#bastardcaster

[turndownmatt]

fun little setup from last night... Fuzz, delay and this magical little pedal called a slow engine into a ditto looper

[jesseaxe]

Mandocaster. I *almost* pulled the trigger on this one. #weirdinstruments #mandolin #bastardcaster #thingsiwantbutdontreallyneed (at El Tropicano River Walk Hotel) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuPiCXCFrpJD-rRjNOfv8B1od-ETnkfFTSK8qw0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=zi4qztvooo5v

[collarcityguitars]

Fender style Telecaster with pine body, chopped bridge, and Seymour Duncan pickups #tele #telecaster #bastardcaster #seymourduncan #1959 #wilkinson #pine (at Collar City Guitars)

[izakaya]

It's a custom custom.

I haven't posted in quite a while, because of an awesome reason...

I have my own custom guitar now, but not enough, i built it myself.

And when i say, i did it myself includes everything. I cut the frets, the slots, i put them in the fretboard, i wound my own pickups, i drilled the holes for the sidedots and inlays, worked on the nut and so on.

It's a mahogany body with a thick zebrawood top and a maple neck with ebony fingerboard and some zebrawood veneer on the (reversed) headstock. The pickups are wound quite moderate and the neck one has 12 single magnets, so that it sounds like a real single coil when split. The Wilkinson vibrato is floating, the tuners are Kluson locking.

Building a guitar is one of the most exciting experiences i had in my life so far. It's almost magic, how big squares of wood transform to a musical instrument, it's fantastic how much love you can put into every little detail and what mistakes you can make. 

All that took place at luthier Thomas Stratmanns workshop in Hannover. He is a experienced builder and had over 700 people built their guitar dreams in his Hannover workshop or (a few years ago) in Formentera. I do highly recommend this to everybody who is serious about guitars, because, even if you never built another guitar in your life, you learn so much about setting up the guitar, about electronics and what to look after when buying a factory guitar.