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Black seems an unusual colour for a Telemaster though.
Here’s most of the rest of the ‘kit’:
https://i.imgur.com/sHhR2Jb.jpg
Pickups came from this forum, as did the neck.
Hardware would have come from www.axesrus.co.uk and www.axecaster.co.uk (as have the bridge and switch currently en route to me).
Body came from www.guitarbuild.co.uk as will the scratch plate.
Finish is coming from www.crimsonguitars.com
https://i.imgur.com/dprdS7m.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/DALXp3W.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/GNmjMZH.jpg
Black with a maple board (the birds eye maple neck is a thing of beauty). Lightly-worn finish to the body to let the grain pattern show through a bit.
https://i.imgur.com/cUGSfVM.jpg
After one coat & dried for two days:
https://i.imgur.com/9NpsQW8.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/4yOJTuj.jpg
Using Crimson Guitars black Stunning Stain for this, looks a bit brown in the picture but much more black in the flesh. Will keep going over the next few days until we get a nice deep black colour.
Not sure whether to keep the colour consistent or rub back the wear areas to get a bit of an an aged effect?
https://i.imgur.com/fAZRNlX.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/L6sPBq4.jpg
Now starting on the finishing oil top-coat to make it nice & shiney (it’s also bringing out the black colour more too).
Did you source the lipstick pickups / scratchplate yourself? Can I ask where you got them?
The scratchplate is a standard Strat one.
The pickups I got from axesrus many years ago, they don’t seem to do them anymore but GFS might..
Found out, after the first few coats of oil were quite sticky, that it really benefits from applying a couple of coats with wet & dry paper, cos after that each one went on smoothly and dried out flat.
Final finish coat was with furniture wax - top tip with this is the wax will melt any decals you might have put on the guitar hoping they would be protected by the wax layer, as happened to the pin up decal that was on the back...
https://i.imgur.com/msUFvUu.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/uRWK0sY.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/5zPVhQc.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/jXD4ST5.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/NCgGWk5.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/Lqm74xS.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/0Ctm7ZF.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/aIS1J5g.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/NOhFEOG.jpg
I’m really happy with the way it’s turned out - plays well but needs a bit of a fret dress, a couple of high frets mean the action is a little high.
The bridge pickup is up is now an Oil City Liquidator rather than the Bareknuckle Boss as planned as it balances better with the Gibson mini-humbuckers.
The three-way switch gives me almost a Tele and LP Deluxe in one guitar, the middle pickup is almost bridge pickup-like, and you can get a good Strat-like neck/middle combination too if you wedge the switch in between and back off the volume.
Locking tuners are a revelation, not used them before.
Going to to swap the brass saddles for some steel ones as there’s a metallic “zing” that I want to get rid of.
Might also swap the mini-humbuckers for P90’s at some point in the future but not immediately.