Thoughts on rebuilding a parted out 'husk'..

[neilli]

I'm not the guy who's going to ever be able to build a guitar from scratch, or even from a kit given the finishing that's involved. But I recently stumbled across the website of a company who parts out new guitars and it's got me wondering.

Obviously, it'd be pointless trying to rebuild the original guitar unless you have most of the parts lying around already, but as an option to take (say) a Les Paul studio, but put on your choice of pickups, wiring upgrades and hardware, it seems like a viable option. Rather than buying a complete guitar (new or used) and then tearing the hardware / wiring out of it. At the same time, it'd never really be that sellable unless you A: did a very tidy job and B: found someone who wanted exactly what you'd assembled. But even then you don't have tags, original case etc, but in terms of building a guitar to play it seems tempting...

Anybody ever done / contemplated doing this?

 

[Steinmetzify]

Do it all the time. Got a lot of cool one of a kind guitars that way, and if you go used on your parts you can sell it for not a lot more than you put into it. Did a few partscasters like that and due to deals and good parts choices actually made money on em.

There aren't a lot of companies out there that do exactly what I want in terms of frets, pickups and scale length, so I usually end up doing it myself. Give it a shot...plan it out, look around places for parts, buy used on what you can. I usually grab pickups used and they're like half price...I'll go new on cheaper stuff like tuners...GFS does decent ones that are locking. All kinds of ways to do it.

 

[Chris6870]

I bought one of those bare wood mahogany Les Paul studios that someone stripped of all parts. Paid a couple hundred. Already had the pickups,pieced the rest together with used hardware off Ebay and wired it with new CTS pots.Thew a paint job on it and came out with a great axe. I wanted to use the pickup combo I had, I wanted it a particular color and wanted it wired a certain way so it made sense to me to do it this way.