First shot at home done pick guard.

[bassetman]

I wanted something a bit different. This was the bottom of a drawer yesterday. I know I muffed it a bit around the bridge.

 

[rgand]

Looks good. I like the way the three woods visually work together.

 

[bassetman]

And with the control plate. My nieces graduation present.

 

[DangerousR6]

Very cool, great job on both the pg and control plate..I'm sure your niece will love it... :headbanging:

 

[AirCap]

You did a darn sight better than my first pickguard....
How many years ago was that? 40?

 

[rgand]

:icon_thumright:

 

[Verne Bunsen]

Looks great, good work! Seems like there was a middle pickup in the last picture of that guitar, did it get cut from the team or is it just hiding?

 

[bassetman]

The middle is there I just haven’t routed that hole yet since the new recipient is getting a different setup....she changed mind....girls...now wants Tele.
I just ordered another body for mine....I learned a lot on the first next will be better.

 

[stratamania]

Looks good.

I am probably preaching to the choir, but if you were relying on the control plate for ground previously you may need to add some wiring for ground with the wooden control plate.

 

[musicispeace]

Whoa! That is one fine, fine tele. Superb job. I'm supremely fighting ideas about a second tele and am losing but putting up a pretty good fight. Very nice result you have.

 

[bassetman]

Thank you.

 

[BigSteve22]

Look'n good Brother, nice job!  :icon_thumright:

 

[DangerousR6]

I'm suprised at how figured that piece of wood is for the bottom of a drawer...

 

[Cagey]

I agree. Although, I've seen that sort of thing in the past on old better-made pieces of furniture. I think back when curly Maple was more plentiful than it is now, some of the craftsmen may have thought if it wasn't 5A, it was construction grade. Actually, I'm not sure how long the various "A" ratings have been around. They may not have started grading it until it got a bit more sparse. It was either regular ol' Maple, or it was "fiddleback" - the super-figured stuff used to make violins, that today we would call "5A".

 

[bassetman]

One of the nicer aspects of living in a tiny isolated town is that most of the junk furniture at yard sales dates from the twenties and thirties. I bought the broken piece to recycle the wood.

 

[bassetman]

Looks good.

I am probably preaching to the choir, but if you were relying on the control plate for ground previously you may need to add some wiring for ground with the wooden control plate.

All the pots are grounded together and there is metal tape on the backside.

 

[Hendrix]

very nice  :glasses10:

 

[bassetman]

Thanks. It’s my 13th creation.

 

[bassetman]

It’s shipped to its new home. Making a high school senior happy in a couple weeks. I hate letting the good ones go....a couple of my early ones I couldn’t throw far enough away.