Quilt Maple 72 Thinline Telecaster

[mero]

This was my first Warmoth, a 72 thinline style telecaster

Body was from Warmoth's showcase
Alder, quilt maple top
Tobacco Sunburst

Neck was from USACG
2-piece Indian Rosewood
25.5" scale
7.25" to 9.5" compound radius
6230 stainless steel frets
Graphtech TusQ XL nut
Schaller M6 Mini locking tuners

Started off life with GFS Mean90 pickups and a Warmoth vintage strat hardtail, but these eventually got swapped for a set of Dimarzio 36th Anniversay PAFs and a Hipshot hardtail bridge
Electronics also eventually got overhauled with Bareknuckle pots and Jensen caps

 

[Death by Uberschall]

Nice top.  ccasion14:

 

[swarfrat]

Nice guitar, but honestly, a good storyteller can make a trip to the grocery store an epic novel. really nice shots man.

 

[bagman67]

That's a handsome axe, indeed.  I have that same bridge on my own green tele - I'm very happy with its appearance and its feel.  Nice job.

 

[greywolf]

gorgeous , although with 2 humbuckers I'd not really class it as a Tele

 

[Death by Uberschall]

gorgeous , although with 2 humbuckers I'd not really class it as a Tele

??? :icon_scratch:

 

[mero]

gorgeous , although with 2 humbuckers I'd not really class it as a Tele

It's pretty close to the original 72 though! Humbuckers instead of the Fender wide-range pickups, but close enough for me without spending a bomb on the original CuNiFe pickups

I mainly use it for more mellow ambient styles, cleans are great on the Dimarzio pickups  :icon_thumright:

 

[Updown]

Found it  :icon_biggrin:

Great all round looking guitar  :headbang:

 

[deajo]

nice quilt...

perfect choices all around...btw, i love the 36th anni pickups...i have one in the bridge of my strat right now...

i am building a HH tele with almost the same specs...i had the body drilled for the american flat mount bridge...will the hipshot bridge work with those mounting holes?

i was curious about the comment about about it not being a "tele"...it kind of got me thinking...there is the tele-paul that seymour duncan made for jeff beck...i guess this guitar falls in the same category...

my guitar is a tele body, two humbucker with a strat headstock...for the life of me, i can't think of a "hybrid" name that works...paul telestrat sounds like a person...lol

 

[shagga]

Wow, a very beautiful guitar! How do you like the 36th Anniversarys?

 

[tfarny]

Lovely axe! If you don't mind, what version hipshot bridge is that, and what Warmoth route did it fit into? Any problems there?

 

[Unwound G]

Lovely axe! If you don't mind, what version hipshot bridge is that, and what Warmoth route did it fit into? Any problems there?

If you study the string spread over the bridge humbucker, the Hipshot bridge probably has a string spacing of 2-1/8" instead of 2-1/16".  This will work fine.  These bridges are good solid stainless steel ones which will not corrode even with the Allen worm screws.

Mero, nice work.

 

[dmraco]

I love anything quilt....

 

[mero]

Lovely axe! If you don't mind, what version hipshot bridge is that, and what Warmoth route did it fit into? Any problems there?

http://store.hipshotproducts.com/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=329

This is the bridge I have, the route was originally for a Warmoth vintage hardtail

Minor gripe is that the baseplate is thinner than the Warmoth bridge, so the saddles are sitting pretty high up, near the end of the adjustment screws

Unwound G: good guess from the bridge humbucker, but I've got a f-spaced one in there so the string spread is wider

 

[Steve_Karl]

Very nice looking guitar!

 

[tfarny]

Lovely axe! If you don't mind, what version hipshot bridge is that, and what Warmoth route did it fit into? Any problems there?

http://store.hipshotproducts.com/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=329

This is the bridge I have, the route was originally for a Warmoth vintage hardtail

Minor gripe is that the baseplate is thinner than the Warmoth bridge, so the saddles are sitting pretty high up, near the end of the adjustment screws

Unwound G: good guess from the bridge humbucker, but I've got a f-spaced one in there so the string spread is wider

Thanks! So, it bolted straight on and the string through holes are in the right spot, no problems? I know they have a thinner and thicker baseplate version, but W seems to hate hipshot and won't provide info about how the two companies' parts fit together.

 

[mero]

Thanks! So, it bolted straight on and the string through holes are in the right spot, no problems? I know they have a thinner and thicker baseplate version, but W seems to hate hipshot and won't provide info about how the two companies' parts fit together.

Yup no problems. Not too sure, but I think the version with 2 baseplate thicknesses uses a different route and string spacing, probably same as the modern hardtail.