Elias Graves
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My father in law gave me some lumber.
I made a deal with a local builder to do some work in exchange for a couple of guitars. Here's the first...it's a tele made from american black walnut. It has a maple neck with 9 1/2" radius and a set of Fender original vintage tele pickups in it. Standrd three way switch.
My kid has always wanted a tele somewhere in the neighborhood of surf green, so Tony made the body out of scraps, essentially. It's 4 pieces and they're kinda ugly in person, so the world isn't losing a great piece of figured wood by painting it. We had Tony build the guitar, but leave it bare. My son and I will take it apart and do the finish work ourselves. First up...grain filler.
Anyway, here are a couple quick shots from last night. I'll do some better ones shortly.
My kid giving it the workout last night.
As for the guitar...it's damn good. I'd take it over the last american standard I tried out. The Fender vintage pups sound just like a tele should sound. The range of tones is quite impressive from jazzy to twangy to all out RAWK. Easily a guitar you could do a whole set with. I'd definitely recommend Tony to anybody looking for a T. He doesn't charge a fortune to do it, either.
We'll do pics of the finish process if anyone is interested.
EG
I made a deal with a local builder to do some work in exchange for a couple of guitars. Here's the first...it's a tele made from american black walnut. It has a maple neck with 9 1/2" radius and a set of Fender original vintage tele pickups in it. Standrd three way switch.
My kid has always wanted a tele somewhere in the neighborhood of surf green, so Tony made the body out of scraps, essentially. It's 4 pieces and they're kinda ugly in person, so the world isn't losing a great piece of figured wood by painting it. We had Tony build the guitar, but leave it bare. My son and I will take it apart and do the finish work ourselves. First up...grain filler.
Anyway, here are a couple quick shots from last night. I'll do some better ones shortly.
My kid giving it the workout last night.
As for the guitar...it's damn good. I'd take it over the last american standard I tried out. The Fender vintage pups sound just like a tele should sound. The range of tones is quite impressive from jazzy to twangy to all out RAWK. Easily a guitar you could do a whole set with. I'd definitely recommend Tony to anybody looking for a T. He doesn't charge a fortune to do it, either.
We'll do pics of the finish process if anyone is interested.
EG
