DG011: “Cherry Bomb Number One” (Telecaster/Esquire style)

‘Cherry’ is a Tele fashioned from one of my earliest attempts at guitar-building. The body is from a piece of Spanish Chestnut I built almost 3 years ago from an old bookcase. It’s very solid and heavy, so not for the faint-hearted.

She’s an Esquire with a single PAF-style humbucker (coil-tapped so that the switch still does something!) with a cherry red stained front, black purfling and a red lacquered back, and an all-mahogany neck.