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It's a basswood body with a quilt maple lam top with the Natural Masked Edges option, finished in black dye with off-menu candy red back. More pics and description 👉 here👈

My favorite changes from day to day, too. But I'm pretty sure the guitar I picked up the most in the last 12 months, by far, would be my 7/8 with the '78: Plays great, sounds great, locks great (yes it has S-Locks and those are indeed locking great, but I meant to write ->) looks great...

My favorite parts supplier also has something like this, called the "Twangfinger". They even have a demo on YouTube:

Yeah, well, that's exactly what I had I mind when I build it! I was very inspired by the famous ancient greek depictions of Minotaurs relentlessly hunting potatoes through labyrinths, as found on countless temples. Instead of posting pictures, I will just link to the guitar and you don't click...

Well, I would, dearest Spud, but... I don't wanna make you cry again! And since blue shell pickguard material seems to be the stuff of nightmares for the Spud, I'm afraid that's what would happen, if I posted my Teilecaster again! 😔

I'm not an expert, but the headstock shape doesn't look like Warmoths. As to the finish, I agree with Rick, I wouldn't sand it either. It sounds like the discolouration is from different exposure to UV-light and in that case will fade on it's own.

In my experience drilling out the threads isn't even necessary, if you use said tele pickup woodscrews. The only bad experience I had with these was with my purpleheart body: While I stayed relatively cool, a screw completely lost it's head... and it was very difficult to get it out of the wood...

Looking good! :)

I was gonna throw the "universal" pickup rout in the ring, assuming it's about a Telecaster body, but you didn't specify which body you're thinking about. So, which body are you thinking about? 😅 If it's a Telecaster, I'd go with the universal neck pickup rout as it's designed to fit most...

Did you ask Warmoth if they can do a roasted maple top off-menu?

Who doesn't? D'you think you're special? Good, because you are, Spud. You are, indeed!

I'm always reading this as "awry"... 😅 This!

😦 I don't know what to say! I'm sorry? Can I be sorry and flattered at the same time? "I am sorry, but I am flattered!" I didn't know I was that influential! Strangly enough; I still think that Mustang is a very strange little guitar and I still have to find its purpose.

I always considered the Jazzmaster the least attractive of Fenders offset models, but I think that's mainly because of the name. 😅 Mustang, Jaguar... those are cool names, but Jazzmaster?

Good looking guitar! Nice to see some split diamond inlays in the wild, since I just ordered a neck with some. :) I'm sorry for your bad experiences with wood mounting pickups, the only trouble I ever had with it was because of that purpleheart... that wood is just mean! I don't even see any...