Sometimes, a guitar needs a new neck, or the body gets destroyed beyond repair during production. All that I can do, is save the neck for a rainy day, and make a new neck out of it.
Last few months, I worked (I'm not gonna say hard) at these two. I'm so glad to finally have reached a point in my life, my career, that I can make something with my hands that my mind sees.
It was not easy, I'll be honest. The necks were never made to fit these guitars so I had to make a few custom templates for the neck pocket, muck around a it with the neck pocket templates and angles, but in the end, we got there.
Because the necks are simply rebooted, by virtue of new binding, new frets, and a new neckshape, these guitars are what I call, part of my Rebooted Ash series.
The Tele is very close to a 'real' tele, but with a glued in neck with a 24.75'' scale 22 fretboard, and an easy access heel and neck joint. Just to make the body a bit more sleek. The F-hole is largely esthetic. The body is 2 piece quartersawn ash, and the pickups are custom pickups by Johan Lundgren, based on the M6 series. These pickups have a lot of attack, akin to an axe. Extremely unapologetic, hot, tight, crunchy, and syrupy without ever getting fat.
The SuperStrat features the same body, but now with a Hipshot US Contour trem instead of a Floyd Rose. The neck is a 25.5'' scale 24 fretter, and this axe sounds way snappier, brighter, tighter. The pickups...
Man. The pickups. I should have bought these YEARS ago. They're just bog-standard EVO's! Middle pickup is an EVO middle pickup too, by the way. I never thought I'd love the EVO's but I do. The neck pickup is fluid, clear, clean, and a bit bright so you can fatten it up with the tonepot. The bridge pickup is precise, every even EQ, and crunches with rhythm, but sings and flows with leads. Very, very happy with that. The toggle engages the middle pickup to all 5way settings. It drops the output with approximately 6dB, and adds a ton of high end. Then there's also a push pull pot, splitting the humbuckers.
There are days when playing your own guitar feels very rewarding. It's hard. It's difficult. Especially when your new processes don't work with old parts! Regardless. it is a LOT of fun when it works out.
Both guitars are finished in a super-thin skin matte nitro, both have flamed maple binding around the board, and have a beveled clearcoat body edge.



Last few months, I worked (I'm not gonna say hard) at these two. I'm so glad to finally have reached a point in my life, my career, that I can make something with my hands that my mind sees.
It was not easy, I'll be honest. The necks were never made to fit these guitars so I had to make a few custom templates for the neck pocket, muck around a it with the neck pocket templates and angles, but in the end, we got there.
Because the necks are simply rebooted, by virtue of new binding, new frets, and a new neckshape, these guitars are what I call, part of my Rebooted Ash series.
The Tele is very close to a 'real' tele, but with a glued in neck with a 24.75'' scale 22 fretboard, and an easy access heel and neck joint. Just to make the body a bit more sleek. The F-hole is largely esthetic. The body is 2 piece quartersawn ash, and the pickups are custom pickups by Johan Lundgren, based on the M6 series. These pickups have a lot of attack, akin to an axe. Extremely unapologetic, hot, tight, crunchy, and syrupy without ever getting fat.
The SuperStrat features the same body, but now with a Hipshot US Contour trem instead of a Floyd Rose. The neck is a 25.5'' scale 24 fretter, and this axe sounds way snappier, brighter, tighter. The pickups...
Man. The pickups. I should have bought these YEARS ago. They're just bog-standard EVO's! Middle pickup is an EVO middle pickup too, by the way. I never thought I'd love the EVO's but I do. The neck pickup is fluid, clear, clean, and a bit bright so you can fatten it up with the tonepot. The bridge pickup is precise, every even EQ, and crunches with rhythm, but sings and flows with leads. Very, very happy with that. The toggle engages the middle pickup to all 5way settings. It drops the output with approximately 6dB, and adds a ton of high end. Then there's also a push pull pot, splitting the humbuckers.
There are days when playing your own guitar feels very rewarding. It's hard. It's difficult. Especially when your new processes don't work with old parts! Regardless. it is a LOT of fun when it works out.
Both guitars are finished in a super-thin skin matte nitro, both have flamed maple binding around the board, and have a beveled clearcoat body edge.




