Hi y'all! This is my first post since joining two days ago. The topic is electrics, so here's the 6-stringer I'm most proud of. Here's the story:
About 4 years ago I was looking at guitar parts on Ebay, and I came across this Tele bridge in gold, cut for a humbucker. $12.99 plus shipping, Buy It Now. So I bought it. My first thought after doing that and paying for it was. "Shoot! Now I gotta built a Tele!" I had built several Strat-type guitars, and some of my own design, but never before a Tele. I didn't really want a Tele either - my attitude has always been, "Why would you want a Tele when you can have a Strat?"
So I built this one from scraps and leftovers - all stuff I had lying around. Except the somewhat over-the-top logo inlaid in the body, which I had made up by Andy DePaule special for this thing. The pickguard is actually an inlay of book matched koa left over from another project, and the logo is inlaid into that.
The weird part is that this thing has become my favorite electric - it's the one I play in the church praise band when the song calls for an electric.
Next, my 5-string bass - also the one I play when I sub for the regular bass player in the praise band:
Kent Armstrong wound the pickups for me, and they really sound good.