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[Frankentele]

I would like to introduce you all to Frankentele. Frankentele started out with an MJT pine Tele body, routed similar to Jeff Beck's Esquire. I then routed out a humbucker route in the bridge position, and also routed a trem cavity for the non-fine tuner Floyd Rose (not the cleanest work, but it works in the context of a relic!!) I had a Warmoth 24/34" scale conversion neck made, with 22 stainless steel 6150 frets, a Clapton contour V, compound radius, all beautifully constructed with roasted flame maple. It also sports an Earvana nut and Gotoh locking tuners, and I installed Luminlays for the side position markers. I finished it in a nitrocellulouse lacquer and added a Franken Tele logo, and then rubbed most of the finish off the back and applied gunstock oil and wax. The pickups are Seymour Duncan Little 59 and Distortion, wired to a custom control plate with a really solid 3 way toggle, a push pull coil splitting volume control, and a Tesi kill switch that has an LED with a battery pack and on/off switch in the back. Everything was reliced out and it is my ultimate tricked out Tele.

 

[rgand]

I generally don't like relic jobs on guitars but this one looks cool. The forearm contour cut with no regard to the finish is a nice touch (I don't play my Tele because it doesn't have one and can identify with that). Thanks for the pics.

Welcome to the forum.

 

[Frankentele]

I generally don't like relic jobs on guitars but this one looks cool. The forearm contour cut with no regard to the finish is a nice touch (I don't play my Tele because it doesn't have one and can identify with that). Thanks for the pics.

Welcome to the forum.

Mahalo!  (that's thank you in Hawaii, where I reside!)

 

[stratamania]

I generally don't like relic jobs on guitars but this one looks cool. The forearm contour cut with no regard to the finish is a nice touch (I don't play my Tele because it doesn't have one and can identify with that). Thanks for the pics.

Welcome to the forum.

Welcome to the forum Frankentele.

This pretty much echoes my thoughts. (Apart from I do play my Teles without those contours)

Perhaps the pickup covers could use a little ageing so they blend in with the rest of the look.

 

[Frankentele]

Ah, mahalo for the welcome and the nice words.  Yes, maybe some dark coffee over the covers would give them a nice dark vintage look.  Thanks for the idea!!

I generally don't like relic jobs on guitars but this one looks cool. The forearm contour cut with no regard to the finish is a nice touch (I don't play my Tele because it doesn't have one and can identify with that). Thanks for the pics.

Welcome to the forum.

Welcome to the forum Frankentele.

This pretty much echoes my thoughts. (Apart from I do play my Teles without those contours)

Perhaps the pickup covers could use a little ageing so they blend in with the rest of the look.

 

[stratamania]

Your welcome, post some more pics if you darken the pickups.

 

[DangerousR6]

Sweet.... :headbanging:

 

[fdesalvo]

That's such a good looking tele!

 

[aarontunes]

Aloha Frankentele! That is one bad-axe guitar!


For some reason, seeing that uber-modern illuminated push-button smack dab in the middle of a vintage-style, beat-to-snot workhorse just makes me giggle with glee. Well done!