St_Genesius
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I'll skip the story for now and just hit you with the pic:
Body is a eBay cheapo made from 18 planks of pine, pulled out of a house. It was cut somewhat inexpertly, so I had to make some adjustments to get the geometry right. The seller finished it in a blue-leaning-slightly-turquoise, with a nitro clear. My pic doesn't really show the color well.
Neck is an all-bubinga WD thing I bought years ago. It's VERRRRY chunky. Sanded it to 400 and left it totally raw. Feels great. Frets are a little sharp, though.
Headstock is whitewashed with thinned cream acrylic, then given a quick spritz of nitro clear. And then I drilled through the front by accident, while installing the tuners, because I'm stupid. Oh well. PIc makes it look like it matches the body, and it even looks that way in person at times, but...it really doesn't. At all. Weird trick of the light. I think it looks reasonably cool, though.
Bridge pickup is a TV Jones. I forget what he calls them, but they're suppsed to sound somehwere between a Tele pickup and a Dearmond, I think? I have a matching neck pickup, but I also had on hand...
Neck pickup is a Curtis Novak Gold Foil (with silver foil). I figure if I hate it, I can cover up the screw holes with a pickguard and use the TV Jone neck pickup instead.
As of this morning, it's totally playable and intonates about as well as any 3-saddle Tele I've played. Which is to say: almost.
So what does it sound like plugged in? NO IDEA. I haven't soldered it yet. Because I'm the world's worst solderer.
Body is a eBay cheapo made from 18 planks of pine, pulled out of a house. It was cut somewhat inexpertly, so I had to make some adjustments to get the geometry right. The seller finished it in a blue-leaning-slightly-turquoise, with a nitro clear. My pic doesn't really show the color well.
Neck is an all-bubinga WD thing I bought years ago. It's VERRRRY chunky. Sanded it to 400 and left it totally raw. Feels great. Frets are a little sharp, though.
Headstock is whitewashed with thinned cream acrylic, then given a quick spritz of nitro clear. And then I drilled through the front by accident, while installing the tuners, because I'm stupid. Oh well. PIc makes it look like it matches the body, and it even looks that way in person at times, but...it really doesn't. At all. Weird trick of the light. I think it looks reasonably cool, though.
Bridge pickup is a TV Jones. I forget what he calls them, but they're suppsed to sound somehwere between a Tele pickup and a Dearmond, I think? I have a matching neck pickup, but I also had on hand...
Neck pickup is a Curtis Novak Gold Foil (with silver foil). I figure if I hate it, I can cover up the screw holes with a pickguard and use the TV Jone neck pickup instead.
As of this morning, it's totally playable and intonates about as well as any 3-saddle Tele I've played. Which is to say: almost.
So what does it sound like plugged in? NO IDEA. I haven't soldered it yet. Because I'm the world's worst solderer.
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