Tele with Strat Trem, how?

[giogolf]

Hey All,
I want to build a Tele with a strat tremelo, and pickups. Can I buy a body with this route already? If so from who? Thanks

[PhatTele]

I got mine from Guitar Mill. They did a great job (though I kept the stock Tele PU route). You can also get any route you need from Warmoth.

[giogolf]

Do you have a pic? Did you install a Standard Strat Trem? Thanks

[nicktele5150]

im fixin to put a jazzmaster trem on my tele in a week or two it seems much simpiler than doing all the routing for a strat style trem

[JasonRobert]

Originally Posted by nicktele5150

im fixin to put a jazzmaster trem on my tele in a week or two it seems much simpiler than doing all the routing for a strat style trem

That would be good. I feel the jazzmaster trem would look better on a tele, than the strat. for some reason strat trems only look good on strats to me.

[giogolf]

yeah, but I really want to take a standard black telecaster with maple neck, white pickguard, and have strat trem with strat pickups.

[PhatTele]

I used an "aged" Callaham bridge unit and a stock vintage style Tele bridge plate w/the stamped Fender logo. I used a dremel tool to cut the back out of the plate. I left the raised sides and slipped the Strat trem inside. So, when you look at it from the top, the pivot screws on the Strat bridge fit inside and are surrounded by the bridge plate. From a distance, you sort of have to look twice to notice that it isn't a standard Tele bridge plate. Because I removed most of the back of the plate, I mounted the plate to the face of the guitar using four small screws.

It works great and sounds just like a Tele should. I have about 6 Teles. so, I have a lot of them to compare to.

I don't have a picture of mine to post, but it looks a lot like the blonde w/black pickguard picture in the following thread except I left the "wings" made up of the sides of the bridge plate that I described above:

http://www.tdpri.com/forum/telecaste...my-bigsby.html

It's my surf & turf Tele.

[giogolf]

Oh baby!!!! I want I want I want... Where can I get this?????

[giogolf]

Hey PhatTele, are there diagrams for routing the body to allow a Strat trem? I am a better than average wood worker, however, I never routed a guitar body. Do you think I could rout out a trem box? Or do you do this sort of thing for a living, maybe I can send you a tele body? Thanks

[nicktele5150]

hey giogolf do you want the looks of a strat trem or do you want to keep the tele look cause if you want to keep the tele look tremking makes a tremolo for tele it preforms like a strat and looks like a tele and plus there cheap around 130

[giogolf]

Originally Posted by nicktele5150

hey giogolf do you want the looks of a strat trem or do you want to keep the tele look cause if you want to keep the tele look tremking makes a tremolo for tele it preforms like a strat and looks like a tele and plus there cheap around 130

I came across the TremKing. Never heard of them, but the video on the site was pretty informative (not my music style). However, after coming across the picture posted above that PhatTele directed me towards, I like that look the most. I am confident I could shave a tele bridge plate to look like that, but not sure I can handle routing the trem.

[nicktele5150]

it never hurts to try you could always replace the body if you screw it up.buy a strat tremolo router template from stewart macdonalds it might help alitttle

[PhatTele]

I'm a tinkerer when it comes to putting guitars together. So, like I said, I had Guitar Mill do all the wood working and finishing (which I tweaked a bit to match the neck that I got my neck from Billy Rowe at http://www.rocknrollrelics.net/) I got the pickups from Lindy Fralin (he's here in town). I did the assembly, wiring, set up, and metal working for the PU plate.

This is the picture and sound that really inspired me to do this project in the first place:

http://www.rockabillyhall.com/EddieAngel1.html

[giogolf]

Originally Posted by PhatTele

I'm a tinkerer when it comes to putting guitars together. So, like I said, I had Guitar Mill do all the wood working and finishing (which I tweaked a bit to match the neck that I got my neck from Billy Rowe at http://www.rocknrollrelics.net/) I got the pickups from Lindy Fralin (he's here in town). I did the assembly, wiring, set up, and metal working for the PU plate.

This is the picture and sound that really inspired me to do this project in the first place:

http://www.rockabillyhall.com/EddieAngel1.html

I just emailed Guitar Mill about a standard Tele body with strat trem route. So we will see what they say.

[giogolf]

An update...

Well Guitar mill never emailed me back but Tommy at USACG got back to me within an hour. He can do a standard tele with strat trem rout.

[magicguitar]

I went for the whole kit and kaboodle and had Thom at Delta Luthiery make me a Tele body with all the Strat routes.

[giogolf]

that look so cool. do you have a pic of the whole guitar?

[straightface]

Tommy's great! He'll do a top notch job.

[magicguitar]

Here ya go:

[giogolf]

Very nice, really dig that look

[mertzy]

Take a look at this Dalmore thread here on TDPRI.

This is a build thread where Arlo has Ron Kirn build a Tele using a Glendale Chimemaster which is a Stratocaster trem that uses Tele saddles.

[giogolf]

really cool build. the chimemaster is sweet bridge