Al Heeley Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 Am I out of order adding this Tele to the build diary page? [size=1](-note- not a commercial project, Mike bought all the bits and i just put them all together for him.)[/size] This was the start of a new project, first lead guitar in a while. Scored a lovely piece of Ash off ebay, beautifully planed and jointed. This will be a custom 3 pickup tele for Mike, my fellow guitarist in our 2 bands. The plan is still forming: leaning towards Gibbo mini bucker in the neck, SD hotrails in the bridge, something nice in the middle that can be blended in/out with a third ctrl knob and phase switched. 5-way strat-type blade pup switch. Natural Satin tru-oil finish. Should be a very versatile guitar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Heeley Posted January 2, 2009 Author Share Posted January 2, 2009 Some progress today. Belly cut carved into back, bridge pup and ctrl cavity routed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Heeley Posted January 2, 2009 Author Share Posted January 2, 2009 Ordering in some of the hardware, here's a little mockup. Scratchplate needs cutting for a SD mini bucker in the neck and a hot rails in the centre position. Bridge will be an SD vintage stack tele pup. Still chasing round for a decent neck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Heeley Posted January 2, 2009 Author Share Posted January 2, 2009 Just been working out the wiring, here's the plan. A 5-way strat type selector with the addition of a DPDT on-on mini toggle swsitch to reverse polarity of the mid pickup. A standard tele-type single master vol and single master tone pot set up completes the circuit. The idea is to get a versatile set of tones being able to use the mid pup in reverse polarity to get strat-type rhythm tones as well as full-on blends of mid with neck or bridge (as well as mid on its own). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Heeley Posted January 2, 2009 Author Share Posted January 2, 2009 That just about wraps up this project. Wiring works a treat as per the schematic I posted above, particularly the neck and mid pup with the mid out of phase, a really nice powerful jangly rhythm sound and the mini bucker at the neck is a beauty - warm and thick for some tasty blues. The bridge pup is aggressive, loud and biting, just as it should be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nash Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 pretty stunning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorick Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 Sweet. Where did you source the neck from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Heeley Posted January 2, 2009 Author Share Posted January 2, 2009 Its a Mighty Mite neck from a US internet dealer, pretty good price 6 months ago when we still got a good exchange rate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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