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Here it is with a parts caster tele that I have which weighs a tonne!
There was a beaten-up Classic Vibe '50s Blond Telecaster for sale just up the road which made me realise what I had been missing. The price and the state of it encouraged me to have a go at more than minor adjustments and modifications myself - and forums such as this one gave me knowledge, possibilities and options. Here it is today:
I've since tried loads of teles and recently (like so many people seem to have done) settled on a near mint 2011 Baja which is just an ideal guitar:
I can't decide what colour pickguard suits it best - but after seeing the sunburst from @markslade07 I am very jealous and wonder if mine could approach that look!
I've come to the tele-party late but I won't be leaving any time soon ...
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
The beauty of them is, you can stick with the same basic formula, but change pickup combinations, body woods and get different sounding guitars.
My artisans are standard ss, twin p90 and tv jones neck, with tele bridge. I've also got a 3 gold foil tele style from Asher and an Eggle Oz being made, which will be double wide range hum bucker.
Ive shown it before, but here is the tele to rule them all. Mahogany body, Koa top, insane Birdseye neck, loaded nocasters. I'll be forever grateful to John at Peach for putting this aside for me when it came in.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/97ftpxo24t67jrl/EFEF57AE-A6AA-4579-A343-F782BB47B07F.jpeg?raw=1
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7z0s4286lx3zig4/E22BDC89-3556-469C-B742-F3D42B96E266.jpeg?raw=1
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pjyltp52ueool5w/952F1D32-E780-46A0-8F78-19C14A8E97E4.jpeg?raw=1
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8go8i96s7jzr4vu/45B221B0-8552-4BDD-9C66-916516A89BC5.jpeg?raw=1
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2mmqzw87xd2yvkt/1B357A80-A753-44F3-8D9A-2787251135A7.jpeg?raw=1
Currently I own "too many" according to @meltedbuzzbox but they are:
"The Black Tele" - I've had this for nearly 20 years, after importing it from New York. It was an eBay purchase (when it was .com only) and arrived with a 1972 Fender Neck (rosweood), 1972 bridge pickup, aftermarket black pickguard and a DiMarzio Super Distortion shoehorned into the neck position. The original neck bit the dust (met a sticky end courtesy of an ill-advised rock n roll flourish under too low a lighting gantry...) and the pickups were diabolical. The bridge pickup went in the bin (wish I'd kept it to flog to someone with more money than sense now) and the black pickguard and pickup now adorn a mate's guitar. Its now got an Allparts neck, SD pickups (Broadcaster set), a 1983 Fender single ply guard and an AVRI control plate assembly. Its a bitsa but its one of the best Tele's I've played.
(Shit pic... I know)
"Marriott" - my homage to the late-great Steve Marriott and the sunburst Tele he used for the end of the Small Faces (and used to record Odgens etc). His guitar was a 64/65 example that he swapped for his pink Gretsch, that he had hot-rodded with a Bill Lawrence neck pickup. Its a truly unique sounding thing - listen to Song of a Baker, as he used it to record that and you can hear that woofy, thick neck pickup sound during the solo. This one is another bitsa I built - @rexter supplied the *utterly incredible* body for this and the bridge pickup is a wonderful Mojo unit that utterly screams.
"Greenie" - aka the old Blackstar Workshop Hack. I built this for testing the amps before they were dispatched for loan stock etc out of a properly ruinous Mexican Fender body I acquired very cheaply... there was a reason, it had been hacked out for a bridge humbucker and was painted *badly* in thick black household/car paint. I stripped it back, finished it in a green stain (because I had some left over from another project) and then topped it with Tru Oil. Its worn a few necks... one bit the dust in an accident and now has a Mexican Classic Player (I think) one. Its got Mojo pickups - Strat neck pickup and a 52 Bridge - connected to a four way switch. Its been retired from active duties in the workshop and now lives at home...
"The Tablecaster" - yup, the body was originally a pine table that I cut into a Tele shape. The flame-maple neck is one of those cheap Chinese ones you see advertised and think "that won't be any good"... and in fact is bloody brilliant. Its got a Mojo "Esquire" pickup and is ridiculous fun. I've gigged this *a lot*.
"Seven Worlds Collide" - I won't elaborate any further on the name, but suffice to say seven sources of the bits. Body from our very own @DrBob, a PAF clone in the neck and a Luker bridge pickup (ebay - bloody good, actually) along with a Warman neck (probably too chunky for me, but bloody great quality). Its still a work in progress but has the potential to be a great guitar...
So yup... I'm a Teleholic. And I can't help building them...