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just finnished it today! swamp ash on swamp ash body stained "antique Jade". Canary neck with pau ferro fret board, vintage tuners. Duncan hot in the bridge, and vintage in the neck. Tunomatic bridge, with through body strings. Upper Gibson style pup selector, and last but not least TC-90 pickgaurd (also found on the JA-90)

Hope you like  :tard:

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a thinline with 2 p90's and a recessed TOM/string through bridge?
Crazy idea.... not something I would go for ;)
 
I'm diggin the color.... and REALLY liking that pickguard.  Where on earth, man, did you dig that gem up?  Or did you modify an existing?
 
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I'm diggin the color.... and REALLY liking that pickguard.  Where on earth, man, did you dig that gem up?  Or did you modify an existing?
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It's off the fender TC-90, and it's also found on the fender JA-90 (jimmy eat worlds singers signature telecaster). I luckily scooped it off ebay for $2.50. I think I'm going to try and reproduce a few so I can dress the tele up in different colours  :icon_thumright:

I'm really happy with the guitar, definatly going to build another warmoth when time and funds permit  :cool01:  the neck feels fantastic, so fast and smooth, like butter. im only going to have raw necks from now on!


 
Nice especially with that pickguard and P90s.  How did you install the pickup toggle switch ?  I tried putting it through the f-hole before drilling the hole but somehow I cannot get the switch to stand upright.  Perhaps you used a shorter switch ?
 
I've done several of those switches so far. 

Frist you make the hole the right size, in the place you want it to be.

With your switch cable of choice, making sure before hand, that the swich cable AND the pickup cable can fit in the hole from pickup route to lower control route.  Enlarge as needed.

Drill a hole from the pickup route to the upper chamber big enuf for the switch cable

Optionally - you may also want to route a little trough in the pickup cavity for the wire that goes to the switch.

Pass the switch wire from the pickup cavity to the upper chamber and fish it out of the F/hole

Wire up the switch

Send a fishing line thru the hole you drilled for the switch, and pull it out the F/hole

Place the star washer on the switch, and tie/superglue the fishing line to the switch - with no plastic lever attached

Train, trick, beg, cajole, threaten, and or spank the switch into position using the switch cable and the fishing line.

Place the switch ring and nut over the line and start them onto the switch

Tighten the nut and remove the line - done

Optionally - you may want to make a little tool that fits thru the F/hole, to hold the switch from spinning.  One I did with no tool, the rest I did with a little bent piece of aluminum about 3/4 inch wide and 1/16 thick and ... maybe 6 or 7 inches long.  It just goes in there and wedges between the switch and the body.  You gotta keep the switch position lined up, but other than getting the nut tight... its really pretty simple.
 
Unwound G said:
Nice especially with that pickguard and P90s.  How did you install the pickup toggle switch ?  I tried putting it through the f-hole before drilling the hole but somehow I cannot get the switch to stand upright.  Perhaps you used a shorter switch ?
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pretty much as above, warmoth told me they couldnt route for that switch as there wasnt enough wood to work with, so I decided not to have one up there, but once I had everything pretty much together, it wouldn't have looked right without it!

I used a 22-4 security wire to wire up the switch, its perfect, has green - white - red - black wires, with a bare and its all wrapped so ther is no jungle of wires visible through the f hole, and in fact I had enough slack that it goes all the way around the hole and it not visible!

I didnt make a groove for the wire to sit in the pup route as I actually wanted the p90 to be lifted up a bit, as the vintage neck was taller than the hot bridge. i pulled the wire through the f hole, wired up my switch, which is a short upright switch, and just pushed it into the guitar body and general direction of the hole I drilled. I was lucky and the tip of the switch ended up in the hole so I pulled it out with needle nose pliers, set my washer and nut on it, and tightened it. I love it!



 
Badass, reminds me of the Fender Jim Adkins (Jimmy Eat World) sig. Tele.

Really good job!
 
This is a beauty!  Makes me want to build a tele next.  I love the finish, did you do it yourself?
 
What's with that brown streak on the fretboard? is that part of the wood or a fault in the picture?
 
Now that I have an EMG Tele, I really, really want a P90 version.

I dig this completely.
 
Hello,
      I read your above post saying you might make copies of the TC-90 pickguard...if you do, would you consider selling one? Not to long ago I got a used TC-90 guitar that was missing the pickguard and I'm having a difficult time locating one.Fender wouldn't even sell the one from the JA-90.
        I understand if you can't or won't sell one,but this would help me greatly.
                                                                                                 
                                                                                                    Thanks.

                                           
                      By the way,nice work on the guitar.
 
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