Thoughts on my Tele

[jeremy]

Re: Thoughts on my Tele

id go clear before id put a wood guard on it

 

[Rand-O-Monium]

Re: Thoughts on my Tele

Broken Toothpicks

 

[dukebox]

Re: Thoughts on my Tele

I think screws with no pick guard looks fine. The screws and screw holes are part of the Tele, even if the pick guard is on vacation.

 

[ItsaBass]

Re: Thoughts on my Tele

The body really needs a guard to define and punctuate its lines, and tie all the components together in an aesthetically pleasing manner. Without the guard, it just looks like an ill-defined blob with a collection of parts screwed to it.

 

[SirJackdeFuzz]

Re: Thoughts on my Tele

So yesterday I was pondering about the guitar. I have though on a couple of occasions that if I'd realised quickly enough what my mate was building for me, I'd have suggested that it was put together with no scratchplate at all. I removed the plate yesterday, and now it looks like this...
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I've put the pickguard screws in to just fill the holes for now. You may also be able to see that there are 2 addition holes on the lower bout where the first one was misaligned.

I'm not sure what to do now. I quite like the bare wood look, but have the old holes to deal with. Should I just keep the screws in, or try and fill them? Should I maybe try and make a feature of them?

What do you reckon fellas?

I like it like this !

 

[Simon_F]

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I really like this look. Though I can't see from the angle of the picture how bad the misalignment is on the lower side.

 

[rgand]

Re: Thoughts on my Tele

I like it with the tortoise pickguard. Plain is too, well, plain. I generally don't like this kind of thing, but that guitar would look good with a hand tooled leather pickguard on it. Not this one, but something like it: