I asked this on another forum, but as many of the contributors are younger, there weren't too many responses!
(In the sense that most younger players can easily buy necks, bodies, pickups etc on line - whereas years ago, parts etc were hard to find or non existent etc)
I know many of we older chaps often made their own electric guitars from whatever we could find, beg, borrow, invent, modify etc back in the early days of playing..
In my first band in the '60's, I could count at least six guitars and basses made either from scratch or from modifying old cheapo guitars etc..for example, the bass player in my first band was left handed and where we live back then, LH basses were as rare as rocking horse manure and/or very expensive, so our handyman drummer built him two LH basses..the second one being an ambitious copy of a LH Rickenbacker bass...
Any stories (and especially photos!) of such hand built masterpieces?