Attack of the Rosewood Twelecaster!

[drewfx]

Ok, I finally got around to taking some pictures of my last couple of builds. This is the rosewood "twelecaster" sale-build I finished last month. I hope to be finished tuning it sometime next year:

It's an all rosewood thinline body, with a maple pinstripe. It was in the showcase with no neck, bridge or pickup routes, making it irrestible to someone who always wanted both a rosewood tele and an electric 12. After much wavering, I decided to go with no f-holes and a standard tele (pearloid) pickguard, and left it unfinished.

The neck is a Warmoth Pro '59 roundback/maple/ebony/MOP dots/clear satin finish.
Pickups are a GFS Memphis Alnico 2 Rickenbacker tone Vintage Jangle Pickup in the bridge, and a Seymour Duncan Seth Lover Model™ SH-55 in the neck - the idea being to get both (sort of) 360/12 and ES1275D tones.
Standard tele master volume and tone (500k).
5 way switch - positions 2 and 4 put a 33k resistor in series with the opposite pickup (to reduce its volume somewhat), so it's essentially a 5-way blend control.

drewfx

 

[Nando Vallart]

Very very very very cool!!!

 

[whyachi]

That's sexy, but I would have stuck an F hole on it.

 

[drewfx]

That's sexy, but I would have stuck an F hole on it.

You know I went back and forth about a hundred times - I would have really loved an F-hole, but I liked a standard tele pickguard better than the thinline ones or the hybrids...

 

[Schlieren]

For me, an f-hole is just one too many elements on Telecaster.

Also 

 

[Wana_make_a_guitar]

Thats a nice guitar. I like it.  :toothy10:

 

[JaySwear]

that is one of the prettiest guitars i've EVER seen. and i'm really not a fan of twelve stringers

 

[whyachi]

The pearl knobs are a very nice touch.

 

[DangerousR6]

That is sweet, the world needs more 12 strings....Now if I could just find a Floyd for a 12 string.... :icon_scratch: :headbang1:

 

[Mor Paul]

I love it, especially because the next project for me is going to be a 12 string tele.

 

[bbl4ck]

F the f-hole...
That is one beautiful  :glasses9: geetar.
Very, very, very, very, very cool build...
:kewlpics: :rock-on:

 

[tubby.twins]

Very nice!  Unfinished rosewood makes a great body.

 

[baskruit]

For me, an f-hole is just one too many elements on Telecaster.

Also 

Totally. This is a gorgeous body as it is.

 

[hannaugh]

That's yummy.  I bet it sounds great too!

 

[m4rk0]

That looks great!!!!

However....... are you sure that this is a thinline and not a solid tele body?
the reason why I am asking is, I tried W to sell me a thinline and hollow bodies with a pinstripe, but they insisted that this is not possible..... did anything change?

 

[drewfx]

Thanks to all for the compliments.

And it's 100% absolutely a thinline with a maple pinstripe. Don't know why they would tell you it's not possible. Maybe that's one of those where you have to ask again?

 

[dNA]

that's frickin gorgeous. 
i want

 

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

Nice touch with the GFS Retrotron.

 

[llmtelecaster]

That is just TOO cool. Never seen one of those better. Beautiful, too.

 

[Loobs]

This is awesome.