Parts accumulation

[kdawg2a]

As most of us who are afflicted with the guitar tinkering bug know, it never seems to take too long to accumulate parts. Usually that means 13 pick guards, a set of tuners, 400 strat saddles and 5 pickups with not enough wire length.
For the first time in a long time I've got enough stuff to put together a couple of complete guitars.

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I'm looking at making a Sherwood green, double bound Tele with a hotrails bridge pickup and a DeArmond gold foil neck pickup.
Also a sunburst strat that I have a lot of pickup options for but will probably get a couple of humbuckers. The body is HSH routed.
I may or may not go with the bigsby on the Tele, probably make it functional first without it and move on from there.
Anyone else got a 'leftovers' guitar?

[NippleWrestler]

Not a whole guitar, at least not ready to assemble. I bought a flying v blank off Adrian years ago and it's still where I put it, along with some neck blanks... So it'd take some work to make something guitar shaped.

Since I build pickups I have about 20 humbuckers of various flavours around the place, and an overabundance of bridges and tuners, but nothing matches. So it goes.

[StrummersOfThunder]

That Tele sounds hot. Need a cold shower

[kdawg2a]

That Tele sounds hot. Need a cold shower

It'll be all rock and roll business at the bridge but total party at the neck.

[jeremyb]

I have a ton of spare shit tuners and bridges and pickups I've upgraded over the years, and honestly I don't know why I kept them

[GrantB]

Yep, I’ve got a few ready to roll once i get my work shop back. Currently I have a glut of TV Jones ready for installs. Most frustrating part to have and can’t use? Lacquer. Beautiful LPB mixed up and haven’t sprayed a thing with it.

[dayl]

I recently threw away a few guitar bodies I was sick of looking at or didn't want to put the work in to save them.

The most on topic thing I have is a partscaster that is coming together just because I have left over parts that can build a guitar.

It's pretty cool, most of the parts have been accumulated from forumites over the past 15 years, so it's funny how it has come together.

[kdawg2a]

Yep, I’ve got a few ready to roll once i get my work shop back. Currently I have a glut of TV Jones ready for installs. Most frustrating part to have and can’t use? Lacquer. Beautiful LPB mixed up and haven’t sprayed a thing with it.

I had a gallon tin of Luar Green lacquer that I used on one guitar back in 2012. It's a very rare and very old Fender 50s custom colour and I had a ton leftover.
It's rare for a reason.

[kdawg2a]

I recently threw away a few guitar bodies I was sick of looking at or didn't want to put the work in to save them.

The most on topic thing I have is a partscaster that is coming together just because I have left over parts that can build a guitar.

It's pretty cool, most of the parts have been accumulated from forumites over the past 15 years, so it's funny how it has come together.

That sounds like a slow brewing machine that'll have a lot of memories. Could be the making of a great guitar.

[dayl]

I recently threw away a few guitar bodies I was sick of looking at or didn't want to put the work in to save them.

The most on topic thing I have is a partscaster that is coming together just because I have left over parts that can build a guitar.

It's pretty cool, most of the parts have been accumulated from forumites over the past 15 years, so it's funny how it has come together.

That sounds like a slow brewing machine that'll have a lot of memories. Could be the making of a great guitar.

Yeah man, crushing day, Sgt mikuzi, ash, olderama etc . Parts were all for different projects that never happened and I never thought to put them together until the other day.

[kdawg2a]

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