A finished project

spellcaster · Post by **spellcaster** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 3:17 am

This is my parts Esquire, based around a completely refurbished 59 Telecaster neck and a three piece maple body. It has a triple tapped Reilander custom wound pickup, Wilkinson bridge, Fender 50's pickguard, control panel, ashtray, and knobs, 250K pots with greasebucket tone circuit, and original 59 parts including serial numbered neck plate, jack cup, strap knobs, tuner ferrules, and threaded bridge saddles. Tuners are new Gotoh SD-91's and the paint is seafoam green.

theshadowofseattle · Post by **theshadowofseattle** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 3:31 am

Holy shit. That's amazing, dude!

cur · Post by **cur** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 3:54 am

like +1

classy

HNB · Post by **HNB** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 5:07 am

Sexy! Nice work! Maple body heavy?

spellcaster · Post by **spellcaster** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 5:42 am

HNB wrote:Sexy! Nice work! Maple body heavy?

The maple body's reasonably lightweight, probably on the high side of seven pounds. I owned a 59 Tele a few years back and with it's swamp ash body. it was the lightest solid-bocy i ever owned. This is Canadian Broadleaf maple, and I assume there some differences of density in some of the varieties of the maple species. it's got a fairly bright resonant tone played acoustically.

Thanks, I appreciate the comments from all you guys.

apreswho · Post by **apreswho** » Sat Jan 25, 2014 4:58 pm

looks beautful! So well done!

DGNR8 · Post by **DGNR8** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 3:35 am

Stunner. I was just looking into Esquire colors and leaning toward Sonic Blue.