Orpheo Guitars Tele Thinline Deluxe

[orpheo]

A guitar I have wanted to own, and now just make: a tele with a deluxe PG, widerange buckers AND thinline. And binding. And split block MoP/Abalone inlay. And exotic multlam neck.

OK, enough talk:

Some specs.
*Figured walnut top.
*Flamed ash back
*Sycamore pickguard
*Ziricote/purpleheart/maple neck
*Macassar ebony fretboard w. Maple binding
*25.5" scale, 10"-14" conical radius, 22 frets
*Pearl/Abalone split block inlay
*Mojo pickups Widerange Humbuckers
*Hipshot bridge and tuners

 

[Hsb]

Re: Orpheo Guitars Tele Thinline Deluxe

Beautiful guitar sir, you make some really great looking instruments.

 

[ehdwuld]

Re: Orpheo Guitars Tele Thinline Deluxe

Mmm I'm likeing that

 

[Boogie Bill]

Re: Orpheo Guitars Tele Thinline Deluxe

Beautiful!

Bill

 

[TVFV]

Re: Orpheo Guitars Tele Thinline Deluxe

Just... I mean... Damn...

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[GuitarDoc]

Re: Orpheo Guitars Tele Thinline Deluxe

Binding?

Nice work, as usual.

 

[Dave Locher]

Re: Orpheo Guitars Tele Thinline Deluxe

Binding?

On the neck.

How do you like the sound of the walnut? I bought some a couple years ago thinking it would sound similar to mahogany, but then read it sounds more like maple and never used it even though I love the way it looks.

 

[orpheo]

Re: Orpheo Guitars Tele Thinline Deluxe

On the neck.

How do you like the sound of the walnut? I bought some a couple years ago thinking it would sound similar to mahogany, but then read it sounds more like maple and never used it even though I love the way it looks.

Yup, the fretboard is bound in maple.

Walnut is a weird wood. It has a bit of the warmth of mahogany, a bit of brightness of maple. I tend to use it in guitars that feature a very hard back, like this one (ash), to get a bit more warmth and emphasise the wood-y character of the hollowbody. Or, on black korina to make it a really, really warm sounding guitar with just enough bite in the top end.

 

[JOLLY]

Re: Orpheo Guitars Tele Thinline Deluxe

That might be the best looking piece of ash that I've ever seen on a guitar.

 

[orpheo]

Re: Orpheo Guitars Tele Thinline Deluxe

That might be the best looking piece of ash that I've ever seen on a guitar.

I have had three more like this and my wood supplier has sold me almost all of them. No more, helas. Ash of this quality is unfortunately very hard to find, or so I've been told. And yes it's truly ash: the smell told me so. And the tone too.

To be honest, I find ash to be one of the best body woods around. I've build four guitars with all the same parts, only the back was different. maple top, ebony board, rosewood neck. Backs were real mahogany, ash, white limba and sapele. Ash sounded the best, hands down. Sapele came in a close second and mahogany and white limba were tied for third place. But that's just how I want my LP's to sound like: open, clear, a bit on the bright side (original fifty LP's were also fairly bright) but with a bit of warmth and tightness in the low end. Sapele is a bit warmer and less aggressive than ash and mahogany and limba sounded the 'sweetest'. Warm, more roar than scream.