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swarfrat
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Been browsing the showcase. All the hardtail basswood bodies I found were top routed teles. I like basswood as a tonewood. (although I'm not sure about it's potential for DIY finish - the ones which are easy to make nice looking are all transparent)
At any rate, the bigger issue is the bridge and bridge pickup hole. The easy answer is of course, to route for a humbucker and use a Gotoh Tele-HB bridge. Tele pickup is not really an option for me. The American Standard Strat string holes appear to line up pretty well, but the tele bridge pickup route is rather cavernous. I spent way too much of my batchelor saturday when I could be doing other fun stuff throwing this together... I had hoped for a hardtail strat or other hardtail bridge arrangement that didn't show up on air defense radars, but it's not looking good because of the area in red.
If this ever gets built, it's likely to be my concert pitch baritone (possibly arguing against my bridge pickup selection. Long scale high tension sounds like a single coil crisp airy belltone machine. I'll have to revisit that. But it won't be the right hand slanted icepick.) Contemplating tru-oil on maple for the neck as well.
At any rate, the bigger issue is the bridge and bridge pickup hole. The easy answer is of course, to route for a humbucker and use a Gotoh Tele-HB bridge. Tele pickup is not really an option for me. The American Standard Strat string holes appear to line up pretty well, but the tele bridge pickup route is rather cavernous. I spent way too much of my batchelor saturday when I could be doing other fun stuff throwing this together... I had hoped for a hardtail strat or other hardtail bridge arrangement that didn't show up on air defense radars, but it's not looking good because of the area in red.

If this ever gets built, it's likely to be my concert pitch baritone (possibly arguing against my bridge pickup selection. Long scale high tension sounds like a single coil crisp airy belltone machine. I'll have to revisit that. But it won't be the right hand slanted icepick.) Contemplating tru-oil on maple for the neck as well.