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Title: Building another guitar.
Post by: §ôµÏG®ïñD on May 26, 2014, 03:41:49 AM
Thought id share this exciting news. I'm building another guitar. This will be a custom telecaster style guitar. Top of the range gear and i'll be spraying it with a transparent black 2K paint.   :thumbsup:
I'll post images as i do things.
Title: Re: Building another guitar.
Post by: Titan on May 26, 2014, 06:33:22 AM
Keep us posted. Would love to see the progress :bounce:
Title: Re: Building another guitar.
Post by: §ôµÏG®ïñD on June 17, 2014, 12:32:35 AM
got all the parts except the bridge pickup. That's on order. It'll be telecaster / les paul hybrid.
Translucent black body 2k spray painted (car paint) in style of telecaster, all metal hardware being gold.

Parts List

Black pick guard (all screws gold)
Grover locking Tuners (gold)
Adjustable Wrap around Bridge (gold)
The neck pickup will be gold and the bridge pickup will be black.
Seymour Duncan pickups.
STR-3 (for neck pickup)
STL-3 (for bridge pickup)
Swamp Ash Body
Maple neck / fretboard
Title: Re: Building another guitar.
Post by: §ôµÏG®ïñD on July 07, 2014, 10:12:59 PM
I've done most of the body work, will be spraying guitar tonight.
All wiring for the controls are done.
Thinking of adding a tone cap mod, so i can select between different cap values to alter tone.
will post pics soon.
Title: Re: Building another guitar.
Post by: §ôµÏG®ïñD on September 08, 2014, 03:52:30 AM
Its finished.. Took awhile because it was winter during the spray job and so make it very difficult to get a good spray job, even with 2pac clear.

Title: Re: Building another guitar.
Post by: §ôµÏG®ïñD on September 08, 2014, 03:55:22 AM
more pics
Title: Re: Building another guitar.
Post by: §ôµÏG®ïñD on September 08, 2014, 04:00:10 AM
last pics and one with my other telecastar. I will be adding a black ice mod with 2 switches to select different distortions.
Title: Re: Building another guitar.
Post by: Coredweller on September 09, 2014, 04:00:04 PM
Your guitar turned out nice.  It really looks great.  The bridge is very different from a traditional Telecaster, but who cares?  I'm sure it works great, and thank god you now have six adjustable saddles instead of three.  Are you going to do a custom decal for the headstock?  You should do Soulgrind in Fender script.

I have one Tele, and the only thing that consistently annoys me about it is the edge mounted output jack.  That's one big thing Fender got right with the Stratocaster, in my opinion.
Title: Re: Building another guitar.
Post by: §ôµÏG®ïñD on September 09, 2014, 07:06:38 PM
there's a decal on the headstock, just hard to see with that photo. Its pretender in a fender font.  I like the bridge, even the acoustic sound of the guitar is different from my other tele. It has less of a tinny sound and more of a bass to it. Also it rings out great. As i said i had trouble with painting, it ended up having a rustic look about it. So i didn't cut and polish it. I've left it with that look.
I might do a gibson style guitar next with soulgrind on the headstock.

Title: Re: Building another guitar.
Post by: CHIZZY on October 24, 2014, 11:01:14 AM
That's pretty sweet, man.