elgravos
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Well here it is. Telepaul complete. Been built for a few weeks now but it's taken me a while to get some half decent pictures...
As per previous posts, spec is as follows:
- One piece mahogany body / Flame maple top with fireburst finish – clear gloss on the back. Vintage tint masked binding.
- Rosewood Conversion Neck (24-3/4” scale) with jet black ebony board – SS6105 – 1-11/16th at the nut (graphtech earvana) and a straight 12” radius. Staggered Sperzel locking tuners so no need for string trees.
As for pickups, those are a matched set of Bare-Knuckle Rebel Yells.
Guitar plays and sounds great. Think I should have called it a Telepaul(RS) as it actually feels a lot more like a PRS Custom 22 than an LP from a playing standpoint, but that shouldn’t really be a surprise given that it lacks the bulk and angled neck of an LP. I can’t complain on that front. It feels absolutely great – quite possibly the best guitar I have played to date. Sonically, where the bareknuckles come in, you are definitely well into in LP territory. Again, the lack of full LP bulk takes something out of the sound but you really are pretty close. Ultimately, I really think it’s down the scale length. If you are in the right ballpark on that front, as long as you have PAF based pickups and a mahogany body, it’s pretty hard to get it wrong. Anyway, I will definitely call this one a winner. Hands down my best guitar to date.
As per previous posts, spec is as follows:
- One piece mahogany body / Flame maple top with fireburst finish – clear gloss on the back. Vintage tint masked binding.
- Rosewood Conversion Neck (24-3/4” scale) with jet black ebony board – SS6105 – 1-11/16th at the nut (graphtech earvana) and a straight 12” radius. Staggered Sperzel locking tuners so no need for string trees.
As for pickups, those are a matched set of Bare-Knuckle Rebel Yells.
Guitar plays and sounds great. Think I should have called it a Telepaul(RS) as it actually feels a lot more like a PRS Custom 22 than an LP from a playing standpoint, but that shouldn’t really be a surprise given that it lacks the bulk and angled neck of an LP. I can’t complain on that front. It feels absolutely great – quite possibly the best guitar I have played to date. Sonically, where the bareknuckles come in, you are definitely well into in LP territory. Again, the lack of full LP bulk takes something out of the sound but you really are pretty close. Ultimately, I really think it’s down the scale length. If you are in the right ballpark on that front, as long as you have PAF based pickups and a mahogany body, it’s pretty hard to get it wrong. Anyway, I will definitely call this one a winner. Hands down my best guitar to date.
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