Show your Partscasters...

USACG has great stuff. Look at the headstock grain in this quatersawn neck from them. Rob is a great. Like your Tele's.

 

Max Kerrang, the Cabropartsnita



Rutters pine body, finished with black Colortone dye and Tru-Oil
Warmoth 10-16" compound radius, boatneck contour, also finished in Tru-oil
Rutters chopped bridge
Gotoh kluson-style staggered locking tuners
TVJ Classic+ PU

If I was doing it again, I'd only change the neck radius and contour; I've come to realize that I prefer 9.5" and a modern C-shaped neck.



The neck has darkened nicely under the T-O in the 3 years since this pic was taken.

After reading the entire Emeraldcaster thread, I'm starting to look around on my wall for something to sparkle-ize; this one's a prime candidate. Might be red sparkle next time you see it....

 

Pinecaster w/ neck from a 1980's E-series Japan Squier Bullet, Fralin Classic T pickups, tuners came on Bullet neck, Reranch nitro, Wilkinson bridge, CTS pots. Great neck that seems to play itself and I like how the guitar sounds.

 

My parts tele:



-Alder body from GFS factory buyout sale
-squier CV neck
-3 hipshot modern style tuners, 3 stock squier CV ones
-tung oil finish on body
-P-90 in the neck position, hot overwound tele pup in the bridge
-vintage style bridge with 3 non compensated saddles
-reverse control plate
-LP jack plate and switchcraft jack.

And it likes blood. cuts my hand almost every gig.

 

Here's my pinstriper. Brian Poe swamp ash body with reranch copper paint, Joe Barden bridge and saddles, Seymour Duncan pickups, Warmoth flame maple boatneck 10-16 radius gloss tint neck, vintage Kluson tuners, heavy knurl dome knobs, electrosocket jack. Roger Nelson with the pinstripe brush. A little over 7 lbs.

 

MIM 60s body/ Squier CVC neck. Novak 'stock' pickups




CIJ 52 body/ CIJ Micawbre neck. Rumpelstiltskin '1950' pickups

 

posted before, but somewhat lost in the new format

• MiJ Alder body from the '80s that started out like this
• stripped, sprayed with Nitro without much effort to hide accumulated dings and divots
• '80s Schecter 22 fret Rosewood neck
• DiMarzio Twang King neck & bridge, '80s DiMarzio Strat-style middle pickups
• Fender 3 saddle bridge (not shown, vintage ashtray cover)
• Nashville-style 3 ply pickguard
• 5 way switch wired a bit differently to keep the Tele-style neck + bridge and Strat-style middle + neck sounds: B, B+N, N, M+N, M
• Glendale pots and PiO capacitor
• MiJ Kluson-style tuners
• Electrosocket & Switchcraft jack
• old control plate I had laying around reversed

I'm still fiddling with it, the pickguard needs to move towards the neck a bit more.

I'm going to replace the nickel pickup adjustment bolts with black ones, to make the middle pickup a bit more stealthy.

 

Carved Warmoth mahogany body, pattern on pickguard and control plate is laser etched.
Neck is dyed the same red as body with rosewood fretboard.
CTS pots, switchcraft 5-way, Seymour Duncan pickups.

 

Here's my 2 - Trans red Warmoth swamp ash with Warmoth neck, an Squier Affinity BSB with Warmoth conversion neck (24.75")

 

Squier jagmaster painted surf green with gfs surf 90 pickups..



The white telecaster in the middle with USACG neck and hand wound pickups..

 

Thanks BritishBluesBoy, appreciate the start of this thread. (btw, Brooklyn is my home town, but not many Teles there when I was growing up). Here ya go:

Specs:
Warmoth Fatback neck vintage specs and frets
Warmoth swamp ash body
Colortone dyes and tru-oil finish (no dye on neck, just Tru-oil)
Fender OV pups
Fender bridgeplate
StewMac brass saddles
Gotoh staggered nickel tuners
D'Addario pure nickel strings
Decal by JBennett (on this forum)
Tweed strap (just had to get it)

Result:
Pure sweet retro Tele sounds!

 

These are all great looking guitars!

Here's mine.














Musikraft body (ash) and neck (walnut). Sprayed with garnet shellac flakes for the color, then clear coated with satin rattle can lacquer.

DiMarzio True Velvet pickups with 5 way switching. Sperzel tuners.

 

When does a partscaster no longer get to be called a partscaster? When it's no longer a copy/replica/tribute?

I still have these and use them daily/weekly:

First I ever made.
USACG 1pc swamp ash body
Musikraft superflame neck (has warped twice in 4 years)
Fender hardware, CTS/CRL/Luxe wiry bits
Don Mare Tweed Monster pickup
Fender headstock and logo (I was young and folish)



Second I ever made.
USACG 1pc swamp ash body, tummy and forearm carve
USACG rosewood board on maple neck
Original super-limited Stainless Strate-Plate Glendale bridge
Fender hardware, CTS/CRL/Luxe wiry bits
Duncan lil '59 bridge
Neck varies from no pickup (Esquire), P90 or dual Tele neck pickups wired like a Strat



Tried my hand at relicing..
Musikraft swamp ash body
Musikraft quartersawn maple neck
Fender hardware, CTS/CRL/Luxe wiry bits
PIctured with Don Mare Zep-O-Tone but now with Duncan hot rails
Duncan '59 neck



After I got adventurous...
USACG 1pc swamp ash body
USACG maple board on maple neck
Original super-limited humbucker Glendale bridge (never seen another like it)
Fender hardware, CTS/CRL/Luxe wiry bits
Gibson Iommi bridge
Gibson P94 neck



Got the Strat bug...
USACG swamp ash body
USACG rosewood board on maple neck
Callaham bridge
Fender hardware, CTS/CRL/Luxe wiry bits
Custom built Gilmour-spec pickups by Chevalier



Everyone needs 7 strings...
Made by me swamp ash body
Made by me rosewood board on maple neck
ABR bridge
Glendale hardware, CTS/CRL/Luxe wiry bits
Custom built pickup by Vintage Vibe (Pete Biltoft)



Partscaster? I dunno...
Made by me swamp ash body
Made by me rosewood board on torrefied maple neck
Rutters hardware, CTS/CRL/Luxe wiry bits
Bridge and neck P90s by Michael Reilander




Built a bunch from scratch for people.
I've got a few others but I don't play them much.

 

Probably not the thread for this discussion, but I personally don't like the term "partscaster". It seems to be the name thrown around to describe any Fender like guitar that isn't 100% factory stock. A term used more for resale value than an actual guitar description. I believe the guitars that you have put together here are so much better than 90% of what come out of the Fender factory these days. It's a shame that some label like partscaster will turn away some people from really appreciating the quality of what you have.
Amazing collection you have there btw.

 

My latest build - "Stelly"

Ash body
Mighty Mite Soft V maple neck
Wilkinson Tuners
Wilkinson Tremolo
TTS Black Label Country Tele Set
4 Way switch



FrankenNashville

'90s MCI Intertek body
Allparts vintage tele neck
Kent Armstrong Hot Tele set wired with a 4 way switch
Kent Armstrong Vintage Strat middle pickup wired to an on/off mini toggle





2012 Hanover HawkCaster fundraiser guitar raffled off to raise money for my daughter's high school orchestra.

Alder body
Mighty Mite Neck
Custom Rose Pickups Tele set



Richard PettyCaster

First Act Delia Body??
Tele neck with block inlays
Rose Pickups Mozart Set
GFS Xtrem with Chet Atkins arm
the King's autograph!

 

Nice guitar, I would love to have his hat!

 

Thank you! there was actually a documentary on recently that showed the factory that makes his hats and how they make them. Apparently, he has a bunch of them!

 

Booty Monster - another fundraiser guitar donated to the 24 Hours of Booty bicycling event in the fight against cancer. The orange and gray were the colors for this event/organization.

Capri Orange Paulownia body
Vintage tint maple neck
Gray sparkle pickguard
TTS Black Label pickups
4 way switch.



2011 Hanover HawkCaster Orchestra Fundraiser guitar done in school colors

Paulownia body in British Racing Green
Blue Mirror pickguard
BG Pickup Set
4 Way switch




La Frankenita

Alder body with strat contours made by Marc Rutters
Mighty Mite soft V maple neck
Gretsch Filtertrons



Surf Monster

Refinished Squier strat body in a white wash stain
Allparts 70's neck
GFS Surf 90 pickups



Strat-o-Ranger

Warmoth Swamp Ash body
Warmoth maple neck with ebony board
Kent Armstrong Vintage 12 N in neck, Tweedtone Strat in middle, Hot Tele Bridge
6 way rotary switch
mini switch for series/split/parallel on neck humbucker



Son of Frankentele

GFS Paulownia body bound with amber flametop
SX Neck with older headstock design
Pickups from Squier CV '50's tele