Parts-Caster

Hello,

I'm making a telecaster from parts I buy off of Ebay and Craigslist, and have decided to blog about this.

I am not going to make the body.
I am not going to make the neck.

Why would you assume I'd do so much work? Is it because you're an ass hole?

I will fit the neck to the body, probably do some wood-filling/patching, install the electronics and hardware myself, and attempt a decent setup. Along the way, I'll be explaining the reasons motivating my preferences and choices.

Some of these choices will be based on what I think will produce the best sounding guitar. I'll go into detail about different tones I want to produce, and some ideas about what sounds "good" and why. I'll try to place this in a mildly historical context of modern popular music as well.

Yet some more of these choices will be based on my expansive and preternatural knowledge of Rock n' Roll music, and what is good for it.

Yet even some more will be based on my impeccable aesthetic sense of what disparate parts will make a cool guitar once clumsily glued, screwed, or soldered together ("Glued and screwed" did I just write the tag line for the next Larry the Cable Guy movie?).

As I am the fucking man, it probably behooves you to read every one of my posts twice. Don't be afraid to ask questions. Maybe pull out a dictionary and buy my seperately sold Cliff Notes to help you cut through some of the subtext.

Please hold tight my hand, gird your loins, double-check to make sure you girded them up REAL nice, and take the first steps of this journey with me...as I build a telecaster.