OK, a proper thread on this (picking up from the 'scratchplate' thread)
I decided to do a Tele, although I've never been a Tele person I fancied giving one a go for a while.
All leg-pulling aside, having never been that in to them I haven't got strong attachments to having many aspects 'correct' so it was never going to be a classic Blackguard project ;-)
In particular I want body contours :-) And to that end I am having a body made - so far it looks like this:
It's getting a 2-tone burst finish which is taking a while so in the meantime I picked this up off ebay to be going on with:
The neck is a Warmoth that I think I bought via here (well, MR forum anyway) - fairly standard Warmoth spec so it may or may not last as I usually prefer something with a meatier profile or big frets (or both)
Pickups are Oil City (thank you Mr Weasel :-) ) and are an unusual set (I think) - it's the Honkey-Tonk Angel neck pickup, and then the bridge is based on the Honky-Tonk Angel but wound like the Diesel Tap with push/pull for 9k/6k outputs (I think that's right from memory)
Such dabbles as I have had with Teles left me with the impression (literally) that the bridge is a bit uncomfy, so I decided to go with a nice modern 6-saddle Gotoh.
Jack is an Electrosocket.
I keep forgetting to buy bits so had to steal screws and strap buttons from other guitars in the house
So far it looks like this:
I'd do more tonight but I don't have any string ferrules (doh)
Red ones are better.
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Your protorype pickup was the original that finally morphed into the Oil City 'Wapping Wharf' Tele bridge ... that will be available shortly on my site. What pots have you got? You definitely need 250ks rather than 500s for that beastie
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When it's all sorted and set up right I'll record a demo of the pickups for you
Curious exactly which gotoh bridge you used as I had trouble finding a six saddle tele bridge to fit a guitar-build body.
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