Hodgo
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I’m guessing based on other posters, my Velocity project will not be landing any time soon. So what’s a fella to do?
Well, I decided to order a custom Tele body with no finish applied in the hopes it comes sooner and gives me a different project to pass the time. It’s pretty much a standard Tele with a roasted swamp ash body, with the addition of an upper LP toggle switch in addition to the hot dog top rout.
The neck is coming from a different company because frankly they offered what I wanted - roasted maple 21 fret 24.75” scale conversion neck, with a Les Paul neck profile, Jescar 51100 frets, and a 9.5-12” compound radius. That will be fit with a nylon 6/6 nut and Gotoh 510 H.A.P.M. tuners with ivoroid buttons.
The guitar will have Wilde Alnico T Micro-coils and the LP toggle switch will handle pickup selection duties. The theme of this build is basically a great looking Tele that feels ergonomically like a great Les Paul in the hands.
Bridge is up in the air - I’m really leaning towards a Bigsby B16. It just has that old school vibe, and with the added neck angle will change some of the geometry to be more Gibson like as well.
Well, I decided to order a custom Tele body with no finish applied in the hopes it comes sooner and gives me a different project to pass the time. It’s pretty much a standard Tele with a roasted swamp ash body, with the addition of an upper LP toggle switch in addition to the hot dog top rout.
The neck is coming from a different company because frankly they offered what I wanted - roasted maple 21 fret 24.75” scale conversion neck, with a Les Paul neck profile, Jescar 51100 frets, and a 9.5-12” compound radius. That will be fit with a nylon 6/6 nut and Gotoh 510 H.A.P.M. tuners with ivoroid buttons.
The guitar will have Wilde Alnico T Micro-coils and the LP toggle switch will handle pickup selection duties. The theme of this build is basically a great looking Tele that feels ergonomically like a great Les Paul in the hands.
Bridge is up in the air - I’m really leaning towards a Bigsby B16. It just has that old school vibe, and with the added neck angle will change some of the geometry to be more Gibson like as well.