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| Author: | Gabby Losch [ Sat Apr 21, 2012 10:58 am ] |
| Post subject: | Finished! Tele-Style Guitar |
Hi all. I've been somewhat MIA from this forum for a while. I moved, got a new job, stayed a few months (tools stayed behind), quit the job, moved back. Somewhere in the mix, around January, I finished this guitar for a great player from Vermont. He gave me total creative freedom. All he asked for was a Tele with twang that he could use for chicken pickin' on a new bluegrass project. But he also wanted it to have balls. This is what I came up with: -Body: Ash body with figured Walnut top -Neck: Mahogany with Brazilian Rosewood fretboard -Hardware: Graph Tech nut, string retainer, and saddles, Schaller locking tuners, hand-made Wenge pickup ring, Dunlop Strap Locks -Electronics: Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates humbucker (neck position), Seymour Duncan Vintage Stack (bridge position) wired to 500k Volume, 500k Tone, 5-way Superswitch with Orange Drop 47uf capacitor -Pickup positions: Neck coils in series, neck coils in parallel, neck series + bridge, neck parallel + bridge, bridge only -Finish: PPG urethane over Z Poxy pore filler -Other features: satin finish on neck, tummy carve on back of body, knob and toggle switch placement reversed to make volume swells easier Neck was premade on this one. Hadn't planned on using a pre-fab, but I happened across a really nice one, already fretted and with tuners for a steal, so I went for it. |
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| Author: | Stuart Gort [ Sat Apr 21, 2012 11:21 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Finished! Tele-Style Guitar |
I love the look of that Walnut, Gabby. I picked up some Claro Walnut from Goby Walnut and got some very nice pieces. I laminated one set over some Wormy Maple and another over Port Orford Cedar. I hope the finish "pops" it as well as it did on that Tele. The figure is more intense on that Tele than I expect to get. That looks terrific! |
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| Author: | alan stassforth [ Sat Apr 21, 2012 12:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Finished! Tele-Style Guitar |
Wow! A Tele-Loscher! Me likey, a lot! I'm liking the no binding look on slab gits, for now. |
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| Author: | Chris Pile [ Sat Apr 21, 2012 12:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Finished! Tele-Style Guitar |
Twangulatin Tele! |
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| Author: | Clinchriver [ Sat Apr 21, 2012 1:16 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Finished! Tele-Style Guitar |
Sooooo....... whats it sound like? Mahogany neck with a brazilian fretboard wow. I've been firmly in the maple neck camp on strats and tele's, although two of my strats have rosewood fretboards. My tele has a B-bender and weighs a ton I have some really wild looking spalted tupelo I want to use for a couple of bodies, very light weight. |
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| Author: | Gabby Losch [ Sat Apr 21, 2012 6:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Finished! Tele-Style Guitar |
It sounds like what he asked for: a twangy Tele with balls. The superswitch and pickup combinations really took care of that. If someone can explain how I can post a video without first uploading it to YouTube, I'll post it here. |
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| Author: | theguitarwhisperer [ Sun Apr 22, 2012 7:02 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Finished! Tele-Style Guitar |
I'd post a video to YouTube and add a link here, more exposure. |
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| Author: | Gabby Losch [ Sun Apr 22, 2012 1:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Finished! Tele-Style Guitar |
Added video to the original post |
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| Author: | alan stassforth [ Sun Apr 22, 2012 1:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Finished! Tele-Style Guitar |
All I get is a big blank spot there, Gabby. |
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| Author: | Gabby Losch [ Sun Apr 22, 2012 3:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Finished! Tele-Style Guitar |
Hmm...it's showing up for me. Anyone else able to see the video? Either way, follow the link here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ8yUPOx ... e=youtu.be |
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| Author: | Clinchriver [ Sun Apr 22, 2012 5:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Finished! Tele-Style Guitar |
Yeah thats pretty nice, Kind of got its own sound, but I like it. |
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| Author: | alan stassforth [ Sun Apr 22, 2012 8:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Finished! Tele-Style Guitar |
Sounds great, Gabby. A growling tele! Anyway, I changed to Firefox, from Safari, and with Firefox, I can't play anything from U-tube. When I use Safari, your vid is in the original first post. Go figure... |
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| Author: | Shaw [ Sun Apr 22, 2012 10:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Finished! Tele-Style Guitar |
I love that walnut. One of my favorite woods. Nice job...Mike |
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