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Matty, lets see the guitar.

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I have yet to take pics of the completed thing but here's a work-in-progress shot before the clear coat was shot:
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It's your guitar's cousin! Both are variations on a classic Fender Telecaster design. The body shape along with a ton of clever little details are my brother's creation and he's built 6 or 7 different models around the same basic shape. Found this pic of the one he actually uses himself:

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Bro and I built about a dozen instruments since 2004 - we set up a complete woodworking/guitar-building shop in Mommy's garage. I've built 3 guitars myself and sold the very first one to a musician friend who still uses it when she tours with her garage band.
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InTheHole
Nice...do you have to remove the hardware to apply the clear coat?
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Fo sho. The electronics are all fixed to the plastic bit on this one, so it's simply a matter of taking out a dozen screws to get her naked.

RogueJuror
matty we gotta partner up in some type of racket man
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I got the perfect plan Rogatien. You invest in or find me an investor for my 100% automated shop. I just need a mil or two to set it up and cover the staffing costs for the first year. [Brock Landers]Then when we're about to go bankrupt because no one wants to buy overpriced American-made instruments over perfectly decent made-in-China stuff that costs 10 times less, we start hollowing out chambers in the guitar bodies and we smuggle drugs all over the world while pretending to liquidate overstock.[/Brock Landers]

We're going to be rich Rogatien. :highfive:
 
Well...if you're serious...I would start by either giving them away or deep discounting them to small, start-up local bands in your area (I would customize them with the band graphic). If they sound/play as good as they look you may have something.
 
Market is oversaturated ITH. But sure, one could probably convince a bunch of pros to try their guitars and live off of special orders and repair work, but those who do that end up working for welfare-type pay. Takes a shitload of time to build just one instrument by hand, roughly 100 hours in our case.

If you wanna try to go big, you need to strike a deal with a Chinese or Korean plant to build cheap-ass knockoffs of your designs. The last guitar builder to make it really big was Paul Reed Smith in the late 80's-early 90's and he swore that his guitars would be so much superior to the rest (they were) that he could charge a premium (he sure did) and never have to sell Asian knockoffs (he never did while he was the main man there, but then he gradually lost control of the company and the suits finally introduced Korean shit.)

BTW, this is my first baby spitting out some gnarly rockabilly, making her Papa proud:

 
I'm a glorified bedroom guitarist reno. I played in crappy grunge bands in the late 90's then did Tom Waits-type stuff with a spoken word guy in the early 00's. These days I just make noise from time to time, noodling along backing tracks on the computer or improvising with a looper... anything from good-ol' blues-based rock to wanker-type neoclassical two-handed tapping shit. I have no style at all, but ask me to play something and I'll fake my way through it.

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Matt Rain
I'm a glorified bedroom guitarist reno. I played in crappy grunge bands in the late 90's then did Tom Waits-type stuff with a spoken word guy in the early 00's. These days I just make noise from time to time, noodling along backing tracks on the computer or improvising with a looper... anything from good-ol' blues-based rock to wanker-type neoclassical two-handed tapping shit. I have no style at all, but ask me to play something and I'll fake my way through it.

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that's mostly what I do. I do like to try and put together a song now and then, and it's always fun to jam with others.:pink:

ITH I always liked that Lou Reed song.
 
Fresh, unsolicited beauty shot of the headstock area:

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Today I've installed what is probably my most prized possession - a truss rod cover made out of rosewood and inlaid with mother-of-pearl, a gift my brother made himself about a decade ago. Electric guitar aficionados at Gamelive.com - all zero of you - will recognize the bird as the 12th fret inlay of your typical Paul Reed Smith guitar:

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That is all for now.

(I have very little to do during the day until further notice so yer gonna have to bear with me as I try to keep the uninteresting "baby pics" to a minimum.)

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