Saving a Lost Cause - Tele Project

robinbowes

OilCityPickups said:

I've always rather liked the 8210

Fancy making me some pickups for it?

R.

HarrySeven

Still very much a work in progress, but...

http://i.imgur.com/0XTElzr.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/4ro0Fdu.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/zmgH8kD.jpg

tbc

Good work.

Any plans for the screw holes in the body?

ICBM

You've put the control plate on backwards. Easy mistake, as the screw holes line up both ways.

MLten80

great improvement 
 looks kinda cool now
  does it play ok?

paulnb57

Good save on the Tele H!

HarrySeven

ICBM said:

You've put the control plate on backwards. Easy mistake, as the screw holes line up both ways.

Lol! Nope - that’s the way I like Teles! 

HarrySeven

MLten80 said:

great improvement 
 looks kinda cool now
  does it play ok?

Early signs suggest yes!

HarrySeven

tbc said:

Good work.

Any plans for the screw holes in the body?

Possibly not, as I quite like a bit of patination.

(notice I didn’t say relic-ing!)

BeardyAndy

ICBM said:

You've put the control plate on backwards. Easy mistake, as the screw holes line up both ways.

Unless like me you keep catching the selector switch so put it that way round to get it out the bloody way!

Funkfingers

BeardyAndy said:

ICBM said:

You've put the control plate on backwards.

Unless, like me, you keep catching the selector switch so put it that way round to get it out the bloody way!

Somebody ought to conduct a survey into strumming hand excursion. Perhaps, there is a way to recycle some of that wasted energy?

ICBM

BeardyAndy said:

Unless like me you keep catching the selector switch so put it that way round to get it out the bloody way!

And then just keep hitting the volume knob instead...

BeardyAndy

Funkfingers said:

BeardyAndy said:

ICBM said:

You've put the control plate on backwards.

Unless, like me, you keep catching the selector switch so put it that way round to get it out the bloody way!

Somebody ought to conduct a survey into strumming hand excursion. Perhaps, there is a way to recycle some of that wasted energy?

Are you calling me a wan**r.....? 

HarrySeven

The latest addition...

http://i.imgur.com/7HC1BSL.jpg

Although the asymmetrical placement of the strap button is now making my OCD twitchy.  

Until I restring it, I’ve just locked the Bigsby off with a cable tie.

Funkfingers

Surely, the selector switch will get in the way of the vibrato arm? :-p

HarrySeven

Funkfingers said:

Surely, the selector switch will get in the way of the vibrato arm? :-p

Not when strung up - It’ll clear the controls (I think!)

If not, brute force will be applied - either bend the arm upward slightly or assess which controls I don’t want (most of them - the tone control can go for a start) and/or swap the plate back round.

Funkfingers

HarrySeven said:

strung up

Now, there’s an idea.

Kittyfrisk

Looking good. Won't you need to make cut-outs in the back edge of the bridge plate?

HarrySeven

Kittyfrisk said:

Looking good. Won't you need to make cut-outs in the back edge of the bridge plate?

Yup. Dremel time!

HarrySeven

http://i.imgur.com/wyi0JL1.jpg