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Thank you for putting in an image of the build so far EG. Obviously you are a proper guitar builder because you are making it from scratch, whereas I am basically just going to be assembling from parts (for me that's ambitious enough
Originally Posted by Elias Graves
I'm building one now. The body is black walnut, the neck will be all maple.
The setup is old skool tele. Ashtray three saddle bridge, Fender original vintage tele pickups, etc.
The upside is you can get exactly what you want.
The downside is, you'll never get your money back if you sell. Hopefully, this one's a keeper.
EG
), plus the electronics, and I may manage some fret dress work I guess. The trouble with selling any instrument I find, is that however glowingly you describe it, the potential buyer will always sceptically ask, "if it's so good, why don't you want it?" - I know, I do that myself when looking at ads. And of course it is even harder if you are selling a no-name partscaster I agree.
I hope you and I both get a keepers though, yours looks to be coming along nicely, and please post some more pics when you finish, cheers!
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07-08-2011 01:34 PM
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I know some folks who found great playing and feeling Squiers and upgraded to the hardware and pickups of their choice and they were still very econimical projects.
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Cheers kromezone - I am starting to firm up my mental list of parts now, and it looks like a Wilkinson bridge is on there. Originally Posted by kromezone
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I'm sure that's true CG, and worth considering. For me though, I think I want the adventure of doing the whole assembly from scratch - I'm happy to admit that half the reason for my doing this is the fun involved in making the guitar, though of course I hope it will be a good player when complete. Originally Posted by cosmic gumbo
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If you haven't already found it, this site might be of interest:
Warmoth Custom Guitar Parts - Custom bass and guitar bodies, necks, pickups, pickguards and hardware
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I built my "Frankenstein Tele" with a great all Rosewood neck from Warmouth, A great "Joe Barden" neck Pickup and a host of used Parts from Ebay. It has a great jazz tone and is real easy to play (good setup) I use it primarily as a backup for gigs where I would prefer not to use my archtop. I think my total cost (not counting my labor) was close to $650.00.
wiz
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partscasters are where its at. i have a Nash, V boatneck, lollar 52s...sounds great for pretty much anything i throw at it. the only thing i wish is that i didnt have to take the neck off to adjust the action. i would recommend getting a fatty neck though, but with the truss rod hole on the headstock...
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Already been there, cheers tonedeaf - and they do lovely stuff, plus a very nice site to use and ponder what you want. Have decided that the cost plus import duty and VAT will put things too high for me though, so going with UK sourced parts in the end, plus I think it's good for me to support a UK company really. Originally Posted by tonedeaf
Thanks wiz, your tele sounds just great. I've looked with interest at the Barden pickups, but they are very expensive over here. Will probably go for something else to start with at least, but I don't rule out upgrading to something like the Barden at a later stage. A lot of guitar for the money you spent by the sounds of it though. Originally Posted by wizard3739
Not sure about the fat neck - I don't have very long fingers! but I take your point about the headstock truss adjustment, I thought about this issue somewhat, and there is a possible neck I could buy which has this feature, plus a nice 9.5" radius and extra 22nd fret, not that I need that, but still good to have it. Having to take the neck off to adjust the truss must be a bit of a pain when I think about it, so I'm glad you have made the point. Your guitar sound terrific though, hope mine will be as good, cheers! Originally Posted by mattymel
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Wiz,
I have a Mike Stern Yamaha 1511MS. Great guitar. I decided to put a Barden in the bridge position. But my guitar guy said "It would be really great to put a Barden Two Tone in the neck position as well"
He just completed it, but I haven't picked it up yet. Very curious which Barden pickup you put in.
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Well, as I said above, I can't quite stretch to Barden pickups initially, so will be trying a different setup. I can say I'm going ahead with the build - for UK members, I can recommend Guitarbuild.co.uk who are going to make a body to my specs in swamp ash. They get full marks from me for helpfulness, and caring about getting all the details just right. I'm going for a pickup layout similar to the Nashville Tele, with a middle strat pickup, but without a pickguard, and internal channels for the pickup wires. I'm using small mounting rings to mount the pickups to the body. Pickups will probably be a Tonerider Hot Classics set, plus a suitable strat pickup for the middle. The control system will allow all 7 possible pickup combinations (the combined neck/middle, and neck/bridge combinations will be humbucking). Originally Posted by Jazzandmore
But I know the Bardens are great pickups - probably in the future I will upgrade when funds allow!
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Meggy,
Looks like our signals got crossed. I saw that Wizard had responded to you on the 9th saying he had a Joe Barden pickup in his tele. So I was posting the message asking him which Barden pickup he had in. I did see from your previous that the Barden's weren't in your plans right now.
Looks like you've already got a great plan for getting a very nice tele built.
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My mistake - looking again I can clearly see you addressed your previous post to wiz. Good luck with those Bardens in your guitar though, should be quite an axe! Originally Posted by Jazzandmore
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