https://guitarnoise.forum/news/unique-home-made-instruments/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:57:25 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/news/unique-home-made-instruments/paged/2/#post-362144 Fri, 31 Dec 2010 23:50:11 +0000
Hey, I'm still a father, though! You don't take that away legally or otherwise. It has been challenging, emails and writing.

No worries, let's just talk about the guitars. And I thought that my picture shows were a little excessive before, so I tried at least to cut down the size of the pictures themselves. I haven't taken any new ones, but we'll go big on these for now. I might jump in to the Christmas or Axe-mas thread, and the Les Paul thread too, but am here to say Happy New Year!

First, yeah my daughter is a Tele girl and her Tele is a stock model. I have it, as well as half of her other guitars now due to our separation, but will give them back later. She got both the Blue Flower and the Pink Paisley, which you mention as the other similar one, at the same time in 2002, when they were 5 years old, like herself. So, she has just turned 13 now. She has been been a guitar tech since age 5, and she specialized in working on bridges, especially the Floyd Rose. Musically, a 4-stringer, violin and bass, with a few guitar chords, and always able to play "lead" when you start on violin without frets?

Right, so she used the Kleenex box to show me that she wanted that type of design, not a square guitar like Bo Diddley's, ha ha, and it would need to be a Fender, since weve been primarily a Fender family. I have been collecting for 40 years, but have sold 150 - not much loss there, except for some beauties, there's plenty left, more than I can carry. Anyhow, move on.

For my daughter, who goes by the name of Billie Tw@ng, (and that would embarrass her at her current age), though she stood to come into many guitars by osmosis, like my other kids, I bought her a new White Les Paul Custom at age 4 or 5 (for the future) to recognize her efforts and commend her for her abilities with being a little Floyd Rose expert - we already had the Vai LNG Jem 777, one of my own Ibanezes with an FR, and we hated them. Billie and her brother did the FR work and string changes with setups for other school kids, and young shredders. But we keep our lives and collection private.

Must get to the story or these Teles. She wanted the Blue Flower Telecaster instead of the Les Paul, but I thought she should have both matching Teles, especially the Pink Paisley, and a Stratocaster to build. So, 3 Fenders for one Gibson.

Problem is or was, it was 2002 and there were none! They were originally made in 1968 when James Burton played the Pink Paisley rather conspicuously in Elvis' band, beginning his comeback. They have been made by Fender as re-issues before, from Japan, as MIJ, then Mexico which never went over too well, and then re-introduced as Crafted in Japan or CIJ in 1997.

We located a set of the very first-issued CIJ's from a prominent Fender dealer, manager and collector in the 'States, and he parted with them, together with hardshell cases which were extra, with dealer stickers on them, for my child. So, to eventually answer your question, these are from the first run of CIJ's ever, from within the first thousand (I don't know how many were made), are like Custom Shop, since prior to that, CIJ didn't exist. You maybe saw in 2008, a very short re-run.






Her personal or one-of-kind Strat above is a unique home made instrument which we built, has a CIJ '62 neck and a rare MIA '62 Custom Shop white pearl pickguard, Custom Shop Pickups signed and dated by Fender "girl" Abigail Ybarra, except for a vintage DiMarzio centre stack, CTS, Switchcraft, Deaf Eddie Fat-O-Caster and DiMarzio Push/Pull parts, w/17 tones.

My daughter (youngest) has her own brand and tries to be professional, matches herself and decor with her guitars where possible. When she participated in a major forum before as an underage mentored by me, using correct spelling, grammar and technical terms which she does, she was mocked and people twisted her name and did copycat posts with bad language and immature, explicit content. Oh well, she's outta there, but has designed a new Tele bridge which maybe some of her detractors can buy - it may be machined by VA Tech Engineer Bill Callaham when he returns to his shop in the new year, so in a few days!!! We have also designed a new Tele, working from Leo Fender's original 1948 Snakehead prototype and added several modern and useful, player-friendly features. It's a long shot, but we hope to build that through my son's plan, with Premier Builder's Guild in Pennsylvania, where we may also present a lighter "Les Paul" too in PRS's backyard.

Thanks again for your question and compliments. The kid deserves a break, has worked hard for it, especially trying to introduce herself or make her own niche in a tough, unforgiving other forum. She still has the Longhorn bass with her brother, they share the '74 Mustang too, and she retains her 2002 20th Anniversary Squier Strat with a humbucker and special mojo - onboard Fuzz! I have her Lace Huntington HH Strat Prototype, where we took the Lace pickups out for True Tone Technologies' Tonebursts, which are also dually's like the few that Lace makes, and they split here for 7 sounds. Lace made a Surf Series of guitars after this. We have a peculiar emerald & purple Lace dually with a Joe Barden in one of our Tele prototypes, one of 2-made burgundy Lace pups in another. Her fave axe is her 1980 USA bullet with blue and red Lace.





]]> News Blue Jay https://guitarnoise.forum/news/unique-home-made-instruments/paged/2/#post-362144 https://guitarnoise.forum/news/unique-home-made-instruments/#post-358740 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:20:31 +0000 Blue Jay, I recently saw that guitar or a very similar one in a magazine and it is really cool! There also was another Telecaster with drawings (I think it was pink or purple). Perhaps some people prefer the "classical" colors but these models seem very attractive to me.

Is the Tele of your daughter a stock model? (BTW, very cute as Rahul said!) Is it a Fender? I was searching it but I didn't find it.

Thanks!]]> News Nuno https://guitarnoise.forum/news/unique-home-made-instruments/#post-358740 https://guitarnoise.forum/news/unique-home-made-instruments/#post-358533 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:04:25 +0000 https://www.guitarnoise.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=49237 :oops: Well, some shame. still, I did one this weekend. Modifications going through my head now.

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:]]> News rparker https://guitarnoise.forum/news/unique-home-made-instruments/#post-358533 https://guitarnoise.forum/news/unique-home-made-instruments/#post-358467 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:23:32 +0000
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45j4bS19wkQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mskEJwU4ck (actually looks like a sarod).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGWr2wU1VbU

Ravi Shankar's reputation is secure but these are pretty ingenius. :)]]> News Minotaur https://guitarnoise.forum/news/unique-home-made-instruments/#post-358467 https://guitarnoise.forum/news/unique-home-made-instruments/#post-358452 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:08:16 +0000 http://www.usl.org.uk/content/AboutUs.aspx]]> News Scrybe https://guitarnoise.forum/news/unique-home-made-instruments/#post-358452 https://guitarnoise.forum/news/unique-home-made-instruments/#post-358289 Sat, 21 Aug 2010 21:38:16 +0000 News Rahul https://guitarnoise.forum/news/unique-home-made-instruments/#post-358289 https://guitarnoise.forum/news/unique-home-made-instruments/#post-358081 Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:00:32 +0000
I can't even remember the guitars that I built with my oldest daughter, some 25+ years ago, but we had several and she played them every day when she was 2,3, 4 years old till they wore out, and we got a plastic ukelele.

My son had a school project to build any instrument that made 3 or more different pitches when he was around 5, so we built another guitar of course, with an articulating or hinged neck, not unlike the washtub basses, but it had 4 strings of different gauges and he played Mary Had a Little Lamb and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, what else? :lol:

This pic hasn't been on the board for a long time, so here's my youngest who initiated what she saw as "her" ideal guitar, wasn't shown or helped, but made a mock-up of what she REALLY wanted, with the Kleenex box, when dad goofed and you know... got her a LP Custom as axe #1. Reason: because I wanted one since I was 10 and had to wait for decades.



Nothing strange, nobody was pushed... a normal family, the girls played with R/C trucks and racecars and regular dolls?




When I was a kid I had ukes and built guitars and drums too, not that it matters, but my first electric was a Telecaster.]]> News Blue Jay https://guitarnoise.forum/news/unique-home-made-instruments/#post-358081 https://guitarnoise.forum/news/unique-home-made-instruments/#post-358076 Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:45:55 +0000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wobble_board.

Sounds so right on 'Stairway to Heaven' by Harris. :lol:]]> News Rahul https://guitarnoise.forum/news/unique-home-made-instruments/#post-358076 https://guitarnoise.forum/news/unique-home-made-instruments/#post-358071 Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:48:17 +0000 washtub. Still used in bluegrass.

Here's a local bluegrass fusion group, the D-Rangers
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