Avalon Landing By Simon Barber on June 13, 2012 — 1 min read This Sunday is Father’s Day in the UK. It is also one year to the day that I lost my Dad to cancer. I hadn’t experienced a loss of that magnitude until last year and so in many ways it has been the most difficult of my life. It’s fair to say that not a... More
Building a Telecaster: part 5 By Simon Barber on January 17, 2010 — 1 min read Here it is folks, the final instalment of my Telecaster project. The guitar is now complete. In this set of pics, you can see the neck being bolted on, the installation of ferrules, the nut being sanded to allow for the strings and the process of setting up the guitar so that it has a... More
Building a Telecaster: part 4 By Simon Barber on January 16, 2010 — 1 min read “Previously on ‘Building a Telecaster’…” In this latest episode of my guitar making serial, you can see the installation of the scratchplate (or pick guard), the machine heads (tuners), the control plate which provides the volume and tone controls, the jack socket and some vintage strap holders. For the tuners, we had to do a... More
Building a Telecaster: part 3 By Simon Barber on January 15, 2010 — 1 min read In part 2, I treated the ash body of the guitar with Danish Oil. This warmed up the colour a little but kept the natural grain of the wood as I intended. After applying several coats, I waited for it to dry properly and then buffered it so that it developed a sheen. It’s now... More
Building a Telecaster: part 2 By Simon Barber on January 10, 2010 — 1 min read Today i’m adding the first couple of coats of Danish oil to the guitar body to give the wood some protection and a bit of a sheen. It’s looking exactly as I had hoped so far. I chose the natural oil so that it would be pretty much transparent and maintain the original look of... More
