Pine telecaster - She lives!

guitarcookie1

Had some time today to start putting this together:

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Pine tele body sourced from this parish. 

Neck is a Mighty Mite second (tuner holes are too big apparently). 

Pickups by Irongear. 

Bridge & tuners by Wilkinson. 

Other bits 'n bobs from the parts drawer & Axetec.

jd0272

Pink socks? Or are they slipper socks?

You'll have to keep this one going so we know how the pine translates into sonic goodness. Nice.

guitarcookie1

jd0272;151483" said:

Pink socks? Or are they slipper socks?

You'll have to keep this one going so we know how the pine translates into sonic goodness. Nice.

Pink toe ends on the socks (thought I'd cropped them out).

Wiring to be done Wednesday hopefully

jd0272

I cheated and bought pre-assembled wiring  

Deadman

Pine, just as Leo intended

Jez6345789

Hi

I am very interested to hear the finished result, I have erred several times on the Pine Tele.

I saw Bill Kerchin some years ago not long after he got the Rick Kelly Pine Tele and I was

really  keen to put one together. Then I read up abit and from what Bill had said it had come from

really old wood, 80 plus years and the changes to the resin and structure after that long is going to give 

a very different guitar to kiln dry commercial Pine. In the end back then I had no source for really old pine 

so shelved it.

Interesting to hear it and get your views over Alder, Ash etc

guitarcookie1

This is 60 year old pine apparently.

The only other tele I have to compare it to is my ash cabronita but I'll do my best...

randomhandclaps

Rumour has it parts of David Dickinson are made out of 60 year old pine - with a deep mahogany stain obviously.

JookyChap

That's looking cool...looking forward to this

Roland

That's a nice piece of timber. I look forward to hearing what it sounds like

hywelg

Jez6345789 said:

 I had no source for really old pine so shelved it.

Ha ha....

Jez6345789

No pun intended

:-)

impmann

I've built a couple of Pinecasters. Even with cheap, 'modern' timber they sounded great. They did sound different acoustically and electrically to my other 'regular' Teles.

usedtobe

Cool!

WezV

On the wood thing, you can clearly see this example has good straight grain with lots of grain lines close together and few intrusions.

That is exactly what i would be looking for if I wanted to make a guitar from pine.   It doesn't really matter too much if it comes from old stock or new kiln dried stuff, you will find suitable and unsuitable peices from either.... but its definitely easier to find the qualities you want in old stock.  A tree needs to be able to grow very slowly to get those qualities, that is not something most of the modern pine growers can accomodate

guitarcookie1

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Finally, she's all assembled & set up

JookyChap

Nice job How does it sound?

guitarcookie1

It's got an almost semi-solid type sound to it if that makes sense?

The guitar is as light as a feather and this comes across in the tone, certainly compared to my Cabronita.

My pedalboard is in transition at the minute so I've only really played it clean, I'm liking it a lot but I wonder if the pickups are right for it...

DannyP

Looks great.

ThePrettyDamned

That's well nice.

usedtobe

Looks great!