Carriere Custom Guitars

comments (0) August 1st, 2011 in Reader's Gallery

mgcarriere, member

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This is the Third guitar I am building. It is a semi hollow body with p90 pickups. The body is made of hard maple. The neck is two pieces of maple with a piece of walnut in the middle. The top plate is Walnut. The pickup covers fretboard and peghead face are all bubinga. Still deciding on the finish but it plays amazing and never goes out of tune.

This was the second build that I did and and was very pleased with the results. The body is Alder. The top plate is bookmatched bubinga with hand carved bubinga knobs for the volume and tone pots. I made the neck and p90 pickup covers out of maple and the peg head is bubinga. It has a 25 scale length with a 10 radiused fretboard. It sounds and plays amazing. The weight and neck angle are perfect.

This is the Third guitar I am building. It is a semi hollow body with p90 pickups. The body is made of hard maple. The neck is two pieces of maple with a piece of walnut in the middle. The top plate is Walnut. The pickup covers fretboard and peghead face are all bubinga. Still deciding on the finish but it plays amazing and never goes out of tune.

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I built these three guitars from scratch. I have been playing guitar for 21 years so when I started building, I had a really good idea of what I wanted out of the guitars. I think that is the most important thing about building them. What does the player want out of the guitar. When you know what that is, the design process is a lot easier. The actual look and shape of the guitar was the hardest part. Once I was happy with my design, I knew the specs from guitars I had played in the past that felt right. Even though I have been playing for a while, I still did a ton of research, to find out the pros and cons of each part of the guitar I was making. My best advice is to just start one and stay away from doing too much research. There are so many different opinions that you'll just become very confused about if what you wanted was a good idea in the first place. These guitars were built on the coffee table in my apartment, mostly with hand tools and home made tools. You'll learn so much from building the first one that the opinions on the internet wont even matter to you because you'll have a set of your own. There is no one way to build a guitar whether its the wood you choose, the electronics you install, or the finish you choose. As long as the person playing the guitar is comfortable playing it and can play and sound the way they want is all that matters. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Design or Plan used: My own design - Michael Carriere

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