After 11 guitars I thought I was ready to design my “own” guitar. All the previous ones are basically copies/replicas of famous guitar models. So based on the things I liked with the other models, I came up with this design. This first one, consist of the components and Read more…
This “thinline sunburst” is the result of a custom project I did for a friend of mine. The back of the body is sipo mahogany and the top is maple. The pickups are Seymour Duncan ’59 in neck position and JB in bridge position. The neck is a memory of Read more…
This guitar was finished in November 2009. It is built highly inspired by a ’59 Gibson Les Paul Standard The dimensions and construction details is fairly close to the original although some details will differ slightly. This is definitively the most time consuming guitar I have built. Body and neck is Read more…
I managed to get hold of a spare genuine Fender telecaster neck from a local guitar collector. For all the other guitars I have built the necks from scratch. But I would be a waste not to use such a nice finding. The routing templates for the thinline-style body were still around, Read more…
I could not really leave the thought to build replicas of the “original” guitars, the ones that Fender and Gibson was building in the 50’s and 60’s. For me, it was to get closer to the origin of guitar making. Now, I was not just inspired by the copying the outer shape Read more…
Serial Production? Well, almost! It happened coincidently that, both a colleague of mine and an tremendously skilled guitar friend of mine asked if I could build them a similar guitar as the 3’rd one. Well, the templates were already made and I started the parallell project without hesitation. The guitars are both very Read more…
OK, What’s this? Well the second guitar ended up with my daughter and then my teenager boy wanted something more typical for a teenager boy. After seeking inspiration among the available guitar shapes out there, we settled with this one. The body is a 3 piece alder laminate and the Read more…
Well, for those of you that has not yet built a guitar, I can tell you that it probably is more addictive than any drug out there. Even if you think your new homebuilt guitar is really nice, you just want to try to make a better one. This time Read more…
Almost directly after the first guitar I started to plan my next guitar. At this time I read some more how to build guitars (lots of information is available on the internet, but believe me, a good book such as Melvin Hiscock’s Build your own electric guitar is greatly recomended). Read more…
This is my first guitar that was completed 2007. I used a “Ibanez RG”- inspired bodyshape. The material is a 2 piece laminated mahogany body, and a 3 piece laminated neck. The neck is glued to the body at an angle of a few degrees (almost like a Gibson guitar). Read more…