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Post subject: Tele Project what are your thoughts
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:50 am
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Hey Guys

I've been looking at getting into telecasters for awhile now, but the american's are pricey and when i go to look at buying a mexican or a squier to uses as a build platform, I can't find anything I can really use.

I have been building my own guitars for a while, mostly parts guitars. My most recent ones have been a reverse headstock super strat. (not a radical ss but a decent recreation of a strat, with H-SH configuration with 2 full size buckers and 1 duncan mini bucker) and Also a relic'd les paul style with some really high output dirty humbuckers.

I figure now it's time to try and build from scratch. A buddy of mine grabbed me some wood from were he works, originally i wanted mahagony but I opted for a dirty maple body with a maple neck.

The maple body will probably leave me with something very trebally with the tele pickups, so i'm looking at using two duncan p-90's.

along with that it will use a hipshot hardtail bridge, no pickguard, standard telecaster body and neck shape, the neck profile will be a little experimental (for me at least) from the 12th fret on it will have an almost flat thin D profile and from 1-12 it'll have a soft v profile, that tapers down to the thin D.

You guys have any suggestions as to anything else i should do with this tele?

I am currently choosing a fender tele to purchase as I have a rule that every fender style guitar I build needs an actual fender to accompany it.

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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 11:07 am
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Sounds like a cool project but...You are gonna use a solid maple body? I would think that would make for a very HEAVY guitar. Maybe a wee bit too heavy to be comfortable.


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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 11:10 am
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Agreed a 1.75" thick solid maple body will be very heavy, but 90% of my guitars are over the 8.9lbs mark and I use 3.5" wide straps so I am used to using heavy guitars.


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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 11:15 am
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Well, if it's what you are into go for it! :)

Since you stated you are going with no pickguard, I am guessing this body blank is gonna have some nice figuring to it?

I've always thought rear routed guitars looked cool. She ought to be a real looker when you are done.


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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 11:19 am
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Hopefully she will be a looker. Unfortunately i could not get my hands on any figured maple. I got the wood for free from my buddies scrap bin at work. For those of you who know wood grain, your probably thinking plain maple is pretty boring, but this is dirty maple. It has a grain in between ash and alder and it has darker stripes randomly through it (hence dirty maple) so i'm figuring a trans red finish should make it pop. I will keep you guys posted.


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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 2:28 pm
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Sounds like something that noone else will have 8) . Always good when thinking about a project. Why try to re-create, when you can create. I say just go for it and post a pic when you're done.

My latest project: I have MIJ Yamaha SJ550 (~deluxe tele 2 buckers/coil tap with the bridge plate like a Fender) body that's routed through the backside in black cherry. I bought it new in '84 using a part of my financial aid money back in my college days. Great guitar, but I played the frets off it. I recently pulled it out the closet and set it up with some new ferraglide bridge saddles. The original saddles were so rusted out I couldn't intonate/adjust the thing. Then the clencher.... I fitted it with a real nice Fender MIM std maple strat neck.

Coolest guitar ever built... Plays just as sweet as my beloved std Tele, but allows me to dive into the jazzier stuff with the buckers. With the coil taps it's about as versatile as you can get!!

Now I have a loaded MIM Strat body laying around....... Hadn't played it since I bought got my std tele any how. Now I have to Teles. A std and a Yamatelestratenstein..... Can't wait to go home and fire up the '57 D-lux clone and act a fool.

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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 2:45 pm
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darkstr0ke wrote:
Sounds like something that noone else will have 8) . Always good when thinking about a project. Why try to re-create, when you can create. I say just go for it and post a pic when you're done.



I'm all about creating, I don't have a single electric that I haven't put my own personal spin on even my MIJ strat hasn't stayed the same.

Thanks for the input guys keep it comin


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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:56 pm
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Heavy maple could be way bright, B Hefner has alder and ash tele bodies for $119.00 www.edenhaus.com


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If you're bent on maple, you could conceivably contour the back of the instrument so that, from the front, it looks just like a regular Telecaster. If you have the equipment and expertise to do this, it could make for a highly playable, good-looking guitar with a significant drop in weight.


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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 8:33 am
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Maxwell Street wrote:
Heavy maple could be way bright, B Hefner has alder and ash tele bodies for $119.00 www.edenhaus.com


I am fully aware of how bright it can be. The maple being used is not quite as hard as plain maple so that drops it back a bit. Like i mentioned before the wood was free and I already have it, so i'm not going to spend an extra 120 for a body.

As for Vulkan, I forgot to mention it but yes it will have strat style contours on it, the arm cutout and belly curve.


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