Does anyone make a Telecaster swimming pool route body?

rze99

Does anyone make a Telecaster swimming pool route body, finished or unfinished? Or have one available? thanks

SteveRobinson

It's easy enough to convert one

Funkfingers

Fender does TSH routed bodies on some "modern" American models.

Some MIM "Nashville" models had a square cavity under the pickguard.

Speaking of which, a replica "Smuggler's Tele" body will already lack most of the wood you want removed.

SteveRobinson

Funkfingers said:

Speaking of which, a replica "Smuggler's Tele" body will already lack most of the wood you want removed.

Was it @WezV who restored/made a smugglers' Tele?

rze99

Yeah a smuggler body would do it.. I'm not a wood worker. I want to put a midboost circuit under the guard s would carve out most of the pick guard area

rze99

https://rs-guitarworks.myshopify.com/products/raw-smuggler-tele-body

rze99

Like that and just remove the inner walls

rze99

SteveRobinson said:

Funkfingers said:

Speaking of which, a replica "Smuggler's Tele" body will already lack most of the wood you want removed.

Was it @WezV who restored/made a smugglers' Tele?

Yes. Found it.

https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/214334/can-anyone-here-do-a-smuggler-mod-to-my-tele

In the thread @GSPBASSES ; says they do them....

Funkfingers

The Fender Clapton mid boost uses a PCB roughly the size of a credit/debit card. 

The old Seymour Duncan "Prototype EQ" from the Eighties has a PCB half that size. 

The EMG-SPC and -VMC accessories have a PCB only slightly larger than the pot(s) that control them.

Something that compact could be installed either near the cutaway - like a Gretsch master volume control - or in the Andy Summers position, above the standard control plate.

rze99

@Funkfingers ;
It is the Fender one.. I already have the electrics ....just need the body

Funkfingers

At this point, my thoughts turn to the white Telecaster, belonging to Frank Zappa and played by Ray White on the "Does Humor Belong In Music?" concert video. This has three pots crammed into the control plate. (Small, hard-wired EMG ones.)

It should be possible to mount the mid booster pot on the control plate and run long cables to the PCB in the lower smuggling cavity.

Alternatively, use a roller pot and mount it at the upper edge of the pickguard à la Jazzmaster/Jaguar.

rze99

Yes it's the Active mid boost with concentric tone knob

WezV

Yeah, I did the smuggler resto and have also done swimming pool routes on teles.

It's an easy mod to an existing body