Prairie Custom Guitars

This is a body build for a fellow TDPRI and Canadian Guitar Forum

member rhh7 

He would just like an unfinished ash Tele® body

Picked up some ash yesterday,planed it down and set up a couple

examples for him to pick from 

He has decided to go with the straight grain

I will joint it and get it glued up today 

Well there was a choice of two blanks I had glued up

I had to flip one board in the above blank because of a bad spot

in it I could not work around

Here is the one I decided to use

I used my master template and did a drawing to follow

I did the rough cut on the bandsaw last night

Here is the end joints

Got a chance tonight,after cutting grass,roto-tilling the garden etc

to get the router after this thing

Put on the template and made 1 pass with the template bit

Pulled off the template,used the routed part for the router bearing to

run on and did another pass.A little work with some sandpaper....

Just have to find out the rest of the details

flat spot,etc,and I will finish it up

Been kinda falling behind on the old website

Better get some stuff updated 

Robert is going with a toploading bridge so there are  

 ferrule holes to mess with

Still have to drill the bridge mounting holes though

 He has decided on a neck humbucker

I managed to get the bridge pickup route and the

control cavity routed

 My humbucker template is made for using a pickup ring

The pickup fits really tight in the route

He would like a bigger route to give him a bit

more room to work with.He is mounting the pickup

in the guard so I am going to do a bigger route.

First I need to make a template

 I remembered I made a template when I first started this

for using a humbucker with a pickguard,doh

It's not a swimming pool route but it is bigger than a regular humbucker route 

A couple passes and we are finished

On to the neck pocket

Hmmmm,the template I use for the neck pocket uses the

string through holes to line it up.Well guess I will have to

drill some bridge holes in it and use them

Pins in,lined up,ready too route

One pass

Done 

 Next up

Wire channels and jack hole,but thats another day

Getting late and back to work tomorrow

Lets get this puppy finished

First,mark the flatspot.Not too big this time 

Over to the sander

Mark the center

Now we start the hole with a 1" bit to get the countersink

Then switch to a 7/8 bit  

Now for the wire channels

Where did you say it hurt?

In the neck pocket,through the neck pickup cavity

Next stop,control cavity 

Then from the bridge cavity to the control cavity

A hole to run the ground to the bridge

And guess what

I THINK WE ARE FINISHED

Robert wants to do all the sanding,roundover, etc himself 

 So here it is