Meet Ivanhoe: The Junkpunk Tele!

[Elias Graves]

This design was somewhat inspired by the guitars of Dismal Ax. Check em out if you get a chance. The idea is to use reclaimed materials for the guitar.

The body and neck will be black walnut. My father in law bought the wood 20+ years ago and it's been laying around. Here's one of the bodies.


Mine will get a reclaimed wood top. Haven't located that yet.

Here's all my hardware gathered together.




The neck pickup is being built custom by Dirty South Guitars. It's based on this design...


Specs:
Body, neck: air dried black walnut from Missouri
Fretboard: rosewood, 25.5" scale
Tuners: Hipshot open gear
Pickups: soapbar bridge, Charlie Christian neck
Bridge: compensated rosewood, lifted from my 5th Avenue
Tailpiece: Door hinge from a barn my dad built in the 60s.
Straplocks: Military surplus hooks and snaps
Control trim ring: dial face and trim from my grandfather's Truetone radio
Pickup switch trim: Some round aluminum thingy
Output jack ring: some rusty iron from my grandfather's wagon, ca 1900
Control cavity cover: rusty tin from grandpa's collapsed windmill
Headstock logo: "Ivanhoe" emblem taken from grandpa's old oven
Pots: 300k linear gibsons
Cap: vintage PIO

Still looking for top wood and a strap.
Tony Rincon is doing most of the wood cutting. I'll do the finish.

EG

[guitfiddle]

Gonna be a unique guitar. What color?

[ImmortalSix]

Love the idea - so wonderful to see a concept and a build that is not just a rehash of the same old thing.

Go, EG, go!

[formula73]

A valve handwheel??? NOW you're speaking my language! Badass.

[j9fd3s]

awesome! i totally dig all the "found" parts. its already cooler than my tele, and its not even built yet

-mike

[ericmeyer4]

very cool! We are having a surge in DIY guitars lately on the forum.

[Elias Graves]

Now we have the wood for the top. This is a board that used to be part of a fence. It was destroyed in a tornado earlier this year.
The wood is well aged eastern red cedar. I think we'll leave it as is and just put a clear coat on it.





Now I have to decide on the bridge pickup. I have available now a soapbar (from a prs se), a Duncan SM3 or a Duncan seth lover.
The mini appeals, as it is a blade style, like the custom CC will be and I'm told that an sm3 has a similar voice to the CC when split.
A Seth is hard to pass up, though.

Now that we have the top wood and most of my other parts should be here today, I'm hoping that sawdust gets made in the next week or so.

EG

[SirJackdeFuzz]

Welcome to the Duncan Forums Elias !

Good to see you here mate !

[Elias Graves]

Hey there! Thank you.
I figured I'd run across some familiar names.

EG

[Elias Graves]

One tailpiece.



EG

[Elias Graves]

The middle section of this pic is my choice.



EG

[Elias Graves]

A walnut sample with one coat of yellow. This will be the rest of the body.



EG

[Elias Graves]

Spoke to Al the pickup guy. The CC neck pickup is functional now. He says it's nearly a dead ringer for an original. He's finishing up an appropriately ratty housing for it now.

Still debating the bridge pickup for it. I have a Seth Lover that needs a home...


EG

[Bass_Medic_05]

Welcome to the Duncan Forums Elias !

Good to see you here mate !

Nice I can't wait to see it finished, keep sending the pics!

[Jessie's ghost]

I love stuff like this.

[gibson175]

will be watching with interest!

[formula73]

Why can't it be done NOW?????

[Elias Graves]

That's what I keep asking.
Another conversation with Dirty South Guitars. They'll be doing the bridge pickup as well now. Probably some sort of DeArmond sounding single, but we'll see.

EG

[Elias Graves]

Fretboard is here! Time for binding installation.
I'm thinking maple.

EG