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[QUOTE=DannyV] Brock, that is just beautiful(please excuse). I think my space bar quit
working from the drool. Is that going to a good home or do you get to keep
it?[/QUOTE]

Thanks. Unfortunately I didn't get to keep that one, but I have a couple billets of that sapele and I am thinking I might build myself one of those too.

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Brock Poling
Columbus, Ohio
http://www.polingguitars.com

[QUOTE=Pwoolson] Hey Brock, what kind of wood is that? [/QUOTE]

If we only had a dollar for every time we heard that question, huh?   

That rig of yours is really hot ... you need to make one of those and paint it white. I think that would be smokin' as well.

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Brock Poling
Columbus, Ohio
http://www.polingguitars.com

[QUOTE=Brock Poling] [QUOTE=Pwoolson] Hey Brock, what kind of wood is that? [/QUOTE]

If we only had a dollar for every time we heard that question, huh?   

That rig of yours is really hot ... you need to make one of those and paint it white. I think that would be smokin' as well.

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HGF'07.

A tele is a great place to start out. It's hard to hate a tele, everyone digs 'em.
Paul, I've built bodies like the semi-acoustic tele you show, and with the right bridge pickup and electronics you can get a great acoustic tone from them. Yours looks great!

Brocks' tele must be for a lap slide player- look at that high nut! <G>

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Mark Swanson
Swanson Guitars
http://www.MarkSwansonMusic.com

If you don't build what you see for you in your head you won't be happy.
And that is always the most exciting anyway!

Well, I (almost) hate to show this again...
I really need to build another one.
But since we're praising Tele's, here's mine:








Steve

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From Nacogdoches...the oldest town in Texas.

http://www.stephenkinnaird.com

Here's one of my Teles


electrics can be fun

Second attempt

   Larry, forget the Tele's, the PRS's and the LP's....

   One word Lar! TEISCO! Yea! That's it!

   Tokyo Electric Instrument and Sound Company!!!!

   The Del Rey!

   You got it! Nobody builds these Bad Boys!




No need to thank me Bud!

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Billy Dean Thomas
Covina, CA

"Multi famam, conscientiam, pauci verentur."
(Many fear their reputation, few their conscience)

That flame-paintjob Tele is the first tele with a top carve I've ever seen that I think actually works!

I've got a bit of a love/hate thing going with Telecasters; they're really a bit blocky, not that pretty, mostly, but they're also just kinda right. It took a friend and me arguing what's better: strat or tele for me to start building one, and when I cut it up and routed it, well, it just sort of grew on me.

It's currently in the pile of guitars (three) waiting for my 'finishing run'; they're mostly low-priority (ie, for me), have two other eletrics on the go right now that need to be finished first (a left-handed Kelly Explorer type thing, and a chambered spruce carved archtop electric).

Hey Larry -

My first was an electric - I'll bring it by some time if you want to see it.
Looks sort of like a ES-335. The construction of a solid or semi-solid is
in my mind easier than an acoustic or an archtop electric. Except for the
darn electronics. I melted a potentiometer (aka a volume/tone knob)
before I decided that I have no friggin' clue what I'm doing with a
soldering iron. I had TK at Strings and Things finish the electronics for
me.

Long time no see - let me know if you want to get together some time.

Jay

why not build a hollowbody tele - ala g&l asat classic?

i've got one of those things and it is a beaut.

 

 

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Kahle - I used the EMG-T set (not the EMG-TC with ceramic magnets). The EMG literature says that the neck pickup in this set is the nicest pickup they build, and I won't contest them on that - it is sweet! The bridge pickup doesn't have as much bite as a real Tele bridge pickup should have - I'd rate it as good, not great.

Jim, just giving the EMGS a test. As I said before they sound good in the Paul. Ive got the T set as well and will use them but...I find that the actives lack a certain character that passive pickups impart for some reason. They are very articulate but maybe inorganic is a good word to describe it. After these two guitars it will be back to the Seymour Duncans that I know and love, however, I may try the Fralins and Bardens.

Imo, the number one cardinal sin in making electrics is in putting a hardtail bridge right on top of these thick plastic finsihes you see.

With my own guitars I install the bridge right on bare wood, tape it off and finish around it.

Here is something different to build. On the right a gold top Danelectro Longhorn. All maple neck through with ebony fingerboard. On the left a Bigsby Merle Travis. Quilted maple top and ebony board.

Cool stuff, MrP!

Steve

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From Nacogdoches...the oldest town in Texas.

http://www.stephenkinnaird.com

Your shop must be one big, cool Wayback Machine, Pbody!

[QUOTE=Kahle]

Jim, just giving the EMGS a test. As I said before they sound good in the Paul. Ive got the T set as well and will use them but...I find that the actives lack a certain character that passive pickups impart for some reason. They are very articulate but maybe inorganic is a good word to describe it. After these two guitars it will be back to the Seymour Duncans that I know and love, however, I may try the Fralins and Bardens.


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Kahle - Bardens are like Brazilian Rosewood now - good luck finding them.

Articulate but inorganic was my take on a set of DiMarzio's that I used in another Tele. That one was sort of a take on the Irwin Garcia guitars - Bridge was a Super Distortion, middle an SDS-1, and neck a Super II.
After some playing time with it, I felt that this was not a setup that you would be using if you weren't playing through a pretty elaborate and varied effects setup - the pickups by themselves sounded clinical and cold.

Here's a picture of that one. You may notice that it has a really wide neck. I did that because I was thinking it would make it easier to switch back and forth between the electric and acoustic. All that happened was that I got an electric with a really wide neck.

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Jim Kirby
kirby@udel.edu

My understanding is that Barden had some issues with his old company and has reentered the market with a new outfit so availability may become somewhat better. He's a VA boy relatively close by so I will try to investigate. I've never dealt much with the DiMarzio's just fell into the Duncans and never had an inclination to try any others. The active pickup phase I'm going through is simply experimentation. I do like the Fralin and Barden pickups they are just so expensive. BTW yer tele sure is pretty J.

I made a strat from internet aquired parts, and have over the years changed quite a few pickups and pots. Since we're talking about pickups here for a second I thought I'd plug one I got off Ebay, from a guy in Livermore California, who hand winds them. His company is called Vintage Vibe I think. Nice sound! And I got a set for about $100.00, though I don't even know if he's still around or what his prices are now.

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"Preoccupation with an effect gives it power and enhances the error"
from "Your Owner's Manual" by Burt Hotchkiss.

I guess I'm in the Les Paul camp....

Can I join the Tele club?? Here's my cocobolo-padauk Tele with a rosewood
neck:

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trying pics again... Grrr!

 

[QUOTE=Telfer] Imo, the number one cardinal sin in making electrics is in putting a hardtail bridge right on top of these thick plastic finsihes you see.

With my own guitars I install the bridge right on bare wood, tape it off and finish around it.[/QUOTE]

Erm, I challenge you to blind-test pick out the guitars with and without finish removed from under the bridge. I already have issues with people who claim they can pick out the precise wood used, what with there being so many other variables, but finish or lack thereof under a bridge? Mind, I apply a finish to my electrics thin, not plastic fantastic import guitar thick. No reason to make it stupidly thick, even if I sincerely doubt (again) I could tell the difference between a thick and a thin finish, tonally. But it's good practice to do it thin.