Hybrid Tonar Tele

[tfarny]

New pics ~ went for a neck bucker by our friend at Roadhouse Pickups.



Beautiful day today, not to be ruined by "futbol" (ties?  :icon_scratch: seriously?)

This is officially a keeper now - I can't find any reason not to love it. I know 1/2 of you think this is totally wrong, but I don't care!

Chambered mahogany body 3 1/2 lb, rosewood / ebony '59 neck 24.75 scale. Finishing by Tonar in dye / nitro. Bill Lawrence "Keystone" pickups and my special 5-way switching (includes series out of phase "touch wha" and series in phase "bucker"). At some point, the PW tuners might come off and lighter ones take their place - the whole thing weighs 7 lb and is a wee bit neck heavy.

The rest you can pretty much see for yourselves.

 

[erogenousjones17]

Why would anyone think this is wrong? Looks great to me. Sure, it hasn't got a Tele headstock, bu who cares about that?  :laughing7:

 

[hannaugh]

I think it looks cool.  I probably would have gone with a black pickguard, but the white looks good too. 

 

[drewfx]

Nothing wrong there in my book. Looks beautiful.

What does it sound like?

 

[jay4321]

Looks fine to me, W headstocks look good on teles. Very good red color up front, and black vs white guard a non-issue, both would look great on that color red for sure.

Is this your first Tonar tele? I have my 2nd but still a couple parts short to finish.

 

[tfarny]

Sounds totally great, which is one of the main reasons to keep it that way. It is darker and more reverby than a standard tele - I'm sure the chambering and the rosewood neck and the 24.75 scale all play a role. The BL neck pickup approaches 'stratty' clear tone, and the bridge is classic tele. It doesn't tend to icepicky treble unless I set up the amp for that, basically it's a fatter version of a tele sound.  My fave pickup position for it though is both series - humbucking.

 

[erogenousjones17]

I was just looking at this guitar again, and man do I need a tele.

 

[tfarny]

Oh yeah, and it's strung with .011 pure nickels, which mellow out the tone quite a bit. I wonder if I'd prefer it with regular strings...

 

[dNA]

with a guitar that warm, i imagine brighter strings would probably balance out really well.
and i too would vote for a black pickguard, tho that looks fine. Did you have a different neck on this beast before? I would LOVE to hear some clips

 

[Finch]

how DARE you think outside of the box and bring such a beautiful instrument into the world. I demand you send it to me for safekeeping!  :guitarplayer2:

very nice guitar  :icon_thumright: :icon_thumright:

 

[nexrex]

Wow beautiful. Warmoth headstock looks good on most things. Tonar has really outdone himself on that dye.  :hello2:

 

[Alfang]

So we've all seen tonars work in pics, tell us how it looks in person.

And it looks totaly awsome to me, I'd enter that in hannahs design competition

 

[imminentG]

Diggin' everything but the Warhead! But that IS what makes it yours, no? Good job with this one right here.

 

[tfarny]

New pickguard and neck pickup - I had Ken at Roadhouse make me a nice clean yet classic bucker (A5, lowish wind) that works really, really well in this guitar and provides a great counterpoint to the bridge tele. Very pleased. Thanks Ken!!!

BTW your pickups are out of phase with dimarzio, just fyi.

 

[erogenousjones17]

I'd have to say that this is probably only the second (maybe third) guitar in which a zebra humbucker really works, the other being Jay's LPB Tele Deluxe (which has sadly been stripped of its zebrocity).

But I digress. Killer Tele.  :icon_thumright:

 

[lafromla1]

Need some sounds clips of Ken's pups.

Nice axe  :rock-on: