Electric Guitar Build from Old Wood, Telecaster

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Here's how I made a Telecaster electric guitar, built from scratch. I used scrap wood to make the body. it's a great first electric guitar build. This tele is made from 100 Year old Pine lumber which was reclaimed from a building from the 1920's. I used a modest number of tools, including a hand plane, palm sander, scroll saw, trim router and LOTS of sandpaper! A CNC makes an appearance, but I only used it to drill holes manually. I would have used a hand drill, but I wanted them to be square, straight and perfectly aligned. Tuners are Gotoh Vintage style. The neck is a 10 year old NOS Warmoth brand, 7.5" radius with 6105 frets and a rosewood fretboard. More info: https://vintagemusictech.blogspot.com/2024/10/telecaster-100-year-old-pine-aka.html Big thanks to Casey for the awesome pickups and knobs! https://www.caseyholford.com/ Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 01:00 Measuring, trimming, cutting the board 01:37 Squaring up the outer edges. 02:12 Flattening the halves 03:10 Cutting out the inside edges 03:35 Jointing the body blanks 04:55 Glue up the halves 05:51 Tar removal 06:02 Tracing out the body shape 06:18 Cutting out the rough shape 07:09 Flattening and cleaning up the back 08:58 Sanding the back 09:16 Routing the body with the Template 13:10 Flattening and smoothing the top 15:09 Sanding the sides 18:22 Roundover by hand 21:50 Required Parts 22:09 Knot glue up 22:28 Manual CNC bridge drilling 23:09 Neck pocket drilling, manual CNC 23:50 Ferrule drilling 24:23 Body Cavity "hogging" 24:44 Dremel Body Rout 25:18 Body Routing 26:20 Neck Pocket Routing 27:30 Neck Pocket Sanding 29:15 Enlarging Neck pocket holes 30:07 Electrosocket Jack Drilling 31:24 Body Wiring Drilling 32:19 Chopping the Bridge 33:40 Enlarging the Peg Head holes 34:07 Marking Tuners 34:41 Drilling Tuner screw holes 35:22 Installing Tuners 36:31 Mixing Shellac 37:04 Shellac First Coat, Real time 43:11 Shellac Second Coat, Double speed 45:17 Neck install, General Assembly 45:50 Bridge install, Prelim 46:14 Ferrules Install 46:48 Cover plate 47:15 Pickup installation 49:09 Switch, pots and Cover plate assembly 49:50 Electronics wiring and assembly 51:22 Jack Soldering and Final install 52:05 Cover plate final install 52:20 Bridge Final install w/ ground wire 52:45 Neck alignment and final tightening 53:17 Pickguard install 53:41 Knob Install 53:47 Strap Buttons install 54:45 Neck oil 55:36 First String up! 56:06 String Tree install 57:01 Finished! 57:14 Demo Song 58:24 Outro and Last looks