So....well...
You know that feeling that you HAVE to get something done? I have 8 models right now and I felt it was good, it was completed. Didn't need something extra. Then, I learned about Rod Stewart's music and later Brad Paisley and the itch for a tele started growing. I tried to combat that feeling but I had to submit, so I started planning the first few tele's earlier this year and now, I've got 4 tele's in the books (works).
* Yes, I know that tele's aren't associated with Rod Stewart at first, but he did play with Jeff Beck, he did play with Steve Cropper, and those dudes did play a tele; my favorite guitar tones are all of his old albums but Atlantic Crossing is one of my favorites! *
The first I should've done is a 52 style blackguard but I had so much junk left that I had to get rid of, I decided to do something more.... me. I wanted a roasted ash body and roasted flamed maple neck for the 52 but I can't afford that right now, so I used a piece of 5A flamed maple cut in the 50ies that I had left for the neck, got me a 4mm maple top on a 40mm swamp ash back that I had left. and started working. In 3 days I went from bare woods to.... this.
The fretboard is Greek olivewood because I had it still laying around.
This piece of flamed maple was a gift, part of an entire batch. it was cut in the late 50ies early 60ies at best because the lumber yard who stamped these pieces ceased operation in the early 60ies. I made four necks and one body out of the billets I had. The body wasn't by choice perse but the pieces were shaped so irregularly and more importantly, weren't long enough for a neck, that I decided to make them into a body. The red BCRich Bich I may or may not have posted before, is 100% old growth materials. Sounds like a pissed off LP. Weighs about as much too
With this build, I caved three times: light fretboard, inlay, T-style. oops. I never wanted to do that but I veered away so far from what I initially wanted to do that I thought, well, let's do it anyway, why not.
I will add a jb/jazz set, gold hardware (hipshot bridge) and a gold plated or brass control plate. I also finished the back in this paisley finish to match the entire thing. I like how the finish is semitranslucent so you can see the figure through the finish! it's actually quite cool IRL and I can't wait to get this finished.
I'll use a 2K polyurethane sprayed porefill because of how this finish had to be applied. I'll sand that flush and then finish it off in nitro, so the entire finish is around 8mils.
If Jeff Beck and Brad Paisley had a tele together, this would be it I believe.
You know that feeling that you HAVE to get something done? I have 8 models right now and I felt it was good, it was completed. Didn't need something extra. Then, I learned about Rod Stewart's music and later Brad Paisley and the itch for a tele started growing. I tried to combat that feeling but I had to submit, so I started planning the first few tele's earlier this year and now, I've got 4 tele's in the books (works).
* Yes, I know that tele's aren't associated with Rod Stewart at first, but he did play with Jeff Beck, he did play with Steve Cropper, and those dudes did play a tele; my favorite guitar tones are all of his old albums but Atlantic Crossing is one of my favorites! *
The first I should've done is a 52 style blackguard but I had so much junk left that I had to get rid of, I decided to do something more.... me. I wanted a roasted ash body and roasted flamed maple neck for the 52 but I can't afford that right now, so I used a piece of 5A flamed maple cut in the 50ies that I had left for the neck, got me a 4mm maple top on a 40mm swamp ash back that I had left. and started working. In 3 days I went from bare woods to.... this.
The fretboard is Greek olivewood because I had it still laying around.
This piece of flamed maple was a gift, part of an entire batch. it was cut in the late 50ies early 60ies at best because the lumber yard who stamped these pieces ceased operation in the early 60ies. I made four necks and one body out of the billets I had. The body wasn't by choice perse but the pieces were shaped so irregularly and more importantly, weren't long enough for a neck, that I decided to make them into a body. The red BCRich Bich I may or may not have posted before, is 100% old growth materials. Sounds like a pissed off LP. Weighs about as much too
With this build, I caved three times: light fretboard, inlay, T-style. oops. I never wanted to do that but I veered away so far from what I initially wanted to do that I thought, well, let's do it anyway, why not.
I will add a jb/jazz set, gold hardware (hipshot bridge) and a gold plated or brass control plate. I also finished the back in this paisley finish to match the entire thing. I like how the finish is semitranslucent so you can see the figure through the finish! it's actually quite cool IRL and I can't wait to get this finished.
I'll use a 2K polyurethane sprayed porefill because of how this finish had to be applied. I'll sand that flush and then finish it off in nitro, so the entire finish is around 8mils.
If Jeff Beck and Brad Paisley had a tele together, this would be it I believe.
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