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This is my first electric guitar build. I chose a Telecaster because I heard they were a good choice for a first one because of how basic it is. There are a lot of videos I see on YouTube where the body is made from scratch, but the neck is premade from some third party. Anyone out there reading this and thinking about getting into guitar building, I greatly encourage you to jump in and build the neck too. It is highly rewarding and I found that it is the one part of building a guitar that, in my opinion, seems to bridge the gap between building electric guitars and building acoustic guitars. The process is almost the same except for the acoustic neck joint being a little more complex. Building the electric body seems to me to be just basic woodworking, at least for a non-carved guitar such as a the kind that I built.

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