NGD : : : : Tele ! !

T ROCKER

T ROCKER

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I tried in vain to sell my Diamond Memory Lane 2 delay for a couple of months, so I could scrape enough bread together to buy an ash tele kit from Precision Guitar Kits, when a fellow offered up this Tele as a trade. I jumped on it and I'm glad I did. It's a homemade body , carved from a very nice swamp ash blank, with a very decent Mighty Mite neck (one piece with 22 frets, the magic number) Fender USA pickups with the cover swapped out on the neck pickup for an open one, which exposes the poles and makes it sound damn fine indeed - same twang, but more testicles !
Not usually a fan of gold hardware, but on this guitar it somehow works . . guitar.jpgfront.jpgback.jpg
 
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I really like the way that looks. A nice twist on a traditional Tele. Congrats!
 
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Very nice looking axe. ... I have been GASing for a tele for a while now. Its ironic, I never used to look at teles until about 2 years back.
 
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Congrats!

I prefer an opaque pickguard, but that's just me. You could always rattle-can the underside of yours if you decide to; I did that with a DeArmond that had a clear pickguard, and it looked great. Perfect gloss, and you can't scratch the paint since it's on the underside.

Win-win.
 
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The pickguard is really growing on me ... There's that set of stripes between the pickups, then the 'beam' shooting out from the control plate, neither of which I can bring myself to cover up. The transparent control plate ? Still undecided . . . I might try your suggestion for that since I definitely think there's enough gold on that guitar. There is so much awesome grain that it's no surprise that pickguard was put on it. The body itself is finished with tung oil, with no grain filler . It feels like a proper piece of wood. If I go for an opaque pickguard it'll probably be one of those foxy wood ones, like zebra wood.
 
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Amazing looking guitar! Now if it were mine, I'd get a dark stain, like something black, or brown, and stain the whole body except for under the pickguard. So you still see the grain of the wood, but get a nice contrast between the dark body, and the light pickguard. Plus a black stain would look sweet with the gold hardware. But that's just me.
 
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