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  • new project: Here's the body

    The last bass listed on my signature is a Warmoth Custom Tele that's been in the making for a long time. It'll have two Custom Shop SCPB pickups.

    Just got the attached picture from the finisher. It's a nitro black finish.

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    Now it's on it's way to New York for the actual build.

    dg
    '69 Fender Mustang bass
    '69 Gibson EB-1
    '76 Rickenbacker 4001 w/SD for Rick N & B
    '76 Fender Precision w/Dimarzio Model P
    '84 MIJ Fender Jazz Bass Special w/SD Hot for P neck & Dimarzio Model J for bridge [BEAD tuning]
    '99 Fretless MIJ Fender Precision/'87 MIJ Fender Squier Jazz hybrid w/SD QP for Jazz
    '12 MIM Fender Jazz w/Dimarzio Model J
    '14 Fretless Warmoth Custom T w/ SDCS Stack for SCPB N & B

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    Re: new project: Here's the body

    I can't wait! I loves me some Tele style bass!
    sigpic Wes
    Originally posted by Robert S.
    I love you too Charlie!
    Now I have to find a way to gouge out my minds eye.

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    • #3
      Re: new project: Here's the body

      Thanks, threechordscharlie. This has been a long time in the making. Maricela from the Custom Shops made the pickups years ago and they sat becasue I never had the funds for the rest of the build. Then I corresponded with Derek Duncan and he reverse wound one of them this past summer so that I can use a DPDT pot for series-parallel switching, which I have on my Squier Jazz and love. Tony Dudzik http://www.pickguardian.com, who has made three other pickguards for me, made a guard based on the Tele Thinline guard. The bass is sort modeled on the guitar Mick Jones is playing below.

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      I am also a big Keef fan (obviously a big Tele player) and the body will arrive at my tech's shop on his 70th birthday.

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      The bass with have Gotoh GB7s, a Gotoh 201 bridge, and a Warmoth AAA Birdseye maple neck.

      Hopefully will have it for Christmas.

      dg
      '69 Fender Mustang bass
      '69 Gibson EB-1
      '76 Rickenbacker 4001 w/SD for Rick N & B
      '76 Fender Precision w/Dimarzio Model P
      '84 MIJ Fender Jazz Bass Special w/SD Hot for P neck & Dimarzio Model J for bridge [BEAD tuning]
      '99 Fretless MIJ Fender Precision/'87 MIJ Fender Squier Jazz hybrid w/SD QP for Jazz
      '12 MIM Fender Jazz w/Dimarzio Model J
      '14 Fretless Warmoth Custom T w/ SDCS Stack for SCPB N & B

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      • #4
        Re: new project: Here's the body

        All of my electric six strings are Telecasters. I'm a fan!
        sigpic Wes
        Originally posted by Robert S.
        I love you too Charlie!
        Now I have to find a way to gouge out my minds eye.

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        • #5
          Re: new project: Here's the body

          The only instrument I ever sold was a cream colored Tele 6-sting that had some sort of weird, tiny 3-way switch (have never seen another one like it). Have regretted it ever since.
          '69 Fender Mustang bass
          '69 Gibson EB-1
          '76 Rickenbacker 4001 w/SD for Rick N & B
          '76 Fender Precision w/Dimarzio Model P
          '84 MIJ Fender Jazz Bass Special w/SD Hot for P neck & Dimarzio Model J for bridge [BEAD tuning]
          '99 Fretless MIJ Fender Precision/'87 MIJ Fender Squier Jazz hybrid w/SD QP for Jazz
          '12 MIM Fender Jazz w/Dimarzio Model J
          '14 Fretless Warmoth Custom T w/ SDCS Stack for SCPB N & B

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          • #6
            Re: new project: Here's the body

            Wow... Youd make a helluva salesman....none of the ingredients seem much up my alley (diff tastes, not quality issues), yet here I am finding myself WANTING IT
            "New stuff always sucks" -Me

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            • #7
              Re: new project: Here's the body

              Originally posted by Adieu View Post
              Wow... Youd make a helluva salesman....none of the ingredients seem much up my alley (diff tastes, not quality issues), yet here I am finding myself WANTING IT
              I'll take that as a compliment!

              This has been in the works for far too long. Now I'm hoping to get it by Christmas...
              '69 Fender Mustang bass
              '69 Gibson EB-1
              '76 Rickenbacker 4001 w/SD for Rick N & B
              '76 Fender Precision w/Dimarzio Model P
              '84 MIJ Fender Jazz Bass Special w/SD Hot for P neck & Dimarzio Model J for bridge [BEAD tuning]
              '99 Fretless MIJ Fender Precision/'87 MIJ Fender Squier Jazz hybrid w/SD QP for Jazz
              '12 MIM Fender Jazz w/Dimarzio Model J
              '14 Fretless Warmoth Custom T w/ SDCS Stack for SCPB N & B

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