So, after years of combatting the pressure, I caved. I started to fall deep 'n hard for the venerable Tele. Who's tele's (sounds) I like?
Brad Paisley
Jeff Beck
Ronnie Wood
OK, perhaps Roy Buchanan too, but mostly those three. So, I started off to make my own. I didn't wanna go the usual paisley route, so I came up with a way to make a transparent paisley. Only in one color, though. but all things considering I think this came out pretty cool.
The specs:
swamp ash body
figured maple top
4A flamed maple neck
olivewood fretboard, 25.5'' scale, 22 frets, 10''-14'' conical radius
Hipshot bridge and tuners
Bone nut
JB/Jazz set (standard, not modded, yet)
custom wiring.
I've got the wiring set up with a master volume, master tone and the following under the 5 way:
bridge full
both in parallel, in phase, each split
both in parallel, in phase, each full
both in parallel, out of phase, each full
neck full
These five tones are amazingly useful. The tonepot works a magic charm with that fourth setting, it is one of my favorite tones ever. It's a bit thinner, sure, but it's not nearly as wonky as I'm used to on most guitars.
All materials were rejected as 'first choice' materials for one reason or another (fretboard had fret slots that weren't deep enough so I used a CNC to precisely route the slots deeper, neck blank wasn't wide enough for a regular strat or tele neck nor was it long enough for a glued in neck so I glued a little wing to the headstock near the lower E tuner, the top had worm holes and the swamp ash back had going against it that it was swamp ash and I prefer regular ash, but hey... got it a huge discount exactly for these kinds of projects). That explains the weird part at the bottom of the top. Those were worm holes I wasn't able to fill entirely and I just let it be. The finish is really, really thin by the way. Approximately 0.05mm (2 mills).
Hope you like it. For a first tele, I do like this and I really enjoy playing this guitar
Brad Paisley
Jeff Beck
Ronnie Wood
OK, perhaps Roy Buchanan too, but mostly those three. So, I started off to make my own. I didn't wanna go the usual paisley route, so I came up with a way to make a transparent paisley. Only in one color, though. but all things considering I think this came out pretty cool.
The specs:
swamp ash body
figured maple top
4A flamed maple neck
olivewood fretboard, 25.5'' scale, 22 frets, 10''-14'' conical radius
Hipshot bridge and tuners
Bone nut
JB/Jazz set (standard, not modded, yet)
custom wiring.
I've got the wiring set up with a master volume, master tone and the following under the 5 way:
bridge full
both in parallel, in phase, each split
both in parallel, in phase, each full
both in parallel, out of phase, each full
neck full
These five tones are amazingly useful. The tonepot works a magic charm with that fourth setting, it is one of my favorite tones ever. It's a bit thinner, sure, but it's not nearly as wonky as I'm used to on most guitars.
All materials were rejected as 'first choice' materials for one reason or another (fretboard had fret slots that weren't deep enough so I used a CNC to precisely route the slots deeper, neck blank wasn't wide enough for a regular strat or tele neck nor was it long enough for a glued in neck so I glued a little wing to the headstock near the lower E tuner, the top had worm holes and the swamp ash back had going against it that it was swamp ash and I prefer regular ash, but hey... got it a huge discount exactly for these kinds of projects). That explains the weird part at the bottom of the top. Those were worm holes I wasn't able to fill entirely and I just let it be. The finish is really, really thin by the way. Approximately 0.05mm (2 mills).
Hope you like it. For a first tele, I do like this and I really enjoy playing this guitar
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