All rosewood Tele neck with Blocks

[tfarny]

Hi Everybody:
Time to show off a bit my second W project. I got the neck as a (planned) christmas present and have been tung oiling the body for a few weeks now. In person, the neck and body colors match extremely well but they look different in the photos.
Showcase walnut thinline body, P90neck tele bridge. Custom order all-rosewood tele neck, standard thin, 6130 frets, block inlays, graphite nut. Gotoh sg38 tuners. This is getting a SD lil 59 bridge and a Rio Grande Jazzbar neck, as well as the graphtech ghost piezo system. Pickup selector will go in the Les Paul position.

 

[tfarny]

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[tfarny]

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[tfarny]

one one more

 

[kruneh]

Oh-lala, that is sweet!
The block inlays is a nice little touch.

 

[Alfang]

That sounds sweet already, and looks even better,

I'm gonna have to build one of them thinline teles soon

 

[chris_kedro]

That looks really nice, too bad you're going to use it to play the blues!...J/K :laughing7:

What is the body wood?

 

[sundin4prez]

it looks better then i thought would be by your descriptions in your other post.............brilliant  :icon_thumright:

 

[tfarny]

Thanks guys, I can't wait to get this thing together.
Chris, the body is walnut but it may not be a very representative example of walnut; other walnut bodies I've seen have much curvier/curlier grain (more like burl), this one is a lot straighter and could almost pass for dark-stained ash. Top is two-piece but it would take a microscope to tell. Don't despair; I won't ONLY play the blues on it, just mostly.
Minwax 'dark walnut' stain, just two quick coats, then pure behlen's tung oil (8 coats). No grain fill and minimal sanding, a pretty easy wood to finish. Need to let it cure a few more days then buff it out.

 

[Nando Vallart]

Wow! Amazing!!!!!!  :cool01:

 

[TroubledTreble]

Wow! What a great way to start the year! Nice build, well thought out and excecution. Definatley one I would like to have.

-TT-

 

[bpmorton777]

That is one amazingly nice looking guitar dude! More pics when you are done, please!

Brian

 

[stubhead]

That looks like a guitar you could actually play, instead of hanging on the wall (and worrying about "the first scratch...") I like wood guitars - around here if you show up with anything too gaudy people start talking about how much "Prince would love your new guitar, fella...."). The pickguard matches the inlays too.

 

[dm251z]

WOW!    ccasion14:  That is beautiful!! 

 

[tfarny]

Actually, Stubhead, this photo represents my next project:
And yes, I do plan to play the hell out of it.

 

[WarmothRules]

That ain't no traditional tele. It's awesome!!!

 

[Stage Fright]

Tfarny,
Let us know how the piezo saddles sound.
  ---Russ

 

[tfarny]

They sound great. I have the finished guitar at http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=1865.0 and will post sound files at some point.