Making A Pine Guitar Body

One of the first guitar bodies I made several years ago had a few flaws that always bugged me. With all this time on my hands, I made it's replacement with whatever I could find in the garage!
More of this kind of thing plus some bad guitar playing over on Insta: / shoneyvanhalen
As usual, worth pointing out that I don't really know what I'm doing and everything is far from professional. If you're going to attempt your own build I'd watch people who genuinely know where it's at! This is just how I did it!
Thank you for watching.

[@davidchaletzky]

The template making is genius. And your joint is snug as any guitar I've seen - well done dude, definitely using this method from now on

[@mcclane12000]

Oh thank you! Very kind of you✌️

[@waltg7817]

I thumbs up the second I heard weenie beanie...good job!

[@mcclane12000]

What a tune!

[@jzf128]

Wish i had your build skills. Beautiful one.

[@mcclane12000]

Very kind of you to say, I don't have serious skills, just learnt a LOT from previous attempts!

[@stevesstrings5243]

Nicely done!

[@barbarianblood2316]

Great job man!

[@mcclane12000]

Appreciate that mate, thank you!

[@barbarianblood2316]

@@mcclane12000 you’re welcome

[@salmonti9707]

I totally enjoyed your build video. I build routing templated the same way you do yours. Liked the design and color scheme you used. Great work, cheers.

[@mcclane12000]

Thank you Sal!👍

[@simongorelik92]

so epic i loved watching you make this gorgous guitar!!!!

[@mcclane12000]

Thank you!🙏

[@runthepeaks]

Hey chap .. great to see a new video, nice build! Hope you're doing ok during the lockdown? We'll have to schedule a scoop or two during my next passage through your locale. Much love to you and the rest of the folks up that way; Rich, John, et al.

[@mcclane12000]

Hey buddy! This took care of one week locked down now I need to think of something else!😂 Cannot wait for a pint with you dude, hopefully sooner rather than later!

[@runthepeaks]

@@mcclane12000 For sure, next time I'm in your hood I'll give you a tinkle. It's looking like mid-Summer given the current restrictions etc. Stay well chap!

[@mcclane12000]

@@runthepeaks I'd say longer than that dude but fingers crossed!🤞

[@runthepeaks]

@@mcclane12000 Yeah, I'm sure you're right! We could be in for the rest of the year, but it helps to think we might only have a few more months. 8 more months of lockdown is not a comfortable thought, I'm more reclusive than most, but that's a long stint with the same four walls! Tonight's lockdown distraction for the wife and I consisted mostly of revisiting the 80's on YT ... Tears for Fears, a-ha, Simple Minds, et al .. good times! So, it's not all horror and catastrophe, you can't live that perspective constantly, still got to find a little joy wherever you can amidst the suffering and tragedy.

[@mcclane12000]

@@runthepeaks Yeah dude, staying positive is the key, not testing positive! Left my job about 3 weeks ago so financially it's a bit of a worry but doing stuff like this certainly takes my mind off it! Might have a time out there shortly done with rich and Jude so I'll give you the heads up! Nothing wrong with the 80s stuff though for years I maintained the only things decent to come out if them was Justice for all and reign in blood!😂😂

[@ADTGuitars]

Hey man! Loved the video. What did you use to stain the body. As I really love the finish

[@mcclane12000]

Thank you! It was copious amounts of Danish oil, pleased to report it's held up well!

[@ADTGuitars]

@@mcclane12000 okay thanks. I'll be doing a strat soon when I can go to college and get my template

[@mcclane12000]

@@ADTGuitars Great stuff👍 Just making a strat for somebody myself, hope it turns out okay for you

[@trainwon5699]

👍 thanks for sharing

[@hearpalhere]

It came out beautiful! Did that color just come naturally from using the danish oil? It looks fantastic. Your playing is great too by the way! Thanks for another great video!

[@mcclane12000]

It did yeah, about 8 layers in total, sanded with the oil to smooth it out at intervals, again, it was what I had to hand!😊 Thank you re the playing, if you like that, check out my wildly unpopular band Electric Caesar!!

[@hearpalhere]

@@mcclane12000 Cool, thanks! I'll check out your band too.

[@hearpalhere]

Is the band's youtube channel thebigrockroom?

[@mcclane12000]

@@hearpalhere the bigrockroom is where me and the dudes do metal covers really, my band is Electric Caesar, one ep out on Spotify/iTunes etc! Thanks for checking us out

[@hearpalhere]

@@mcclane12000 Cool.

[@hearpalhere]

I really like the look of the wood - what type was it? Kind of just looks like pine?

[@mcclane12000]

Yep, just pine! It was the only thing I had in the garage that would suffice bit I like it anyway!

[@hearpalhere]

@@mcclane12000 Nice! I actually really like the look of pine and many people swear by it. The lightweight is super nice too. Was the guitar balanced OK? Any neck dive?

[@mcclane12000]

@@hearpalhere well the first Tele was made from pine so it can't be that bad! It's nicely balanced really, needs those contours for playing sitting down for sure!

[@hearpalhere]

Whoa, that stop tail piece was really close on the original body no?

[@mcclane12000]

😂😂😂well spotted! I put the stop on first but when I measured for the bridge it was further back than I thought🤦🏻‍♂️ lesson learned

[@hearpalhere]

@@mcclane12000 Haha, that's good to know, I guess always start with the bridge first. Just curious, did the sharp string angle give you any problems with strings breaking or tuning?

[@mcclane12000]

@@hearpalhere not at all no, the problem lay with threading the string through the tailpiece and grabbing hold of it!😂

[@hearpalhere]

@@mcclane12000 I hate getting stabbed by the string ends :-p

[@jeremiascuder7383]

Great job man!!...what's it the song are you playing?

[@mcclane12000]

Thank you! It's a new one of mine I need to persuade my bandmate to sing on!😂

[@jeremiascuder7383]

@@mcclane12000 it's amazing!great sound

[@mcclane12000]

@@jeremiascuder7383 thank you so much!

[@MrGeoffreySmith]

That worked out a treat, eh! How did you turn your wooden shed into a brick garage? 🤔😀

[@mcclane12000]

😂😂😂wouldn't have done it without your videos! Bought a house and the garage came for free!

[@MrGeoffreySmith]

@@mcclane12000 Ah, so this is the one you mentioned! Well, glad to be of service! 😀😀😀

[@mcclane12000]

@@MrGeoffreySmith it's given me something to do whilst locked down so I'm very grateful! Hope the Rick build is still going well😁

[@MrGeoffreySmith]

@@mcclane12000 more videos this weekend. I'm fiddling with getting the frets in at the moment. After that it'll be sorting out the body.

[@mcclane12000]

@@MrGeoffreySmith Ah yes, fretting took me a while, do them while the neck is square if you can, or have you already tapered it I can't recall?

[@Raul1971xxx]

This is a Fender Jaguar in pine wood. I love it.

[@mcclane12000]

Thank you mate👍

[@Raul1971xxx]

@@mcclane12000 🇪🇸🇪🇸🎸🎸👍👍