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Hi everyone!
This is my first post on this forum. I just thought I'd share some pictures of a Warmoth/Fender Telecaster guitar I've been having built.
This is my first real guitar building project and it has been really educational. Instead of just buying a guitar brand new without really thinking about how it was made, you have to put consideration into every little minute detail. It makes you research everything about the anatomy of a guitar and I am surprised how much I have enjoyed it! So much so, that I am considering doing a guitar building/maintenance course at some point in the near future.
My project isn't finished yet. The guitar is built, but still requires the electrical components and pickups. I'm also considering having an Evertune bridge fitted but I'm unsure whether I want the guitar routed out. I'm uncertain about whether it'll affect the tone by having less wood. Some people claim that wood doesn't affect electric guitar tone, but I'm on the fence about that. Any feedback about whether I should fit an Evertune bridge would be valued immensely!
Some details about the guitar:
It has a bookmatched mahogany Warmoth body routed for an HSH pickup configuration and arm and body contours. The satin nitro finish was done by a local guitar technician before any building was done.
A Warmoth custom 3 ply cream pickguard.
Fender standard 6 saddle bridge.
A Fender MIA Telecaster neck with a rosewood fingerboard and satin finish.
Fender tuners.
I plan to install Bare Knuckle Juggernaut humbuckers in the bridge and neck positions, and I'm having a custom single coil pickup made for the middle position by a company called Oil City Pickups in London. I'll be putting in a switchcraft 5 way Strat pickup selector switch with push/push tone and volume knobs for coil splitting the humbuckers to hopefully give me a more classic Fender single coil tone. I may also fit a killswitch button somewhere on the scratchplate.
I'll update as the guitar progresses. Other things have came up which have been stopping me from finishing the guitar as quickly as I hoped.
Thanks,
Michael.
This is my first post on this forum. I just thought I'd share some pictures of a Warmoth/Fender Telecaster guitar I've been having built.
This is my first real guitar building project and it has been really educational. Instead of just buying a guitar brand new without really thinking about how it was made, you have to put consideration into every little minute detail. It makes you research everything about the anatomy of a guitar and I am surprised how much I have enjoyed it! So much so, that I am considering doing a guitar building/maintenance course at some point in the near future.
My project isn't finished yet. The guitar is built, but still requires the electrical components and pickups. I'm also considering having an Evertune bridge fitted but I'm unsure whether I want the guitar routed out. I'm uncertain about whether it'll affect the tone by having less wood. Some people claim that wood doesn't affect electric guitar tone, but I'm on the fence about that. Any feedback about whether I should fit an Evertune bridge would be valued immensely!
Some details about the guitar:
It has a bookmatched mahogany Warmoth body routed for an HSH pickup configuration and arm and body contours. The satin nitro finish was done by a local guitar technician before any building was done.
A Warmoth custom 3 ply cream pickguard.
Fender standard 6 saddle bridge.
A Fender MIA Telecaster neck with a rosewood fingerboard and satin finish.
Fender tuners.
I plan to install Bare Knuckle Juggernaut humbuckers in the bridge and neck positions, and I'm having a custom single coil pickup made for the middle position by a company called Oil City Pickups in London. I'll be putting in a switchcraft 5 way Strat pickup selector switch with push/push tone and volume knobs for coil splitting the humbuckers to hopefully give me a more classic Fender single coil tone. I may also fit a killswitch button somewhere on the scratchplate.
I'll update as the guitar progresses. Other things have came up which have been stopping me from finishing the guitar as quickly as I hoped.
Thanks,
Michael.
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