a Floyd TELE build

[stratamania]

An interesting idea Mr Hendrix. Did you also use an Acrylic varnish to seal the pores of the Acrylic paint ?

 

[Hendrix]

I use acrylic varnish mix with acrylic color , so it is semitransparency , can show the wood grain even with thick coating .

I have put body in drying cabinet for 2 weeks to made it as dry as possible before paint it.

 

[stratamania]

Thanks, those paints are available also in varying degrees of opacity I noticed. But even when dry has open pores, so the Acrylic varnish acts as a seal, which is why I asked. I would think the varnish mix will do a similar job or a varnish coat to finish is also an option.

Look forward to seeing the rest of the build.

 

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

That's one of the nicest contemporary Tele builds I've seen since Rob Rounds' "Blue Jean" tele.

DBU will be proud that you stuck a Floyd in it too! :headbang:

Stellar fretwork I might add! ccasion14:

 

[Hendrix]

to made flat jack cup perfect fit with telecaster body , some delicate bevel edge on the jeck hole, need to be cut by electric rotary .

some gap on the side without bevel edge .

mark the line

rough bevel edges grinding

sealing the exposed wood

jack cup perfect fit with telecaster body

 

[Axl12]

Loving you're attention to detail  :icon_smile:

 

[stubhead]

Whoowee! Abner, I think thar's a revolooshunerry messin' wit our Telee-caster....

I don't know how much internet poking around you've done, but one of the oldest, most respectable and really, quite a ducky place of sorts is "TDPRI", the... Telecaster.. Discussion... People? Really... Interested? Actually, I don't know what the heck all those letters stand for, and apparently, neither do they. But they do have a subset of people who can very seriously discuss just how "real" a real Telecaster is, and how with the right aged, improved vintage, even-more-realer-than-real parts from Rutter & Callaham & Barden etc. you can make a guitar exactly like Leo Fender would have, had he only been as cool as they.... I'd bet they'd get a real "bang" outta that babe! Whoowee! Activate force-fields & flame-shields prior to posting....

http://www.tdpri.com/forum/index.php

on the other hand, malcontents and the lunatic fringe from four* continents mumble, stumble, burble & lurch about rather freely here....

*(make that FIVE now, if we don't scare you away... or vice-versa! )

 

[Jumble Jumble]

Can't be 100% sure, but I think it was called TDP, Telecaster Discussion Page, and then the site went bang. When it was brought back it wasn't the original any more, but a reissue - hence RI.

 

[Hendrix]

I already said " it a kind of Tom Anderson/ Suhr tele I want to build . " . is TA/  Suhr need to build "real Tele " ? it not anything new.

fender.com has 106 guitar list under telecaste page , which on is more real ? :guitarplayer2:


I also got this one too , it also not real :

 

[Jumble Jumble]

Who are you talking to?

 

[stubhead]

I'm not sure which one of my "Tele's" counts as LEAST real.... :hello2:



The one with the scalloped fingerboard and the Lawrence L500XL fire-breathing dragon pickup, the... umm... little one, or the tin-can one, which is, notably, the only one with a "real" Fender body.... in the land of TDPRI and the Steel Guitar Forum, these are known as "tele-shaped".... :toothy12:

 

[Jumble Jumble]

As far as I'm concerned, Teles are like art: if someone says it's a Tele, it's a Tele.

 

[Cagey]

As far as I'm concerned, Teles are like art: if someone says it's a Tele, it's a Tele.

Hehe! That's me, too. But, I'm sorta forced to that attitude as none of my Teles would qualify as Teles if conformity was any criteria, even though Fender has 100 bajillion models.

 

[Jumble Jumble]

It's the silhouette of the body really, I guess. Any non-trivial departure from that means that nobody would ever identify it as a Tele. For example:

You can see that it's got Tele influences, but I don't think anyone would argue that it's still a Tele at this point.

 

[Jumble Jumble]

Hendrix, are you going to glue the neck?

 

[Hendrix]

Hendrix, are you going to glue the neck?

not for this one ,  it not much help on Ash body .

 

[mkibanez]

Wow will be awsome!

 

[Hendrix]

some updates:

I don't like the sound of the pickup previously use of this Tele, so I updated it with Bare knuckle. VII neck pickups, Aftermath bridge pickups with Burnt Chrome Bolts. Coil splits Mini Switch.

Round Top Knobs with the DIY copper finish.

 

[Cagey]

All I can say is, regardless of what it sounds like, that's an outstanding instrument!

 

[Tonar8352]

That is a good looking guitar!