Back in the 1990's, the guitars I wanted were not cheap or easily accessible, and the guitars I could afford I had to modify to make them reliable, sound good, or in general, just keep me satisfied with them. Through guys like Paul Dean, Kurt Cobain, Edward Van-Halen, and Kurt's guitar tech Earnie Bailey, I learned that you could build and modify your own guiars, so I started buying up my classmate's plywood boat paddles for pennies on the dollar and turning them into real winners. This allowed me, over time, to create pretty much any guitar I wanted. So here's some of the "write-ups" of some of my builds.

Not all of these guitars are intended to be mine. I'm planning to possibly start putting these up for bids on e-bay, or even selling them in a legit shop of my own on Reverb.com. I'm only keeping the "first" versions of certain stuff, and stuff I started I cannot legally sell (like the Atari Caster or the PDX-90 that's basically a Hondo Paul Dean II with dual P-90 pickups in it like the one Paul played on the Get Lucky tour in 1982).

All of these are sort of like a "Blog" in format for each instrument and go into the challenges, problem solving, my techniques in building, and even some of my own personal lunacy for entertainment. It's not really a guide to building them, though I'm sure some bits are educational, but more or less, just a place to talk about what I'm working on at the moment.

MAKE/MODEL PICTURE	DESCRIPTION - CLICK ON PICTURE FOR PAGE
Jazzmaster Build	In 2009, due to the rising costs of buying a Jazzmaster from Fender due to the Hipsters driving prices up, I decided to put together my own Jazzmaster, that met my requirements. Initally settling on 2 designs determined by how nice the body wood looked, I ended up building this "Cars Killer" Jazzmaster. Some unique features include a flat 12" fretboard radius, jumbo frets, Kluson Tone Pros machine heads, canadian Pickup Wizards overwound pickup in the bridge, a Fender pickup in the neck, vintage cloth wiring, and a unique Minwax WoodSheen Finish, and a "anti-theft system" in that it has a Fender decal on the headstock, making it illegal for resale - a deliberate move.
VHII Jaguar Tribute	In October 2020, one of my biggest influences, Edward Van-Halen, died. I decided to, in tribute, revive the first guitar and body project I did when I was 14, but improve and build it the way I wanted it then, not how I could manage to with no Fender Jaguar to trace. So this is the "correct" version. It features a Warmoth Neck, Cedar body, Kahler 2300 Gibson branded Tremolo, and a Bill Lawrence XL500 humbucker screwed into the wood, with the classic "Bumblebee" Van-HAlen II Paintjob that Ed's old Charvel had (the one that was barried with Dime, which the Lawrence pickup is sort of a tribute to).
2007 Squier Jagmaster	I bought this Squier Jagmaster brand new in 2007, and it's always been a bit underwhelming. So I did some mods to it to convert it into a short-scale, floyd-rose equipped Jazzmaster-style guitar with dual Humbuckers. Basically, a Jagmaster the way I vision Fender doing it if they made it a part of their regular offset product line. Aside from ticking off hipsters with the Floyd and Gold hardware, while playing some Motley Crue or Van-Halen on it, it also features some of the most advanced circuitry to ever grace a Jazzmaster pickguard since 1958.
Paul Dean P-90 style	My first 100% truly scratch built guitar. This is a quasi-clone of Paul Dean's "Dean Machine" guitar used on the 1982 Loverboy Get Lucky Album and tour, which later evolved into the Odyssey Paul Dean and Hondo Paul Dean II models. The guitar is made out of reclaimed pallet wood, with Golden Age P-90 pickups, and possibly some electronics trickery under the hood a bit further done than Paul Dean's original setup (thinking of tossing a Free-Way in there for phase reversal, kill switch, and series options). However, some other unique acoutrimonts include the Specter/Warwick style rounding of the top via a mis-adjusted planer, and possibly an experimental transparent finish of some kind.
Rogue/Harmony H804	Basically, my vision of the perfect H802, one of my favorite cheap student guitars from 1970's-1980's that evolved from the Teisco ET-100 Tulip guitar. This is to replace a guitar of my wife's. Basically, it's a fully modernized version of the H802 with series/parallel and phase switching, as well as improved bridge, neck, and tonal options. All built on the bones of a dead H804 and some parts I've had kicking around for awhile, this guitar is likely the last H802/804 style build i'm doing that started life originally as a H802/804 model. After this, it's going to be custom scratch-built versions as the prices on these are going up, and I"m interested in creating a line of them to sell possibly that are updated and modified for pro use.
B.C. Rich Warlock	Rebuilding a 2003 B.C. Rich Bronze Series Warlock for sale to some lucky new owner. Basically me making saleable decisions after some initial color ideas did not work out. THe guitar in question is getting new pickups, custom wiring, and a new neck. It's also being repainted straight up gloss black, and may get some custom acoutrimonts that are true to the old B.C. Rich. Includes serial# matching neckplate and a properly setup neck with the B.C. Rich Decal on it - since I'm not taking credit for the work I did not have to do this guitar (ie making the body and neck). Some guitars in this list are going to be ones that I am selling to thin the herd.
$40 Parts Mutt DiMarzio Body Build	Storied old $40 guitar I bought at a Montgomery pawn shop back in my Lithium days, gets a few new coats of paint and some upgrades added to it. Basically put, I bought the guitar when I was like...18, for $40, and then parted it out to others on this page (EVH Jaguar, Kramer Strikers, my Kramer Focus 3000 et.al). Basically my discussion on my experiments with the amazing practical-standard the Strat has become. I will be adding more details as time goes on as this guitar is a constant work-in-progress of upgrades and you never know where I"m going to wind up landing with it.
2017 "MadRite" Guitar	Built out of a bout of G.A.S. inspired from Ricky Wilson's guitars from the B-52's, and wanting to build something that looked like a Mosrite that I could afford, comes this mostly scratch built monster featuring modified First Act Pickups, Washburn Wonderbar Tremolo, and a Pine Tablestock body hand-drawn and cut out without power tools (only later to be refined with). For awhile it was blue, then returned to natural in 2023.
Kramer Parts Mongrel	An old Kramer ST300/Focus 6000 parts mutt guitar I bought from Hot Lixx music in 2005 in Everett WA that I started putting back together with plans to sell. Basically building one of my own souped up superstrat guitars to put out there for someone else to enjoy. I've had that body and neck way too long, and the neck needed much rehabilitation (screws busted off in the heel, cracked headstock in more than one place....but the string path is excellent at least). It's going to be somewhat of a modernized version of my Kramer Focus 3000.
1988 Vester Concert II	Another parts guitar getting a new lease on life as a ripped and ready shred machine. This instrument started off as the "Boxing Glove" guitar I had in the 2000's, and was later taken apart to give parts to other projects. Now it's being put back together and possibly sold to someone else afterward (I really need to get crackin' on that Reverb store). The plans are to make a ultra-high-tech Superstrat that's affordable with a Sustainer system and some other "special sauce". My Kramer Focus 3000 is being the guinea pig for this guitar BTW.
"The X"	A repainted, white 1984 Arbor plywood Explorer body, mated to some form of custom Chinese neck, and more secret sauce electronics - with a Floyd. The guitar's overall visual theme is based on my truck which is a white SUV from the early 90's (white/black/red). It's very likely this guitar will end up getting some form of sustainer included in it's design at some point as well, as well as some MIDI Capability or even an on-board Synth.
1971 Fender Music Master	A guitar that has had probably 1000 lives since 1971. This 1971 Fender Music Master started off it's early life - probably in Seattle - as a Dakota Red stock 1971 model, and then gradually got repainted, modded, and parts-mutted to death by the local scene until Tommy's Guitar Shop got it and I bought it in 2009 as just a body and a neck. Since then, it's been a couple thematic guitars for Hempfest 14' and later a horror band called Murderock, to now becoming sort of a Backup for my Jag-Stang. Despite being pretty much finalized, this is also my workshop workhorse for protyping crazy offset ideas like putting a sustainer in a Fender Student model, or making a transposing Fender Mustang trem.
Guitari 2600 Polyphonic Synth	A 100% Home Made, Shortscale, Transposing, Synth Guitar/Electric Guitar combo using home-brew six-note polyphony synth modules in the form of Atari Cartridges that stick into the back of the guitar. The guitar allows me to do a few things uniquely....first off, I can make a "Breadboard Cartridge" That will allow me to develop my own polyphonic homebrew synths. A "MIDI" Cart can be used to turn the guitar into a MIDI or Roland compatible synth controller. It also features some other wacky ideas like my own transposing (with adjustable stop points and functioning whammy in the transposed positions) - that's headless, but uses REGULAR guitar strings (and has enough arc movement for any set of strings you can buy). More of an experiment. Why Atari thematics? Well, because the first synth I'm converting to this design is the Guitari 2600 Monophonic Synth - transformed into a 6-note POLYPHONIC synth. The sustainer is there to allow the notes to be made infinite, the short scale makes it work less as hard at concert pitch (or even transposed UP), and also allow for this thing to be a screamin hard rock demon when it's not pumping out the Pitfall II Lost Caverns Theme at 122db through a chorus and a thick plate reverb!
Decoupage #3 - MadRite II	Another decoupage build. My wife wants to do some more of these, and I decide to do a sequel to the 2017 original - an HH "MadRite" with a stoptail and rear-routed so my wife's crafting can be fully visible on the front of the guitar.
Tiger SS GT Custom	Pallet Reclaimed Wood Build - Started in 2018. Basically a Floyded out version of Kurt Cobain/Martin Jenner's Jaguar using Sapphue pickups in place of Seymour Duncans, and most likely a Licensed Floyd or Floyd Rose Special, and tri-mode switching. Basically, another offset shred machine, featuring my first acrylic work on a transparent blue body made of strips of reclaimed pallet wood from work.
Stallion LXHT Acrylic Fill (no picture yet)	Pallet Reclaimed Wood Build - Started in 2018. Custom purple/woodgrain flood-fill Acrylic guitar with a new, custom body design by me. Sort of taking 80's influence and combining it with 90's influence as usual, but with it's own crazy ideas incorporated into the design.
Stallion GTTR-NK Custom (no picture yet)	Pallet Reclaimed Wood Build - Started in 2018. Basically, a reclaimed-pallet-wood variation of my #1 guitar - a 1995 Fender Jag-Stang known as "Nikki", just in a different color, maybe experimenting with more affordable active pickups. Build has just barely started with body blank just completed and stopped at this point. Still in design phases otherwise.
Stallion LXHT (no picture yet)	Pallet Reclaimed Wood Build - Started in 2018. Nicely grained pallet wood that may get backed with Mahogany. Guitar is a "student style" build with an orange pickguard and hardtail bridge, and HS configuration (EMG Selects).