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Tele Build with hand tools

Posted by Paulo Renato de Jesus Gonçalves on March 16, 2015 at 8:24pm

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 :)

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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.

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

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

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

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My amazing thickness sander :)

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Radius on the fretboard.

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

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And then I just have the almost final photo:

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Cheers

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Comments

  • 14 buck bass (aka antonio) March 19, 2015 at 9:42pm

    pretty cool man totally dig it ,  nice work

  • Monterey March 19, 2015 at 8:49am
    Oh that is cool, I'm going to have to make one!!
  • Paulo Renato de Jesus Gonçalves March 19, 2015 at 7:36am

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

  • Monterey March 19, 2015 at 5:59am
    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?
  • Paulo Renato de Jesus Gonçalves March 17, 2015 at 5:01pm

    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.

  • gary sheldon March 17, 2015 at 1:57pm

    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.

  • Bad Finger (Eric) March 17, 2015 at 7:52am

    Very nice.

  • darryl kernaghan March 17, 2015 at 3:13am

    nice going

  • the anonymous pick March 17, 2015 at 3:05am

    yumble pie   ;-)

  • Thorsten Hinrichsen March 17, 2015 at 2:29am
    What a looker! Great craftmanship.
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