Telecaster Guitar Forum - View Single Post - finally... baritone tele project completed (long)

Jef · July 7th, 2005, 05:33 PM

I started this one about one and a half years ago... gathered parts and tools and worked on it very slowly.

I made the baritone neck from scratch. It was my first attempt at building a neck. I screwed up the fret job the first time, I couldn't get the radius right (12") so I had to order new (pre bent) fretwire. (in the picture, I added a 'standard' tele neck, just to compare the scale length)

The body is from a cheap Stagg tele copy. It's solid alder but the grain is not so beautiful. I plan to cover the body with tweed in the near future.

Bridge pickup is a Seymour Dunacan "hot" lipstick for strat. I mounted it on an elevator plate from a telecaster bridge pickup. Neck and middle are from Kent Armstrong. The middle pickup is wired to a mini switch. Bridge and neck pickups are connected to a 4 pole 5 way switch (neck / neck + bridge parallel / neck+ bridge series / neck + bridge series out of phase / bridge only)

And best of all: it really twangs. I'm kinda surprised that is it a bright guitar, even though it's tuned ADGCEA

Jef

July 7th, 2005, 05:33 PM	#1 (permalink)
Jef Tele-Holic Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Antwerp, Belgium Posts: 684 2 Photos	finally... baritone tele project completed (long) I started this one about one and a half years ago... gathered parts and tools and worked on it very slowly. I made the baritone neck from scratch. It was my first attempt at building a neck. I screwed up the fret job the first time, I couldn't get the radius right (12") so I had to order new (pre bent) fretwire. (in the picture, I added a 'standard' tele neck, just to compare the scale length) The body is from a cheap Stagg tele copy. It's solid alder but the grain is not so beautiful. I plan to cover the body with tweed in the near future. Bridge pickup is a Seymour Dunacan "hot" lipstick for strat. I mounted it on an elevator plate from a telecaster bridge pickup. Neck and middle are from Kent Armstrong. The middle pickup is wired to a mini switch. Bridge and neck pickups are connected to a 4 pole 5 way switch (neck / neck + bridge parallel / neck+ bridge series / neck + bridge series out of phase / bridge only) And best of all: it really twangs. I'm kinda surprised that is it a bright guitar, even though it's tuned ADGCEA Jef __________________ Amplification is not a social dinner, a literary event, a drawing or an embroidery; It cannot be done with elegance and courtesy. Amplification is an act of violence... (Mao Tse-Tube)