Wow, I just noticed that I haven't posted on this blog since March 21. I guess it's been a few months since I've been in the guitar shop, which is usually the way things go once spring arrives. Designing and building in the shop, close to the wood furnace, is one of my winter comforts. I bought enough hardware and electrics to complete my #2 Tele. As you may recall, we had each made two necks and two bodies, the thought being that we would use our lesser quality neck and body blanks to perfect our method and work out the bugs, and then move on to our #1 blanks for the final product. Seemed to make sense, as many of the processes are very painstaking, and are rife with places to screw-up. It turns out that for the most part, all four have turned out not half bad, and the one I completed this week is my #2.
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| Vintage '59 Tele re-creation. Butternut body w/ yellow birch neck. The distressed look used on the top was created with the sparing application and removal of dark blue latex stain. |
Where this is my #2, I didn't go whole-hog on the hardware. I opted for good quality, medium grade, mostly from Stewart-MacDonald. I am very pleased with the Slick pup's from guitarfetish.com. They are recreations of the origional "Fullerton" alnico pickups used by Fender. I used a Japanese (gasp) Gotoh "Wilkinson" compensated bridge, and very nice Klusen tuners.
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| Vintage '59 Tele re-creation, showing the figuring of the butternut on the back and the flush ferrules. |
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