Thinline telecaster - mahogany body with maple top

[juans82]

Hi guys, just started this build last december.

Its going to be just the body.
I had a nice peace of mahogany but it was a bit slim for a tele body, so I decided to route it, and with a nice maple top, complete a thinline tele.

The neck is from a Squier Tele Custom that I had, and has been reliced through some years of playing by my sweaty-hands brother.

But I love that neck, has modern 9,5" radius and jumbo frets, all maple.

The pus will be Lindy Fralins P92, which are said to be P90s, in humbucker size without the hum and buzz.

It will go with faux binding and probably an orange color.

Here are the pics so far:



































Some chipping along the way








But quickly fixed with some titebond









Then removing some wood













Routing the inner pattern for the thinline











Now working on the maple top












Here the body and top meeting, begining hopefully a long time romance












Thats all for now!

[juans82]

ok, here I am again
got some work done


sanded the F some more

when I was done, I glued both pieces together, then proceeded to route the extra maple form the top, and then, sand, sand, sand, and sand my hands off to get out all those damn bit marks left at the edge

man, Im tired form sanding!


















there are some parts where the top did not glued as tight as I would liked to the body.

Is there some sort of filler that can be used to fill those gaps????

[glen smith]

Once you route for the neck pocket and the neck pickup there won't be much left to fill. Are you planning on installing binding?

[juans82]

No, Im planning on having faux binding on it

like this beauty Jack made:

[Bentley]

Are you spraying the finish or dying it first?

[lookslikemeband]

Very cool project!

[glen smith]

Originally Posted by juans82

No, Im planning on having faux binding on it

like this beauty Jack made:

Ah yes, that will look great!

[juans82]

Originally Posted by Bentley

Are you spraying the finish or dying it first?

Dying it first
After some clear laquer sprayed

[tewiq]

Been thinking of doing one of these myself so I'll be watching this one very closely :D . May I ask where you got your templates , did you make them or buy them? I like the binding idea, should look awsome. :)

[juans82]

the templates I borrowed them from a friendo of mine that build guitars

If I'm not mistaken, he downloaded the blueprints from here, and have them laser cut in mdf

[nickhofen]

Very nice I like the maple

[juans82]

Well, after a couple of weeks, here I am again
this time pickup cavities were rotued
neck pocket also routed, as weel as back control cavity
bridge also placed and string through holes done

next step, sand a lot and then start testing dyes for the top

[glen smith]

Nice progress !