And all of a sudden I have this idea for a tele.

[Blazer]

Well, around a month ago I finished building THIS.

Of which I really like the color, in person it's actually more green in tint.

I also gotten my hands on a set of THESE

Which are Gretsch pickups like those on their baritone Jet model.

And I also still have THESE.

Which haven't been used yet.

So I was watching this clip about Leo Fender's office at G&L and there's this unfinished Tele body with MFD prototype pickups. Sitting on the top shelf of his work bench, and I'm going "How would a guitar like that look in that shade of green?"

So, this shall be the result of that flash of inspiration. Right now, it's 1:45 at night though, so I won't start building it right away, but in time I will.

 

[Paulie_Boy]

Atta boy! Post pics!

 

[Zepfan]

Those minibuckers should be great. Just got a set of my own.

 

[Blazer]

Been a while since I updated this thread, but now I finally have some news.

You see, the old kitchen table was due for a replacement and I was looking at that solid pine structure and going "H'mmm..."

I could get three bodies out of that thing.

What you see here are the front and the back of two sandwich constructed bodies, the one with the ugliest wood grain will end up with the green paint. Although, I could finish both of them in green.

So what about that third body I mentioned?

Yeah, that would never work as the wood grain goes across. But, I thought of that, because I shall use the wood of the frame of the table to sandwich onto that to make it a usable body.

 

[peterg]

Been a while since I updated this thread, but now I finally have some news.

You see, the old kitchen table was due for a replacement and I was looking at that solid pine structure and going "H'mmm..."
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I could get three bodies out of that thing.

What you see here are the front and the back of two sandwich constructed bodies, the one with the ugliest wood grain will end up with the green paint. Although, I could finish both of them in green.
View attachment 1318181View attachment 1318182
So what about that third body I mentioned?

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Yeah, that would never work as the wood grain goes across. But, I thought of that, because I shall use the wood of the frame of the table to sandwich onto that to make it a usable body.

I don’t see any ugly wood grain! How thick is the slab?

 

[Blazer]

I don’t see any ugly wood grain! How thick is the slab?

Thick enough that when stacked, it has the full thickness of a normal telecaster body.

As in 4.5 centimeters thick, I don't know how much that in inches.

 

[LeftFinger]

That table is laminated like butcher block . Each top is 9pcs add the bottom makes 18 laminations per guitar

Should be stable after all these years that's 1.77 inches

 

[Blazer]

I'm thinking about making the second one with twin P90 pickups as I have a set of those lying around.

 

[Blazer]

Yeah, me and my go-to guy did some work.

 

[Blazer]

Took me a while, but life got in the way.

But today, I did some work.

Routed this one for P90 pickups, the neck pocket and the body bevels.

 

[Blazer]

I guess the picture says enough.

There's still enough to do, I'm not done yet.

 

[prairietelecaster]

Cool, on my watch list now!

 

[arlum]

The mind is a beautiful thing. I'm so glad to see you using yours. Ideas are the starting point. Good luck!

 

[Blazer]

Just trucking along, applying lacquer, sanding it smooth and applying more.

It's difficult to really get the shade in this photograph right. In real life, it's actually way greener than blue. The P90's a nice contrast.

 

[Blazer]

Putting together the control panel.

 

[getbent]

Been a while since I updated this thread, but now I finally have some news.

You see, the old kitchen table was due for a replacement and I was looking at that solid pine structure and going "H'mmm..."
View attachment 1318179
I could get three bodies out of that thing.

What you see here are the front and the back of two sandwich constructed bodies, the one with the ugliest wood grain will end up with the green paint. Although, I could finish both of them in green.
View attachment 1318181View attachment 1318182
So what about that third body I mentioned?

View attachment 1318180
Yeah, that would never work as the wood grain goes across. But, I thought of that, because I shall use the wood of the frame of the table to sandwich onto that to make it a usable body.

put benders in them!

 

[1948ManJim]

Leave one with the butcher-block natural grain look. It's cool.

 

[Blazer]

We're slowly but surely getting there. I actually used the neck from that double cut I started this thread with. I still need to source the screws to secure the pickups in there before I can wire the whole thing up.

That second one will be exactly like this one but in Fiesta red.

 

[hopdybob]

nice

 

[jvin248]

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Looks like a fun guitar so far.

Rotate the control plate: volume, tone, switch to the rear. The Kirchen mod.

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