ezbass Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 This is a thing of beauty, the nitro crazing adds a really nice organic look to it, properly NOS/Closet Classic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin_lindsay Posted January 11, 2013 Author Share Posted January 11, 2013 (edited) I've only got my iPhone at present to take video clips. I'll get some playing clips posted later, but for now: http://youtu.be/wdW2ADGddD8 Edited January 15, 2013 by kevin_lindsay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin_lindsay Posted January 12, 2013 Author Share Posted January 12, 2013 Here's the Tele with my gorgeous sounding Flynn Amps 5E3 Tweed Deluxe. Great combination [IMG]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y289/kevin_lindsay/51C77EC4-5352-4B63-B046-71711679A6C4-259-0000001BCD19AF8A.jpg[/IMG] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin_lindsay Posted January 20, 2013 Author Share Posted January 20, 2013 (edited) Here's the crazing on the rear of the headstock. This was achieved by leaving the guitar in its case in my car during the sub-zero freezing temperature then bringing it in to a toasty warm apartment. Looks cool though! [IMG]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y289/kevin_lindsay/51AC875D-3E60-4E1B-8572-18580F3087FB-792-000000A33737029E.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y289/kevin_lindsay/F972AB07-531F-4CD9-9573-7A3CC1F8A0B7-792-000000A332484A3E.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y289/kevin_lindsay/44861C1D-FD73-4054-A8CB-9A0CE82574D7-792-000000A32CD153D0.jpg[/IMG] Edited January 20, 2013 by kevin_lindsay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkHeart Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 i normally hate Tele`s but this,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyjr1515 Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 This is a very beautiful and very skilled build. Lovely, lovely job Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin_lindsay Posted January 25, 2013 Author Share Posted January 25, 2013 Thanks guys! My brother used it on a couple of gigs last weekend, and in the studio on Wednesday. He has now commissioned me to make another one. Looks like I'm going to be busy again for the next few months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin_lindsay Posted February 3, 2013 Author Share Posted February 3, 2013 The Tele is going off to a new home today! My brother has convinced me to let him have it - he's going to fund the building of another one so I can have one for myself still. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezbass Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Not sure I'd've let the first one go, your sibling must be very persuasive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sblueplanet Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Amazing! I bet Summers himself would happily play this one. He actually used one of his CS replicas during the Police reunion tour as the original is now too fragile and valuable. I have a lefty Fender jazz body needing a refin if you do commissions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethFlatlands Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 Just rediscovered this thread as I'm doing up an old homemade tele I've had lying round for years. Sadly, most of it is way beyond me but it's an inspiring read anyway. If you can do all this, I can manage the small number of jobs that my guitar needs doing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezbass Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 Nice to see this thread resurrected. I love the look of this style of Tele but I'm also a fan of the Thinline look too; oh my look at what Fender have done, way too rich for my blood (as I only play 6 string at home) at £1400, but wow! [IMG]http://i308.photobucket.com/albums/kk344/ezbass/acea00d04df7eb3593627e4662abe944_zps5622de6c.jpg[/IMG] http://www.fender.com/series/american-deluxe/american-deluxe-telecaster-thinline-maple-fingerboard-3-color-sunburst/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin_lindsay Posted December 15, 2013 Author Share Posted December 15, 2013 (edited) Thanks for the new comments guys. The Olympic White Jazz Bass which I recently completed turned out really well. http://basschat.co.uk/topic/217598-olympic-white-6662-style-jazz-bass-build/ A guitarist friend of mine is a huge Rush fan, so I'm looking at doing a replica Arctic White Gibson 335 like Alex Lifeson's own guitar. That'll be a big job. Edited December 15, 2013 by kevin_lindsay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezbass Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 [quote name='kevin_lindsay' timestamp='1387122490' post='2308384'] A guitarist friend of mine is a huge Rush fan, so I'm looking at doing a replica Arctic White Gibson 335 like Alex Lifeson's own guitar. That'll be a big job. [/quote]Oh my! There'll be more drooling at Ez Towers then. That Jazz is lovely BTW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin_lindsay Posted August 18, 2014 Author Share Posted August 18, 2014 Yippee! The Andy Summers Tele is coming back home. My brother loves it, but he never paid for it! Hahaha. Taking advantage of his big brother's generosity. So, I'm getting it back, and my brother can simply borrow it if he needs to in the future. I'm looking at a new amp - I like this by Stevie Flynn: http://youtu.be/mPSor5mLnTA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deksawyer Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Kevin, if you do ever want to sell this, the guitarist in my band (www.thepolis.co.uk) would be very interested in getting hold of it. If you don't want to sell it, maybe you can give him a wee shot sometime..... cheers D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin_lindsay Posted August 19, 2014 Author Share Posted August 19, 2014 Hi mate, I might pop through to your gig on 6th September at the Citrus Club in Edinburgh (bringing the tele with me) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin_lindsay Posted August 24, 2014 Author Share Posted August 24, 2014 Well, I've now got the guitar back. I'd forgotten just how well it had turned out - it plays and sounds great. The brass bridge plate and saddles give the guitar a really smooth tone. There's no top end "harshness". the finish has crazed just as I had hoped it would. There's a few knocks on the body now which gives the guitar a nicely "played-in" look. I had rolled the fingerboard edges befoe applying the lacquer. Here's some pics showing the lacquer crazing. This hasn't been achieved with freezing or cutting. Rather, the way the lacquer is applied can influence this. On the rear of the headstock the lacquer is nicely lined: Before [URL=http://s7.photobucket.com/user/kevin_lindsay/media/Andy%20Summers%20tribute%20Tele/C226C882-5C63-4914-B055-64C71B1C7D91-759-000000E3F5AD31DD_1.jpg.html][IMG]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y289/kevin_lindsay/Andy%20Summers%20tribute%20Tele/C226C882-5C63-4914-B055-64C71B1C7D91-759-000000E3F5AD31DD_1.jpg[/IMG][/URL] and now: [URL=http://s7.photobucket.com/user/kevin_lindsay/media/Andy%20Summers%20tribute%20Tele/20140824_204531.jpg.html][IMG]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y289/kevin_lindsay/Andy%20Summers%20tribute%20Tele/20140824_204531.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s7.photobucket.com/user/kevin_lindsay/media/Andy%20Summers%20tribute%20Tele/20140824_203116.jpg.html][IMG]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y289/kevin_lindsay/Andy%20Summers%20tribute%20Tele/20140824_203116.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s7.photobucket.com/user/kevin_lindsay/media/Andy%20Summers%20tribute%20Tele/20140824_203108.jpg.html][IMG]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y289/kevin_lindsay/Andy%20Summers%20tribute%20Tele/20140824_203108.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin_lindsay Posted August 24, 2014 Author Share Posted August 24, 2014 On the body, when the guitar was completed it looked pristine. [URL=http://s7.photobucket.com/user/kevin_lindsay/media/Andy%20Summers%20tribute%20Tele/9DC6B5CE-D335-4E7E-A2AD-D5E1FED048D7-759-000000E3DBD02180.jpg.html][IMG]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y289/kevin_lindsay/Andy%20Summers%20tribute%20Tele/9DC6B5CE-D335-4E7E-A2AD-D5E1FED048D7-759-000000E3DBD02180.jpg[/IMG][/URL] now, the face of the guitar is totally crazed: [URL=http://s7.photobucket.com/user/kevin_lindsay/media/Andy%20Summers%20tribute%20Tele/20140824_094050.jpg.html][IMG]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y289/kevin_lindsay/Andy%20Summers%20tribute%20Tele/20140824_094050.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s7.photobucket.com/user/kevin_lindsay/media/Andy%20Summers%20tribute%20Tele/20140824_101532.jpg.html][IMG]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y289/kevin_lindsay/Andy%20Summers%20tribute%20Tele/20140824_101532.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s7.photobucket.com/user/kevin_lindsay/media/Andy%20Summers%20tribute%20Tele/20140824_101552.jpg.html][IMG]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y289/kevin_lindsay/Andy%20Summers%20tribute%20Tele/20140824_101552.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s7.photobucket.com/user/kevin_lindsay/media/Andy%20Summers%20tribute%20Tele/20140824_170711.jpg.html][IMG]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y289/kevin_lindsay/Andy%20Summers%20tribute%20Tele/20140824_170711.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s7.photobucket.com/user/kevin_lindsay/media/Andy%20Summers%20tribute%20Tele/20140824_202809.jpg.html][IMG]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y289/kevin_lindsay/Andy%20Summers%20tribute%20Tele/20140824_202809.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin_lindsay Posted August 24, 2014 Author Share Posted August 24, 2014 More pics [URL=http://s7.photobucket.com/user/kevin_lindsay/media/Andy%20Summers%20tribute%20Tele/20140824_202829.jpg.html][IMG]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y289/kevin_lindsay/Andy%20Summers%20tribute%20Tele/20140824_202829.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s7.photobucket.com/user/kevin_lindsay/media/Andy%20Summers%20tribute%20Tele/20140824_202849.jpg.html][IMG]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y289/kevin_lindsay/Andy%20Summers%20tribute%20Tele/20140824_202849.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s7.photobucket.com/user/kevin_lindsay/media/Andy%20Summers%20tribute%20Tele/20140824_202858.jpg.html][IMG]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y289/kevin_lindsay/Andy%20Summers%20tribute%20Tele/20140824_202858.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezbass Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Love this guitar. That's checkering up nicely and without any processing too - cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin_lindsay Posted August 25, 2014 Author Share Posted August 25, 2014 Thanks mate. another thing I did after having the instrument assembled was to slightly amend the bridge saddles. I had previously mentioned that I had sanded the sharp edges to make them smoother to the touch, when the saddles arrived, the centre holes looked like this: [URL=http://s7.photobucket.com/user/kevin_lindsay/media/Andy%20Summers%20tribute%20Tele/6149791C-1D18-4724-BFF5-2998D8A0923B-759-000000E3B68F7FF6.jpg.html][IMG]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y289/kevin_lindsay/Andy%20Summers%20tribute%20Tele/6149791C-1D18-4724-BFF5-2998D8A0923B-759-000000E3B68F7FF6.jpg[/IMG][/URL] I gently filed and sanded the "points" to give a smoother feel when resting your hand on the bridge. It also meant the holes were amended to look more like the original ones on Andy's Telecaster. Here's the "after" picture: [URL=http://s7.photobucket.com/user/kevin_lindsay/media/Andy%20Summers%20tribute%20Tele/20140824_170711.jpg.html][IMG]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y289/kevin_lindsay/Andy%20Summers%20tribute%20Tele/20140824_170711.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin_lindsay Posted October 19, 2014 Author Share Posted October 19, 2014 Some arty pics of the Tele: [URL=http://s7.photobucket.com/user/kevin_lindsay/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20141015_120145.jpg.html][IMG]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y289/kevin_lindsay/Mobile%20Uploads/20141015_120145.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s7.photobucket.com/user/kevin_lindsay/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20141015_120202.jpg.html][IMG]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y289/kevin_lindsay/Mobile%20Uploads/20141015_120202.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s7.photobucket.com/user/kevin_lindsay/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20141015_120333.jpg.html][IMG]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y289/kevin_lindsay/Mobile%20Uploads/20141015_120333.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s7.photobucket.com/user/kevin_lindsay/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20141015_122034.jpg.html][IMG]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y289/kevin_lindsay/Mobile%20Uploads/20141015_122034.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s7.photobucket.com/user/kevin_lindsay/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20141019_075726.jpg.html][IMG]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y289/kevin_lindsay/Mobile%20Uploads/20141019_075726.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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