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tuuur · May 25th, 2008, 08:02 PM

We all know Fender's TC-90, or Double Cut Telecaster:

... which basically is a tele with its treble side copied and flipped.
That got me thinking... what would a double NON cut tele look like?

Here is my photoshopped result:

So what do you think... is this a weird idea, or worthy of building?

thekillingjoke · May 25th, 2008, 08:09 PM

You can if you want, but in my opinion it's not worth it. You lose crucial frets for soloing if you don't have the cut.

nasonm · May 25th, 2008, 08:09 PM

Eh...I doesn't light my fire, but I've known to have some weird ideas myself. If you want people to go...What thuh? Then go for it!

You've reminded me that I've always wanted to at least try one of these...

mojocasterman · May 25th, 2008, 08:34 PM

at the very least, that's some cool photoshoping you did there :)

tiktok · May 25th, 2008, 08:42 PM

The guitar for all those "There's no money above the seventh fret..." guys.

e-merlin · May 25th, 2008, 08:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tuuur

That got me thinking... what would a double NON cut tele look like?

Here is my photoshopped result:

So what do you think... is this a weird idea, or worthy of building?

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! Poke out my eyes! Quick! (shudders)

SixStringSlinger · May 25th, 2008, 08:46 PM

Maybe it could work if the neck wasn't so far into the body. But then it might have to be a neck-through, or something.

e-merlin · May 25th, 2008, 08:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nasonm

Eh...I doesn't light my fire, but I've known to have some weird ideas myself. If you want people to go...What thuh? Then go for it!

You've reminded me that I've always wanted to at least try one of these...

Put another neck on the other end of that monstrosity.

J-man · May 25th, 2008, 08:50 PM

If Mickey Mouse was a guitar..

getbent · May 25th, 2008, 09:00 PM

it looks like a bank tellers butt. not that that is necessarily a bad thing... just not my thing.

esteban · May 25th, 2008, 09:05 PM

I like these better.

IMO a non-cut Les Paul would look cooooooooool...

octatonic · May 25th, 2008, 09:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tuuur

Here is my photoshopped result:

So what do you think... is this a weird idea, or worthy of building?

I say go for it.
Looks to me like it has big shoulders- like a bulldog.

micpoc · May 25th, 2008, 11:47 PM

I think it looks like a great rhythm guitar.

And esteban's Les Paul suggestion sounds great too.

robt57 · May 26th, 2008, 12:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by micpoc

I think it looks like a great rhythm guitar.

And esteban's Les Paul suggestion sounds great too.

Or a thin-line/ semi-hollow body with F-holes, loose the symmetrical Picguard, Stuff some Gibson P-94s in it and Jazz it, and much more.

Just don't hollow out the cut out side, in case you decide differently. ;)

eryque · May 26th, 2008, 12:18 AM

It looks kind of like something that would come out of Daisy Rock or one of the other companies trying to make cool, indy-looking guitars for the kids.

tomi · May 26th, 2008, 02:05 AM

As the owner of a black-on-black Tele with a maple fingerboard (CIJ '52), I have to say that your picture is probably going to give me nightmares. But that's just me. If you like it, I say "Build it!"

tuuur · May 26th, 2008, 03:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by esteban

IMO a non-cut Les Paul would look cooooooooool...

Your wish is my command!

I agree the double uncut tele looks weird, and like a mickey mouse guitar... but still... with double bindings, set up as a slide guitar... I'm tempted!

byrdbrain · May 26th, 2008, 06:19 AM

Just what the doctored ordered for those who indulge in too much
widdly-widdly-widdlying above the twelfth fret:
"Sorry, sir, you can play this one or a mandolin."

nosuch · May 26th, 2008, 06:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tuuur

We all know Fender's TC-90, or Double Cut Telecaster:

... which basically is a tele with its treble side copied and flipped.
That got me thinking... what would a double NON cut tele look like?

Here is my photoshopped result:

So what do you think... is this a weird idea, or worthy of building?

ah, you know what the cutaway is for, don't you?

tuuur · May 26th, 2008, 08:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nosuch

ah, you know what the cutaway is for, don't you?

Yep, I do! And I do play solos, but for that I got a strat and some teles and a Guild thunderbird copy.
But... the idea won't let me go. So I think I am going to build it and use it as a slide guitar.

nosuch · May 26th, 2008, 08:17 AM

then go ahead, bro!

TG · May 26th, 2008, 08:22 AM

Personally I don't like the look of the non cut tele. Body lines don't work or something.

But that non cut LP looks pretty nice. Gibson has made electric guitars with that outline anyway (es125) so the idea of a solid one works for me OK...and therefore looks right in my mind.

tuuur · May 26th, 2008, 09:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nosuch

then go ahead, bro!

I will!

The plan is already taking form.
It will get hardware I have lying around; a neck plus tuners of an old acoustic, one or two strat singlecoils, a rusty tailpiece of an old acoustic, a tune-o-matic bridge.
I got some IKEA Tryggve shelves left, so maybe it will get a body made of that... but the weathered neck and tailpiece may be suited better with a weathered body.

It won't exactly look like a telecaster.

Here is the original acoustic of which I'll use the neck. It sounded and played awful. Its plywood body is binned. Because I will use it as a slide guitar, the fretboard won't matter much.

esteban · May 26th, 2008, 10:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tuuur

Your wish is my command!

I agree the double uncut tele looks weird, and like a mickey mouse guitar... but still... with double bindings, set up as a slide guitar... I'm tempted!

Sweet! Like TG said, very ES-125ish.

pseudocat · May 26th, 2008, 10:30 AM

I like it.

woodman · May 26th, 2008, 01:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by J-man

If Mickey Mouse was a guitar...

dang, you beat me to it, J!

ramblinmike · May 26th, 2008, 01:59 PM

Hahaha I agree that it looks like a butt, but maybe in person it wouldn't be so bad. Up to you, and at the very least it would be unique!

JNE · May 26th, 2008, 02:16 PM

I'd say it's a bit weird (for obvious reasons already stated above) but then, I've toyed with an idea about 5-string Tele with no frets further up from the 15th fret, so who am I to judge yours...

If you'd make a Tele shaped lap steel with a square neck, then your idea for the body shape would be interesting IMHO (if you forget the Mickey Mouse imagery

, maybe with some other color and pickguard shape)

sean79 · May 26th, 2008, 02:24 PM

Some things look great with double humps.
Not sure that guitar is one of them. Probably doesn't look much better with the bottom hump offset either. Are you planning on installing a neck pickup?

tuuur · May 26th, 2008, 02:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sean79

Some things look great with double humps.
Not sure that guitar is one of them. Probably doesn't look much better with the bottom hump offset either. Are you planning on installing a neck pickup?

Nice idea! Maybe something for a next installment, now I'm all into this symmetrical project.

As the neck I plan to use comes from an acoustic, there will be a considerable part of the body covered by the fretboard; so I'll probably only install a neck pickup.

J-man · May 26th, 2008, 02:47 PM

How about this?

(Incredibly quick Photoshop)

bowlfreshener · May 26th, 2008, 02:59 PM

I wish there were some solid body double cut options...

Colt W. Knight · May 26th, 2008, 03:04 PM

The non cut tele would look better in my opinion if the headstock was bigger, possibly double sided

sean79 · May 26th, 2008, 03:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Colt W. Knight

The non cut tele would look better in my opinion if the headstock was bigger, possibly double sided

I think that's his plan.

Joe Chaney · May 26th, 2008, 04:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by J-man

How about this?

(Incredibly quick Photoshop)

i like that, like a kinda SG/tele

jazztele · May 26th, 2008, 05:31 PM

it looks like it's "shrugging."

i dunno. esquire it out electronically, and maybe go semi hollow to make up for the added weight for the lower shoulder...looks like it could be a fun project. i say do it.

tuuur · May 26th, 2008, 05:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by J-man

How about this?

(Incredibly quick Photoshop)

Yeah!

Uh... wait... I miss something...

why not add some offset to that bottom?

tuuur · May 26th, 2008, 05:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jazztele

it looks like it's "shrugging."

i dunno. esquire it out electronically, and maybe go semi hollow to make up for the added weight for the lower shoulder...looks like it could be a fun project. i say do it.

Definitely going the Esquire way. Gives me some experience in wiring as well.
I'm still in the "I can't decide if I wanna spend my money on all that guitar building stuff", so this is going to be an ultra cheap build.

tuuur · May 26th, 2008, 05:50 PM

The first things are done. Following the lines of the Tryggvecaster and the Teiscocaster, I started with a Tryggve plank that's going to be the middle part.
I'll make it a hollow body again, maybe with a f-hole, maybe even with two, I''m undecided yet.

Here's the first body part with the neck:

Close up of the body part and the headstock. The decal reads: Goldene Harfe (meaning gold harp in German, though on the backside it reads Made In Italy...)

RomanS · May 26th, 2008, 06:21 PM

I like the idea - all the frets above the 15th are completely useless, anyway, and it should be forbidden by the Human Rights Convention to torture eardrums with those piercing high frequencies, anyway...

Oh, and I guess you do know this one:

May 25th, 2008, 08:02 PM	#1 (permalink)
tuuur Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: the Netherlands Age: 41 Posts: 1,833 7 Photos	Weird idea or... the double non-cut Tele. We all know Fender's TC-90, or Double Cut Telecaster: ... which basically is a tele with its treble side copied and flipped. That got me thinking... what would a double NON cut tele look like? Here is my photoshopped result: So what do you think... is this a weird idea, or worthy of building? __________________ http://www.myspace.com/tuuur

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thekillingjoke Tele-Holic Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Plymouth, MI Age: 22 Posts: 547 4 Photos	You can if you want, but in my opinion it's not worth it. You lose crucial frets for soloing if you don't have the cut. __________________ This is Mit. She is my first love.

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nasonm Friend of Leo's Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Bangor, Maine Age: 32 Posts: 2,088 16 Photos	Eh...I doesn't light my fire, but I've known to have some weird ideas myself. If you want people to go...What thuh? Then go for it! You've reminded me that I've always wanted to at least try one of these... __________________ "i have learned to just grit my teeth, change the subject, consider their deep total ignorance, fondle the thumb picks in my pocket and go on my way" - bender-freak It's been lonely in the saddle since my horse died

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tomi Tele-Meister Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 424	As the owner of a black-on-black Tele with a maple fingerboard (CIJ '52), I have to say that your picture is probably going to give me nightmares. But that's just me. If you like it, I say "Build it!"

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byrdbrain Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Sweden Age: 51 Posts: 1,669 4 Photos	Just what the doctored ordered for those who indulge in too much widdly-widdly-widdlying above the twelfth fret: "Sorry, sir, you can play this one or a mandolin." __________________ In vino securitas

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TG Poster Extraordinaire Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Beside a bog in the west of Ireland Age: 48 Posts: 6,340 9 Photos	Personally I don't like the look of the non cut tele. Body lines don't work or something. But that non cut LP looks pretty nice. Gibson has made electric guitars with that outline anyway (es125) so the idea of a solid one works for me OK...and therefore looks right in my mind.

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JNE Tele-Meister Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Jaervenpaeae, Finland Age: 35 Posts: 191	I'd say it's a bit weird (for obvious reasons already stated above) but then, I've toyed with an idea about 5-string Tele with no frets further up from the 15th fret, so who am I to judge yours... If you'd make a Tele shaped lap steel with a square neck, then your idea for the body shape would be interesting IMHO (if you forget the Mickey Mouse imagery , maybe with some other color and pickguard shape) __________________ "If you can't sound good with 1 pup, how you gonna sound good with 2?" - furrfurrfurr

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Colt W. Knight Friend of Leo's Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: West Virginia Age: 25 Posts: 4,086	The non cut tele would look better in my opinion if the headstock was bigger, possibly double sided

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jazztele Friend of Leo's Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: chicago Age: 30 Posts: 4,101	it looks like it's "shrugging." i dunno. esquire it out electronically, and maybe go semi hollow to make up for the added weight for the lower shoulder...looks like it could be a fun project. i say do it. __________________ "Jazz isn't a what, it's a how" -- Bill Evans

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tuuur Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: the Netherlands Age: 41 Posts: 1,833 7 Photos	Started building tonight! The first things are done. Following the lines of the Tryggvecaster and the Teiscocaster, I started with a Tryggve plank that's going to be the middle part. I'll make it a hollow body again, maybe with a f-hole, maybe even with two, I''m undecided yet. Here's the first body part with the neck: Close up of the body part and the headstock. The decal reads: Goldene Harfe (meaning gold harp in German, though on the backside it reads Made In Italy...) __________________ http://www.myspace.com/tuuur

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