Renato de Jesus Gonçalves on March 19, 2015 at 12:36am

Monteray I cannot do a video this week but it is all similar to this one.

Comment by Monterey on March 18, 2015 at 10:59pm
That sure is a good looking guitar, good job! I'm forced to be pretty Amish half the time too...working at getting more automated! Can you do a video using that thickness sander?
Comment by Paulo Renato de Jesus Gonçalves on March 17, 2015 at 10:01am

Many thanks for the kind comments!

It took about a month to make, counting with all the mistakes repair/redo :)

I don´t have many jigs (yet!) but that drill powered thickness sander is quite used. I will need to make a bigger one.

Comment by gary sheldon on March 17, 2015 at 6:57am

Paulo,

That is really nice work and you obviously have a lot of patience.  I particularly like your documenting the build with photos,  I am interested in your jigs too.  

Keep up the good work and keep posting info on your builds.  I work with limited power tools on my sailboat and am always interested in making jigs to make life easier and building faster and more accurate.  I built a "fret end bevel sanding block yesterday.

Comment by Bad Finger (Eric) on March 17, 2015 at 12:52am

Very nice.

Comment by darryl kernaghan on March 16, 2015 at 8:13pm

nice going

Comment by the anonymous pick on March 16, 2015 at 8:05pm

yumble pie   ;-)

Comment by Thorsten Hinrichsen on March 16, 2015 at 7:29pm
What a looker! Great craftmanship.

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