After hearing Brad Paisley say that a Fender Telecaster “is nothing more than a cutting board, a baseball bat, and strings,” Zachary Custom Guitars decided to put that idea to the test — minus the part about the baseball bat.
The result: a guitar body made from a $25 butcher block from Ikea. The finished guitar costs slightly more, at $2675, but you get a maple neck, bois de rose fretboard, and all the other stuff that makes an electric guitar and electic guitar. Not to mention the fact that it’s made by hand.
The 40mm “SPAR” butcher block is made of solid birch and is 40mm thick — which is, coincidentally, the exact thickness of Leo Fender’s early prototype guitars.
Ikea Butcher Block Tele Guitar [ZacharyGuitars.com via Ikea Hacker]
uhhhhhh that knife in the onion on the guitar/cutting board is dank. Opinel makes such sweet blades, something the french DO have right. Much better craftsmanship than the guitar…..though it does look pretty
WOW! That’s truly a piece of art. You are very talented.
Why is the project $2,675? Is that not very expensive? Maybe that is what they might sell it for and maybe man hours that go into it but materials can’t be so much and wasn’t the test a DIY test to see if it can be done? So why was it established that the total cost was so much? I’ll buy a Fender instead.
He didn’t make the guitar. It was handcrafted by Zachary Custom Guitars. I believe that is the price they are charging but I may have misread the paragraph above…Nope, I re-read it and I am pretty sure that is what he said.
$2500+ for a hand made custom electric guitar is on the high end but not unheard of by any stretch of the imagination and Zachary is one of the higher end custom shops so the price doesn’t surprise me. the cost of meterials has very little to do with Guitar cost, Brand name and electronic set up determines the price on guitars.