First attempt at a tele build.

Well, the bits arrived for my first tele build so looking forward to cracking on with it. Unexpected bonus, the body has a really nice quilted maple top, so a bit of a dilemma, scratchplate or not?

Pics would be somewhat helpful of course...

Please Ice - Don't ask Westcoaster to take pics(remember my Rainbow/Sausage with a cocktail stick analogy)

I promise you it won't even look like a guitar let alone a telecaster. It will look like the blurry image of Jack the Ripper caught in the smog festooned backdrop of late Victorian London.

Prove us wrong Robert

Go get 'em Tiger!!



Its almost like asking Jeff Dahmer to take your boyfriend out for a nice meal

hoax wrote:Please Ice - Don't ask Westcoaster to take pics(remember my Rainbow/Sausage with a cocktail stick analogy)

I promise you it won't even look like a guitar let alone a telecaster. It will look like the blurry image of Jack the Ripper caught in the smog festooned backdrop of late Victorian London.

Prove us wrong Robert

Go get 'em Tiger!!



Its almost like asking Jeff Dahmer to take your boyfriend out for a nice meal

That sounds like a challenge to me.

I knew that if I gave your cage a hard enough rattle, you would come out fighting!!

Hoax

Honestly Robert loves photography as much as Bill Clinton loved Monica Lewenisky. You'll remember that he loved that gal so much he even splashed out on a new dress.

..... "splashed" being the operative word, eh?! Oh, hang on.... That was the old dress!


If the maple is really nice, then no pick guard.... I like the look of Teles without them, eh! Best we see what we've got to work with here, mate.....

Depends on your build/finish skills... Those honkin' big PG's can cover up a multitude of badness.
Otherwise, I vote for a nekkid Tele

Barry wrote:…I vote for a nekkid Tele

Still got Barbara Eden rattling 'round the noodle, eh? Sorry I ever brought the subject up...

Ok peeps, some photos of the tele build so far. Not a lot done yet, just sheilding ther cavities with copper tape. So what do you reckon, with or without:

With:


Without:

Robert

With, as I really love the traditional black guard look. Having said that, if you want a more contemporary look then you can get one of those little shaped neck pickup mounts. That is a really nice figured top.

Either way, it will be the dogs!!

And also no more slagging of your photographs - Not!!

Hoax

I love her nekkid but I would hate to see that finish scratched up.
How about a clear PG?

Loverly jublee, super smashing great.

Without, if it was meant to have a scratchplate it would have had a route for the neck pup.

Once you drill those holes they're there forever.

If it got scratched over time you could always add one, take years, hours of playing.

Man that's beautiful. Where did you get that kit from?

Bye the way what a good picture, someone else take it....

I got the parts here:
www.northwestguitars.co.uk
Ended up paying a bit more than I originally intended but just loved that body although it's a real heavy beast and I want this to be a good one. I think you've nailed it with your suggestion Barry, I was thinking along the try it without first line.
Graham, I would really welcome wiring suggestions, I think I remember you saying something about wiring out of phase, what are the advantages/disadvantages.

Robert

I can't see any disadvantages as I don't really like the two pickups together on any guitar. Wiring out of phase gives a real nice funky/quacky/moody tone like positions 2 and 4 on a Strat or like Peter Green's Black Magic Woman solo.

Two easy ways of doing it

1. Take the magnet off the neck pick up and reglue it with the old glued side looking up at you
2. Swap the live and earth leads on one of the pickups.I always use the neck pickup. It just means you solder live to earth on your pot and earth to the live on your switch

If you struggle bring it over.

Graham

Thanks, sounds really straightforward. Gonna be a while before I get this finished, don't want to rush, and they sent me the wrong control plate, holes are too small for the pot shafts, no prob though, replacement is in the post. I did say a while back that teles weren't really my thing but this is growing on me, nice and simple (the guitar not me).

Finish it, plug it in, crank it up and then tell us Teles aint your thing!

It won't happen Robert, Tele's are seriously, great, comfortable , go to guitars.

Hoax

Very nice piece of kit. Not exactly cheap.

Get what you pay for suppose.

Which pups did you choose?

Westbone wrote:
Bye the way what a good picture, someone else take it....

It's actually meant to be an out of focus pic of my cat, don't know what went wrong

Had a thought about this and I'm tempted to go for a compromise solution, do a bit of surgery on the scratchplate to show off more of the wood. Still not sure about pups but at this stage nothing too expensive.

Barry wrote:I love her nekkid but I would hate to see that finish scratched up.
How about a clear PG?

Yup, that was my suggestion above Robert.