Pinecaster

[CanadianDave]

Looks like we’re taking the creative liberty of posting non-pedal builds in this thread, so here’s one of my summer projects.

I had a few old pine slabs left over from when my house was built in 1955. Originally, I filled the cracks and worm holes with gold epoxy, and turned them into shelves.

When I no longer needed the shelves, I plained them down, glued them, and turned them into a body blank.




Sold some junk on EBay to pay for a Mexican roasted tele neck with tuners all ready loaded.



I filled the grain with black filler, and finished it with de waxed shellac and waterlox.

 

[CanadianDave]

the bridge pickup is a Cavalier broadcaster style. I wax potted it with cedar balsam candles from Trader Joe’s.

Neck pickup is Seymour Duncan that I got used from Amazon warehouse deals, along with the bridge.



Pickguard was cut, and I drilled out my own panel so I didn’t have to live with a blade switch.



Since the photo was taken, I added a treble bleed.

The tone is a push-push that acts as a bypass to the tone and volume.



And here’s the back

 

[CanadianDave]

If you don’t include the cost of the neck that was paid for with my eBay flipping, my all-in cost was around $250

 

[BuddytheReow]

That’s pretty slick! Love how this turned out. How thick were your boards? 2 inch?

 

[CanadianDave]

That’s pretty slick! Love how this turned out. How thick were your boards? 2 inch?

Think they were a little thicker than 2 inch originally. I only have an electric hand planer, so that was a pain to get down to 1 3/4

 

[BuddytheReow]

Cool. How’d you get the body design down? A template or freehand?

 

[CanadianDave]

Cool. How’d you get the body design down? A template or freehand?

There’s a dude on EBay selling router templates for unique builds. That was intended for a Fano sp6. Last year I bought a Meteora template from him.

 

[jimilee]

I love everything about it.

 

[cwsquared]

There’s a dude on EBay selling router templates for unique builds. That was intended for a Fano sp6. Last year I bought a Meteora template from him.

Got a link or a username to search?

 

[CanadianDave]

Got a link or a username to search?

Gitrbilder2010

I think most or all of his templates are fender scale length, but some neck pockets are a rounded strat style, some are more square tele templates. So watch out for that

 

[cwsquared]

Gitrbilder2010

I think most or all of his templates are fender scale length, but some neck pockets are a rounded strat style, some are more square tele templates. So watch out for that

Thanks, I will keep that in mind.