NGD/NMD: Tele Thinline Super Deluxe Lite

JerkMoans

 Greetings, comrades!

The inspiration for this one was the soon to be released fender Thinline Super Deluxe.  Full of Tango Orangey goodness, TV Jones pickups and a rather incongruous Jazzmaster style block neck.



Well I loved the idea of the Thinline with the Filtertrons, slighlty less the Tango thing, and was equivocal about the neck.  Oh, and I wasn't sure about paying £1600 for the thing or laying down a deposit with it unplayed.

Anyway.  Serendipity brought a 72 Thinline my way.  And, like Frank Sinatra, why not?



Great guitar.  Lovely to play.  Lovely to look at.  But the 'Wide Range' pickups are anything but, frankly.

Cut a long story short, some delightful chaps in the States sorted me out with this:



A fun evening of tools and soldering irons and all the rest of it, and we have this.  I stress I am no luthier and this has taken me to the limit of my abilities, but I'm both a bit proud and very pleased with it.  Regrettably the fair Mrs Moans and the minor Moanses have long since hit the hay, so your baying cries for sound samples will have to wait.  All I now need is a rattle can of orange paint.

Pictures!

The_Whisper_Thief

Excellent work my friend!! It’s amazing how different she looks with the slimmer pups, makes the body look longer and very elegant. 

impmann

Nice - those standard Fender Wide Range pickups are a bit muddy. I replaced mine with Mojo wide ranges and it sounds epic.
interesting idea with the Filtertrons.

DrCornelius

I bet that sounds epic,  well played sir.

lovestrat74

Have your 501th fret on me - wow!

JerkMoans

The_Whisper_Thief said:

Excellent work my friend!! It’s amazing how different she looks with the slimmer pups, makes the body look longer and very elegant. 

Thanks!

Length and elegance is pretty much all I aspire to, amigo. 

JerkMoans

impmann said:

Nice - those standard Fender Wide Range pickups are a bit muddy. I replaced mine with Mojo wide ranges and it sounds epic.
interesting idea with the Filtertrons.

Seems everybody swaps 'em out.  Apparently they're just fender standard humbuckers in a crap ton of wax and shoved inside a bigger housing.  I thought of getting aftermarket wide ranges but then decided to get kinky with this TV Jones shebang. 

JerkMoans

DrCornelius said:

I bet that sounds epic,  well played sir.

Ta!  Haven't had chance to really let rip, yet.  Once I'm done selling my surplus labour there will be noise.  Lots of noise.

JerkMoans

lovestrat74 said:

Have your 501th fret on me - wow!

I shall call it 'the Levis'

meltedbuzzbox

Are you going to make it orange?

JerkMoans

meltedbuzzbox said:

Are you going to make it orange?

Ha!  I doubt it.  I think it looks pretty fine au naturel.

meltedbuzzbox

:-( 

JerkMoans

meltedbuzzbox said:

:-( 

Knowing me it’ll be up in the classifieds by Sunday; someone else can disfigure it  

BigMonka

That looks amazing.
Although it just needs...

BigMonka

But how does it sound compared to the modern WRHBs?

JerkMoans

BigMonka said:

But how does it sound compared to the modern WRHBs?

Makes the thing come alive.  Twangier, more resonant, far more definition in the notes, more top end, great growl when you dig in.  More more more, really

BigMonka

JerkMoans said:

BigMonka said:

But how does it sound compared to the modern WRHBs?

Makes the thing come alive.  Twangier, more resonant, far more definition in the notes, more top end, great growl when you dig in.  More more more, really

Sounds really tempting! I've got Mojo '52 single coils in my thinline at the moment, but I'd like to get a fatter/fuller sound so thinking of switching the neck pickup out for something else - these Filtertrons sound like they'll get me there whilst also retaining some of the kick-ass-twangy-tele-ness.

shuikit

Looks great!  Now imagine it with a bigsby....

JerkMoans

Necro bump.  After a sojourn in the v talented hands of SC Relics / @lonestar the project comes together.

Behold the Tangotastic Tele Thinline Super Deluxe Lite.

Needs a bit if tweaking / set up but VERY pleased with the results.  What say you?

fretfinder

Mmm orange eh? Very brave sir, a most striking instrument! Looks like SC Relics did a great job. 

Enjoy. 

JerkMoans

fretfinder said:

Mmm orange eh? Very brave sir, a most striking instrument! Looks like SC Relics did a great job. 

Enjoy. 

'Striking'   It'll look well next to my cock pink jazzmaster

They did a fine piece of work indeed.