Another tele I built

[blakejcan]

Well....I built the body from scratch and bought the flamey roasted maple Warmoth neck. Maybe one day I'll get the tools and bravado needed to try to do a neck myself. It's a swamp ash body that has been chambered out to remove some meat with a quilted maple top and some fun little burst like guys on the back and sides. Oh yea I put a piece of walnut sandwiched down the middle as well. Cut and shaped the pickguard and backplate out of acrylic.

Has bareknuckle mississippi queens in there that I am excited to try. Just need to make a nut, wire it up and set it up and we're good. Finish is not perfect close up but it's as good as I have patience for and for rattlecans it's pretty good.

For your approval:

[jeremy]

i like it! nice top too. probably pretty light weight?

[Fender_Punk]

Looks great! It's neat to see a guitar with one color on the top and a burst on the back.

Any particular reason for sandwiching the walnut?

[playas]

That's a spectacular looking piece of work.

[Mincer]

How exciting! Can't wait to hear what this sounds like!

[blakejcan]

Looks great! It's neat to see a guitar with one color on the top and a burst on the back.

Any particular reason for sandwiching the walnut?

Prince's tele has something similar and I just liked the look. Not sure it will do anything other than add a stripe. Ha!

[donaldr]

Beautiful. But not sure about the pickguard on such a nice top.

[blakejcan]

Beautiful. But not sure about the pickguard on such a nice top.

I actually fudged up one of the locations for the volume pot so I decided to add a guard to cover up the plug.

[PFDarkside]

Very nice!

[Fender_Punk]

Prince's tele has something similar and I just liked the look. Not sure it will do anything other than add a stripe. Ha!

RIP Prince, what an artist. Nothing wrong with paying homage.

[blakejcan]

i like it! nice top too. probably pretty light weight?

Not as light as I thought it was going to be. I chambered it using the same template as when I built a thinline tele so there is a lot removed but I think that maple center piece adds some weight back in. I have a roasted ash body that feels lighter than this.

Some day I'll build a roasted ash body that is chambered and the whole thing will weight about 5 lbs

[Mincer]

A thing to be careful with ultra light bodies, is that they can be neck heavy. I did a chambered Strat of swamp ash, and while really light, made the guitar slightly neck heavy.

[blakejcan]

to counter that I chamber my necks. haha

altho as I type that out, I am sure someone out there has done that

[JamesPaul]

I like it and cannot believe it was finished with rattlecans. The Walnut strip is an impressive touch!

[Dave Locher]

That's funny, I'm working on a walnut body right now and just decided to put a maple strip in the back just because.
Beautiful guitar - subtle but unique