Recent content by telecutie

I ain't putting no poly on no pau ferro! "That's a joke son.  You're built too close to the ground... The fast ones keep going right over your head." --Foghorn Leghorn

Here are your options moving fwd: Shake the hardware in a box of gravel, throw on a mint green pick guard, and call it a relic.  Don't become irate when it falls over, and don't fear exposure to cigarette smoke and spilled beer.  Freely swing it like Keef at stage on-rushers.  Relax... Everyone...

Thanks for the education fellas.

UH MUH GUH!  Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I think this post was intentionally created to 'stir the pot'.  I'd like to respond to a few of the assertions, but I haven't the time.... I'm smack in the middle of applying the third coat of wipe-on poly to some pau ferro. PS-- I think the...

Please 'splain to me about a tapped single coil pickup (thought this only applied to humbuckers?)... What? Why? How? I want to retain as much of a trad tele sound in the bridge as possible.  I appreciate the expertise! Side note-- I'm now a Jr Member... Woohoo!  Do I get a merit badge or lapel pin?

She didn't just buy him a guitar... As he stated in his first post, "Everything about this telecaster is perfect, and exactly what I had always envisioned for a telecaster project". Three years later:  No finished dream tele and no girlfriend.  I'm drawing parallel conclusions rapfohl!  I'm not...

Many dyes can be mixed with either water or alcohol... mix batches of both and test them side-by-side.  You can see the effects of water vs alcohol delivery using the same dye on the same wood. I will suggest that unless you're using multiple colors to create depth and a textured look, you...

Building a tele with P90 neck, and I'm soliciting opinions for which tele single coil bridge pairs appropriately.  Will use a SD vintage or similar P90.  I'm considering the SD Quarter-Pound tele bridge, as it appears capable of keeping up with a P90 neck... Any thoughts?  Please explain the...

That's how I read greywolf's recommendation.  Although shellac seals the surface, my concern would be that dye penetrates the wood deeply, and could possibly spread throughout the wood grain pores underneath the shellac... especially if you use a water-based dye, which dries more slowly than...

Chatoyance?  Dang... It is a great method to finish flame and quilt maple, especially using two varying, but complimentary colors of aniline dyes.  Mix the dyes with alcohol for quick drying times.  Apply a darker colored dye first.  The different pore sizes in the flame/quilt will absorb...

beeswax-- good move.  Once you've applied a hard finish, like TO, penetrating oils can't be absorbed into the wood-- You'd just be smearing oil around on the outter finish. You want to give attention to the hard finish, not the wood itself-- that means polishing and protecting.

What you're seeing is one reason I like to begin natural finishes with boiled linseed oil--BLO.  BLO is a penetrating oil. It gives definition and provides depth to the natural wood grain (there are alternative oils to BLO, but it's my preference). Apply BLO until the wood stops absorbing it. ...

"Black... Always a good color."

The solid fix, but perhaps less aesthetically pleasing, is a pickguard.

I know... caps=.022 orange drop on middle/neck control, .015 on bridge.