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Another one done. Solid body Classic-T type body style made out of Ash. 5 Piece Maple/Black Walnut neck, 25″ scale, jumbo frets, 2-way truss rod with neck matching cover and Wilkinson EZ LOK tuners. I put an aluminum tone block in the back for the strings, and the pickups are GFS “Pure Vintage” Neovin noiseless. The body has a light brown stain that was sanded back to pop the grain, and an open pore Tru-oil finish. The neck is also Tru-oil and is bolt in style with stainless steel inserts in the neck and steel machine screws holding it on and is contoured to allow access to all 22 frets. It sounds fantastically bright like you would expect from this style, and it sustains for ever. I'm pretty happy with it, pretty impressed with the pickups as well.

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John Thiessen
http://www.iszacguitars.com

nice!
i like it a lot.
i too like the neck connect.
hows the neck feel with tru-oil?

nice looking guitar, i see you used the gfs pickups. do you like them? i have modded every guitar i have ever owned by gutting the and changing pots, switchs, jacks, and of course pickups. i have been faithful to seymour, but i am getting ready to build my first guitar from scratch and i dont want to spend 150.00 or so on pickups concidering i am probably going to mess up the build. do the gfs pups sound close to sd pups?

Neck feels great, I use it on almost all of my necks, really slick and doesn't get sticky with sweat.



I like these GFS pickups, I have installed 2 sets of them now. I used them on this guitar because I wasn't building it for anyone, will probably keep it for a while and wanted to save some money. I have been impressed with a lot of the GFS stuff. I have a few of their effects pedals and cables, all really nice stuff especially when you consider the price, their gold plated cable is way nicer than a monster cable I bought and half the price. There is a pretty long thread here http://www.luthiersforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10123&t=28738 about GFS. They seem to be pretty well designed, and they are cheap because they are built in China. I think they sound as good as SD for just regular pickups, SD has a little more technology in their higher end stuff, but for the money, GFS can't be beat and if you have a guitar to someone and don't tell them how much you paid for the pickups they would never know.

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John Thiessen
http://www.iszacguitars.com

Beautiful job! Love the true oil body.
I also like the GFS pickups that I've used so far(Vintage 59 Humbuckers). I'm planning a minimalist build with their Crunchy PAT humbucker. Gonna see what their lowest priced humbucker sounds like.
Really like the Tele.

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Mike

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beautiful i love the neck joint i might build a tele as my next project

Very nice. I love teles.

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Brock Poling
Columbus, Ohio
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Ditto. Nicely done!

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im wrapping up a similar tele build. im thinking i might use a set of the gfs noiseless pups, but for it, but havent quite made up my mind yet on which set to go with, how do you like the "pure vintage " set?

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Thanks for all the kinds words. I played it at church yesterday and loved it, so did everyone else.

I had used this neck joint style on a set neck before, but never bolt in, but it works great. With the steel inserts you really only need 2 bolts if they are placed right (the new Taylors use one). I added the third because the two centered ones were not close enough to the nut edge of the joint and allowed the neck to flex in the joint.




I like them a lot. I honestly haven't played a bunch of Tele's but always wanted one. That being said, these pickups are super bright and responsive with lots of that Tele twang. Not even a hint of hum either (our sound guys at church will let you know if there is). I was initially more impressed with the neck pickup than the bridge, but after playing with my amp settings a bit, both sound really great. I have it wired standard, and like it in all three positions. I would be interested to try the hotter pickups that GFS has, going to this guitar from my other guitars (BG Pups Smokestack humbuckers and GFS crunchy rails) what was high gain on those guitars is barely breaking up with these (very classic rock type breakup) Of course, that means I can run the gain knob all the way up on my Carvin V3

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John Thiessen
http://www.iszacguitars.com