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I'm getting a real Florida + Georgia vibe from the thread starting guard.

You should probably post a few pictures of the speaker and any text that's on it.

Hah hah, yes, i probably won't be helpful then. I wasn't looking for that body specifically but i'm really glad i found it, it's great. Definitely don't look at their ready to ship inventory daily. for weeks. that'd just be a bad idea ;)

You could always swap the bridge on most any tele to a top loader. I just put together a tele with a top loader bridge plate that's also drilled for ferrules so i've got both options. or even string through for the wound strings and top load for the others (Eek! ;) )

I had a similar problem with the balance of my tele (partscaster). Here are some observations i made while building up another which my be useful to this discussion (link). The key thing is the balance was the primary issue rather than the overall weight - and neck dive is a bummer. There's a...

Similar situation in some ways: I went into a guitar center in my town one day and they had an american telecaster hanging on the wall that had fallen to the floor - i think just earlier that day. It had a single mark like yours on the upper bout but had broken through the finish to wood, which...

thank you! i'm glad i took the time to do it this way. I rushed through the assembly of my last one for no good reason, for this one i just decided i wouldn't be in a hurry at all and would try to do the best job i could (and not sweat it).

Yup, it was a 1 piece alder body and it was finished. They do have a really good selection of unfinished bodies ready to go and i was going to go that route and work on finishing it myself. It so happens that my garage is open to the outside and it's pretty cold here lately so not the best place...

When i built the first one it wasn't something i was thinking about at all. I think the extreme imbalance was what turned me on to it being a concern. When i bought my first body i asked them for something "really light" (or some such thing). When i got it it the finished weight (no parts etc)...

I put together a parts telecaster in 2019. It was my first build (assembly is probably the right term, right?) and while it turned out pretty good i never really liked it. I'd selected a bunch of nice parts and my body and neck were high-quality. It ended up being a pretty light build coming in...

That's a great looking piece of wood there. I just finished building a guitarmill telecaster - it was one of their "Get It Now" bodies. I'm really impressed with it.

Hi @Lou Kash - i'm wondering which neck you ended up with and how you like it? I'm trying to figure out what profile to get for a telecaster project and the specs you mention are similar to what i've been looking at. (1.75" w/ 9.5"-12" radius). I too like the 1.75" wide nut on acoustics and am...

Interesting, some day over the holidays i'll give it another go. In the past dealing with the spaghetti mess of wires was the main contributor to my just passing everything into the input. That and primarily that i wasn't hearing any significant benefit to running it that way. I was still pretty...

Nothing to add but i'm going to follow your build. I built one of these a couple of years back and i love it. I have it driving a 2x12 cabinet, it sounds fantastic and i can play it whenever i want at volume. The only thing i'd change if i were to do it again is to leave out the effects loop. I...

I used a satin poly from General Finishes on a butcherblock desktop recently and it turned out really nicely. I think it was 3 coats overall. I've been raised by the internet telling me that poly finishes on guitars is "bad" and nitro or oil are "good," (probably in that order). what to do...

This turned out great! I love the vinyl pickguard, was it difficult to cut out? (it looks really clean). Would you mind sharing which products you used? I'm primarily interested in the butterscotch tint, it looks like you nailed the color. I'm planning out a similar project and trying to...

I'm planning out what will be my 2nd t-style (partscaster) build and i've been combing the forum search for pointers. I took a good shot a few years ago but i ended up with a guitar that's way out of balance (the body is too light or the neck is too heavy) and i'm trying to figure out how to not...

Similar excellent experience with Sandy. Took me a few builds to get faceplates made, i always figured it'd be a bag of worms. Turns out she makes it straight-forward, quick, and reasonably priced.

12-7/8" center to center on my (i think) Weber 5F2a chassis

Interesting, I'm going to try to play it some more through both loads this afternoon, i kind of ran out of time last night after wiring it up. I put the wiring together based on the info in this thread. Is there a good way to verify one way vs. the other is correct, or equal?

All done, it worked perfectly. after thinking through the wiring change with the OT of course i'd need to swap the primaries. I didn't play long but it sounds great through an 8ohm and 16 ohm loads. I even got to break out the brother labeler to see if i could make it look intentional.

I'm going to see about getting the impedance switch wired up this afternoon. Here's my slightly modified layout for it so i don't need to put extra wire into the switch lugs. 8 ohm tap (orange) for the OT connects to the negative feedback resistor wire from the junction of the negative...

Here are a couple of gotchas i figured out and had to work around building this - mostly due to the added thickness of the face plates. The chassis material and plastic faceplate material together are about 1/8" thick. "Normal" alpha pots wouldn't fit, they don't have enough thread. CTS pots do...

Highly recommended, good luck with it!

Here are some more detail pictures of the rear and top of the chassis and the requested gut shots. The hole near the speaker jack is where my (to be installed) impedance selector switch goes. You can see some of my messy soldering ;) One other mod i noticed that i'd forgotten about - also at...