I will soon take delivery of an aluminium neck per the below pic. These necks are set up to fit fender style bodies, Strats, Tele's and Jags. Now I'm sure those measurements that these guitars share are probably shared amongst other brands too (??).
At first i was set on making an Esquire...buying a cheap squire tele and slapping the neck on...buying a good bridge pickup and new scratchplate to cover the neck routing as well. Then, if necessary, in the future slowely upgrade the hardware.
But then i started seeing other bolt on guitar shapes, some weird tele shapes and offsets...now i'm open to more ideas of what this guiatr could be.
I do like the idea of a 1 pickup guitar though, single coil or P90 and not really keen on a trem...so anyone got any ideas for me?
for ref, this is the neck:
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The Tele Cabronita style suits a single pickup config...
as far as bigsby's go...already covered.
https://m.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_te_60_pearloid_b_stock.htm?ref=mrl_a_1
http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb102/flanging_fred/Music/Squier_Super-Sonic_001_zps2lcoxemf.jpg
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other option is to get a body made up to fit perfectly...which although more expensive might be a good option and may make the guitar a real keeper.
Strat pocket, and brushed aluminium hardware. You might not find a brushed jazzmaster bridge so you may have to Bigsby it...
Fuck, don't do that, get a Tele body, wudtone it black magic woman, and ask ash for a high output tele bridge pickup. It'll bloody roar! You could use a brushed aluminium Bigsby, too, without invoking the wrath of the gods. Although @bucket may never talk to you again...
Again, like last time, if the neck isn't for you, let me know.
The neck is made by Bastins guitars in the US. He did a run of 30 or 40 pre-orders. I believe once he finishes the pre-orders his going to start selling them on a regular basis.