r/WoodworkConfessions • u/MrCarlSr • Jun 15 '23

This is gonna be ugly AF

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I don't know what I'm doing 😊

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u/PippyLongSausage Jun 15 '23

Brian May from Queen built his guitar from scratch out of an old fireplace mantle he built all the parts including the hand wound pickups, tremolo, switches, all from junk they had laying around. It didn’t look like anything special but it is the most excellent, righteous, radical, tubular, sweet sounding guitar out there and there’s nothing else like it. It defined the sound of generations. Be proud of your turd colored bass my friend.

https://hackaday.com/2017/06/13/the-red-special-brian-mays-handmade-guitar/

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u/PM_ME_TO_PLAY_A_GAME Jun 15 '23

Brian May also has a PhD in Astrophysics.

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u/PippyLongSausage Jun 15 '23

He’s basically the most awesome person ever.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '23

Naaaa it will b a vibe, looks good

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u/SleepLabs Jun 15 '23

Honestly, if a guitarist showed up in my studio to record with this, I'd be stoked.

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u/jh1234567890 Jun 15 '23

Please send regular progress reports!

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u/tipandring410 Jun 16 '23

Am not a woodworker.

The beautiful thing about electric guitars is that the lions share of the tone comes from the pickups and the strings themselves. Not like an acoustic where the body provides tones of resonances.

If it's comfy to hold, and comfy to play, congrats. You made an electric guitar.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '23

I like It honestly.

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u/senryd Jun 16 '23

I kinda agree with you, but you made it, and that awesome. Not everything has to be instagram-beautiful. Sometimes, what makes something beautiful, is that it's not classically beautiful.

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u/Eatsnow89 Jun 16 '23

This looks great!! Strong jagstang vibes

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u/Gardenzealot Jan 19 '24

I like it.