DIY Guitars

(Gibson) L-5

Stratocaster

MAT Julia

(Martin) 000

..and the Fender Deluxe Reverb Amp (1965, not reissue)

MAT Julia

Stratocaster

Telecaster Model Otso

This one has Finnish guilted birch top and alder body with birch neck plus rosewood fretboard. The colors is brushed by hand using a piece of cloth.

I routed three ‘sound chambers’ onto the body. The quitar is very light waight and gives very nice tone. The neck pickup is the first that I have made by myself.

It came out to be 6.49K and sounds very nice ! I’m going to wind the midlle and lead PU’s also. I’m trying to have something like 5.5-6K for the neck PU and about 7K for the lead PU. I used 42 Gauge coil wire from stewmac.com and alnico 5 magnets.

sound sample

first the lead PU (made by my former teacher) then midlle (ESP) and then the DIY neck PU.

I played trough my pedalboard with orange squeezer and DD-20 engaged. After that there is

Mini Booster added. Then again with BSIAB2 and DD-20.

The neck PU is also made out of quilted birch