Building a telecaster styled guitar: Finally!! the Butternut-Maple tele is complete

Soooo . . . a little more than two years after commencing a project to build two telecaster styled guitars, the second one is complete. The first one rolled out last year (birch neck, past blog posts). This second one has a maple neck. Both have butternut bodies. Throughout the project, the intent was to experiment and learn on the birch model, and to apply lessons learned to the maple one. As it turns out, both crossed the finish line as quality instruments, although the maple one is slightly more refined and my overall preference. Both are highly playable.

Butternut-Maple tele       2018, March 30

Butternut-Maple tele. The wide furrel spacing eliminates the the crowding that occurs when the string holes are drilled straight through the bode to the bridge. These holes were angled slightly to align wuth the narrower spacings on the bridge.