Replica of a Fender Telecaster Guitar

I have a Yamaha Bass that I want to make a replica of … Any advice? Also, what advice does your son have for the electronics?

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Hi Obi,
I think your best bet for information about electronics, would be “The instrument makers forum” http://www.mimf.com/ You can get various wiring diagrams from the forum members. This forum is by Stewart Macdonald, the Guitar supply company.

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As a guitar player myself, WOW, I loved my old tele…I think I’m gonna have to do this…when I finish the stuff for my wife and gifts… I may be your age when I finish, but one day I’m gonna build myself a guitar. Nice work Mr. Cain

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Looks great!

Got a buddy at work that plays Bass and keeps saying we should build something. Probably when I get my Bandsaw and Jointer in a few months I will look into.

-- Kalamazoo, MI

I got plans to build an electric guitar here

Also if you go to my site and click on Global Wood Sourse they have a guitar gallery with “Through Body” necks, the best and strongest way to make a guitar. Also, I have a diagram for “scalloping” the neck so you don’t have to put metal frets.

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Dick, this is beautiful, not just the guitar itself (which is amazing) but the gift you have given your son.

The bonus touch was the name. He must brag about it to everyone he knows.

Stunning!!!

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Dick, your talents continue to amaze and impress me. One of my treasures is piece my Dad mad for me before I took up woodworking. I probably didn’t appreciate it as much as I should have at the time, but now that I know a little more about the thought and effort that goes into a project, and now that my Dad is no longer with us, you can imagine how I treasure this gift from my father.

I’m sure your son already had come to the same conclusion judging from what you have told us.

Lovely work, Dick.

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.hilsbiblechurch.org/

That’s amazing, Dick. If it hadn’t sounded good, you could have always used it in the kitchen as a cutting board. :-)

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Nice Charlie. ;) .... nothing like doing a little food prep, while your pickin’

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

I just read about another use for a Guitar. They’re holding the annual Last Chance Curling Bonspiel, in Hibbing this week.
There’s a Curler that usually comes with a curling broom attached to a Guitar, & he serenades the audience from down on the ice. Cool !!

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pretty guitar … excellent work

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

I think that it plays well is just an added benefit to great craftsmanship! Amazing work!

Thanks Guys,
My Son just made a video from a dance he recently played. When I get a copy I may try , & embed some of it on Lumberjocks.

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Dick! This is awesome! I’m a stratocaster collector. I just love guitars but have never taken the challenge of making one. Really nice!

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

Thanks Mott, You must be a Guitar picker also.

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Absolutely beautiful! I love the stripey body And I just enjoyed Sleep Walk too. Thank you.

-- Res severa verum gaudium - True pleasure is a serious business. http://www.folksy.com/shops/TreeGems

It looks great!

I missed this one the first time. Great job Dick! Always wanted en electric.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Thanks Gary, & eViolinist!

I have so many projects on here, every once in awhile they come back to life. LOL

I have to thank eVioinist for this.

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Dick,

I have a beautiful Korean built Tele style guitar with a spalted maple top. What they did was install a clear plexi pickguard for protection that still allowed the wood to show through.

What a great project for your son!

-- Ron, Bakersfield, CA. Measure twice, cut twice anyway.

Thank you Ron!

That’s a good idea, using Plexiglas for the pick guard.

I just embedded the Slide Guitar performance to this page, so you don’t have to jump around to look at it.

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My grandmother, fathers side was a Cain form Watertown NY. My son is James Cain

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I,m still trying to figure out where to leave messages and where to reply?

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Wow that’s beautiful it is good you waited your sons appreciation for you is much more now and he will appreciate the guitar a lot more. I have learned from reading that the wood used to make guitars was based more on availability than anything else contrary to common believe. You will get different results with different woods but hard dens wood sounds brite and softer wood sounds warm. Mixed wood sounds full.

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Beautiful job Dick. You certainly are a man of many talents.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Thanks Grumpy!

Hi jem, I also have a son named James Cain.

Could your Grandmother have been from upper Michigan at one time.

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How did you add your name to the headstock?

-- A tree is our most intimate contact with nature. - George Nakashima

I have a neighbor who makes vinyl signs.

Check out a computer graphics sign business in your area.

They can cut out stick on vinyl lettering of any design you have in mind.

My son is in this business in Hot Springs, AR, but he doesn’t do this online.

You can contact my Grandson, & he may be able to assist you in a design.

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