Telecaster Project (pics inside & suggestions needed).

Painting? Routing? Set-up tips? Or just straight-up making a guitar from scratch? Post here, and post pics!

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Telecaster Project (pics inside & suggestions needed).

Post by snowman »

Hey all,

So that saga guitar kit i posted about a couple of days ago has arrived and I've already started work. I sketched on the tele headstock shape with a pencil and cut it out today with a jigsaw (all i had). I've been spending most of the day sanding the edges and getting it as close to a real tele as possible. It's still a little rough but it's getting there.

Pretty open minded about the finish at this stage, but I'd like to get a black pickguard and go down the brice springsteen route. Any suggestions?

I'm also planning on upgrading the pickups when it's finished, so does anyone have any suggestions? I'd like a general nice tele sound that can handle a bit of beef, a nice graham coxon sound or whatever.

Cheers for looking and feel free to point me in the right direction, I've never built my own guitar before.

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Post by cur »

So far so good. The, I hope I don't fuck up the headstock part is done. So all down hill from here.

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Post by HNB »

^ That.


It looks like it will be a fun project! :)