Well, the project that seemed so straight forward at the onset was anything but. BUT, it’s done. Terrific Tele twang and a finish that meets my original vision.

So, what went wrong? First the rough ash body that I bought off eBay was really dicked up. The neck pocket did not line up with the bridge through-the-body string holes, the slot for the volume/tone pots was off and the whole on the body edge for the cable jack was also the wrong size. What a jerk.

However it was not just the ‘body jerk’ who screwed up, the $110 Schaller gold adjustable roller bridge had three adjustment screws cross threaded. And one of the string retainers for the neck was missing one of the rollers.

I read the other day that learning to make guitars is a ‘process of trial and error’. That’s not completely true. It is a process of overcoming the inevitable error.

Here is my pearled white undercoat transparent blonde lacquer finish. The pickups are from Pete Biltotf at Vintage Vibe Guitars. I use only Pete’s pickups these days.

The name? Snowstorm.