Snakehead Tele, refinished

paulnb57 · January 2023

Corvus said:

^^ looks great with the ashtray on.

The neck's now done and packed for post now. We're going for original style with no bushes; 1/4" tuners are a nice push-fit and we can always counterbore it later if ever needed -

Fabulous! Thanks Bill

paulnb57 · January 2023

Neck arrived yesterday tea time, so later it got assembled
Nice packaging from Bill @Corvus no bubble wrap, wrapped in Jute and in a thick cardboard tube, very nice! And MrsB is going to sew something from it!….
Neck quality is superb, everything I hoped for, nice fat but no too fat profile, sublime fretwork, if I wanted a custom build thats where I would go.

Fitted the tuners and then marked and drilled the neck to body screw holes, stung it up and the nut is pretty much perfect, gave it a rough set up, no buzzes no fretwork needed, fabulous. Its being left to stand for a day or two to settle, then it will be set up proper.

TheMarlin · January 2023

I had a Snakehead build a while back. Stupidly sold it. Was an absolutely fabulous guitar!

photek · January 2023

Brilliant! Pop a demo up once it’s all settled in

lovestrat74 · January 2023

Looks great Paul! I know where to go for a quality bespoke neck now

Teyeplayer · January 2023

I only have to look at the curve of that neck to know it’s perfect. Looks a very comfortable handful. Great work both @paulnb57 and Bill @Corvus.

Corvus · January 2023

Excellent, looks good that Paul, and glad it went in there without fuss

And cheers @Teyeplayer

TTony · January 2023

That’s all looking good to me.

If space is too tight for the mini toggle, could you use a couple of push/push or push/pull pots instead?

Or, could you use a couple of rocker switches, maybe on the top edge of the bridge plate?

paulnb57 · January 2023

TTony said:

That’s all looking good to me.

If space is too tight for the mini toggle, could you use a couple of push/push or push/pull pots instead?

Or, could you use a couple of rocker switches, maybe on the top edge of the bridge plate?

Some good ideas Tony, I think Im going to sack the Eldred wiring (I have another Tele with it) and replace the tone with a pull pot to coil tap and remake the control plate

The more I look at it the more I dislike the paint colour, its a bit dull and boring, so I can see it all coming apart again for some colour….

andy_k · January 2023

A relicced Bone white, with a bakelite pickguard would do that some justice.
Also, a split coil with some sort of exaggerated tone cap works well, I did it to one of my Jeff Beck style Esquires. ( actually I did a single vol pot, with a pull to activate wah tone, on a full size humbucker, but you have the coil split option on your vol knob )
I like it.

WezV · January 2023

andy_k said:
A relicced Bone white, with a bakelite pickguard would do that some justice.

He's not wrong!

rze99 · January 2023

White all day

paulnb57 · January 2023

Snakehead in White Satin….

Scratchplate is not quite there, I need to make a new control plate and ditch the mini toggle, just a volume and tone….

TTony · January 2023

paulnb57 said:

The more I look at it the more I dislike the paint colour, its a bit dull and boring, so I can see it all coming apart again for some colour….

How about white?

White could look good ....

DrBob · January 2023

That is now looking absolutely stunning

Corvus · January 2023

That's nice, the white suits it very well.

Ddigger · January 2023

I took the factory tour in Corona in 2018 while visiting relatives in Longbeach.

Here is a link to a thread from then...
http://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/131893/

There was a corridor with guitars on display and here is one of them...

https://i.imgur.com/dsBB9Au.jpg

paulnb57 · January 2023

Ddigger said:

I took the factory tour in Corona in 2018 while visiting relatives in Longbeach.

Here is a link to a thread from then...
http://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/131893/

There was a corridor with guitars on display and here is one of them...

https://i.imgur.com/dsBB9Au.jpg

Wow!

paulnb57 · June 2023

I didnt really get along with the white and ummed and ahhed before refinishing, deciding to match the colour to our new caravan…
With the exception ot the bridge ashtray cover, all the aged hardware has been replaced and I made a new scratchlate and control plate…

lovestrat74 · June 2023

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