I’ve been working on a top secret guitar project for my niece. She’s been playing guitar and singing for a while and she’s been starting to play music and perform with other people. I found an old Teisco in the dumpster. The top was completely delaminating, the fretboard was barely attached to the neck, the electronics were dead, and it was missing basically all of the hardware. My first thought was, “this would be a great guitar for my niece!” So, I fixed it up – epoxied the body to stabilize it, repainted it, replaced the fretboard with a scrap of nice flamed maple, rebuilt the pickups (with some major design improvements) and fabricated new hardware. Needless to say, my niece was really ecstatic about it.
Incidentally, she and I are working on a really cool recording project with her cousin (the step-boy) known as Love Ocean. Our new single, My Conversation, is now available on all major streaming platforms.
Straight out of the dumpster, the top was de-laminating and the fretboard was shot. 
Stabilizing the top with epoxy. 
Sanding. 
I replaced the missing tailpiece with a custom part made from aluminum, and fabricated a new bridge from wood. 
New flamed maple fretboard. 
The existing pickups were no good. One was DOA, and the other was really weak. 
I re-wound the pickups with #43 AWG wire to make a pickup with stronger output. 
I had some small ceramic magnets around, so I built the new pickups with a P90-like structure. 
New pickup base plates 
Here’s the body finished in a color-shift metallic blue/green. 
Custom headstock logo just for my niece. 
I put neck bolt anchors inside the neck. 
Here she is ready to go out!
