i've designed from scratch a headstock/neck for telecaster style guitars

[walidantar]

Re: i've designed from scratch a headstock/neck for telecaster style guitars

i prefer to do it myself .. i could buy a squire telecaster but i'm interested in making my first guitar by myself .. i already got the woods - cheap low grade red wood i think it's meranti .. as i expect to get many faults at first - the next time if i succeed i'll make it with laminated woods 'maple and mahogany' .. still working on flattening it .. and i got from stewmac a pre-radiused and slotted maple fretboard .. it's nice and interesting to make such projects at home .. i'm not much serious about the matter and not willing to go commercial but i'm interested in such things and love electric guitars and it parts and i want to have one and learn playing it .. i decided to make it from scratch till it finishes even if after a year .. i though before i would not be able to draw a headstock as it seamed complicated and hard but i then scetched the esp one at first it was the easiest to draw with only straight line tool and 3-point curve tool and for then i will never buy a guitar - i'll make it by myself .. but i liked to see how the headstocks look in real made by any professional and with good nice looking woods

 

[Chris Pile]

Re: i've designed from scratch a headstock/neck for telecaster style guitars

Meranti is yellow.

 

[walidantar]

Re: i've designed from scratch a headstock/neck for telecaster style guitars

then it's could be some other type of wood

 

[jeremy]

Re: i've designed from scratch a headstock/neck for telecaster style guitars

the headstock looks like an old carvin one

 

[devastone]

Re: i've designed from scratch a headstock/neck for telecaster style guitars

Or a Michael Kelly, Xavier, old Hondo, ...

 

[walidantar]

Re: i've designed from scratch a headstock/neck for telecaster style guitars

i know carvin but the other names now i checked about, and also there's william's guitars - uk .. actually i relayed on non of these but mostly on the standard telecaster headstock at first the i tries like blindly and by chance withe 3-point curve tool and then added 'fillets' so i came up with this - this is the in-line tuners headstock but i still like mine more - it's light on the eye - not any aggressive looking shape - i thibk it would suit a lot of body styles and look good in either tilt-back or non-tiltback .. the same method i used for the 3by3 when i drawn it but mostly influenced by the prs headstock

 

[ehdwuld]

Re: i've designed from scratch a headstock/neck for telecaster style guitars

I think alternating the grain on laminated pine would be a nice cheap beginner neck

 

[walidantar]

Re: i've designed from scratch a headstock/neck for telecaster style guitars

this is esp style headstock in five variations .. very slight differences .. with 1 11/16" & 1 13/16" nut width .. one is with shifted tuners by 1/16" & with tuners at angle of 63 degrees .. the rest are at 63.25 degrees .. drawing are downloadable at my profile on the autodesk posted at first

full scale pdf attached

View attachment esp-headstocks-Sheet1.pdf

 

[kramersteen]

Re: i've designed from scratch a headstock/neck for telecaster style guitars

what is a robit?