Maple Tele start to finish (lots of photos)

holyCATS1415 · Post by **holyCATS1415** » Thu Jul 31, 2014 3:16 pm

Made this a few weeks ago for a guy that I work with. Maple body, maple neck, ebony fret markers, mahogany skunk stripe, pickup by toez10, finished in tru oil.
I freehanded the headstock and body shape, so it's not an exact telecaster exact shape, but I am pretty happy with the way it turned out.

brainfur · Post by **brainfur** » Thu Jul 31, 2014 3:22 pm

beautiful! thats really close for freehand work

holyCATS1415 · Post by **holyCATS1415** » Thu Jul 31, 2014 3:26 pm

Thanks! I also made the body a lot thinner than a normal tele, otherwise it would have weighed a ton.

brainfur · Post by **brainfur** » Thu Jul 31, 2014 3:28 pm

holyCATS1415 wrote:Thanks! I also made the body a lot thinner than a normal tele, otherwise it would have weighed a ton.

yeah i cant imagine a full size maple telly-- would be heavier than an old les paul

cur · Post by **cur** » Thu Jul 31, 2014 4:25 pm

holySHIT holyCATS, that's nice!

You have anymore truss rod installation pics

sunshiner · Post by **sunshiner** » Thu Jul 31, 2014 4:28 pm

That's a great biuld. How thick is the body? Looks like 38 mm like Mustang. I'm working on a guitar that will have 38 mm body at the moment, but have a lot of problems with it. Mostly because I don't have a workshop, so I'm building in the kitchen, what is totally inconvinient.

holyCATS1415 · Post by **holyCATS1415** » Thu Jul 31, 2014 9:18 pm

Thanks! I used a router and a table jig that a friend of mine made to cut the slot for the truss rod, I forgot to take pictures that day though. The body is 1 1/4" thick.

theshadowofseattle · Post by **theshadowofseattle** » Thu Jul 31, 2014 10:04 pm

Was the fret-placement math fun? I bet it was fun.

cur · Post by **cur** » Fri Aug 01, 2014 1:18 am

Ther are charts for that. All you have to do is measure.

holyCATS1415 · Post by **holyCATS1415** » Fri Aug 01, 2014 3:52 pm

fret placement just involves a set of digital calipers and a chart. Tedious but not too bad.

theshadowofseattle · Post by **theshadowofseattle** » Fri Aug 01, 2014 10:11 pm

That's no fun.

JohnnyTheBoy · Post by **JohnnyTheBoy** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 12:09 am

That neck looks superb!..especially as youve free handed the headstock...

Zack · Post by **Zack** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 10:00 pm

amazing work as always dude. the skunk stripe looks great.

charts are good for quick scale length placement, but with the maths you could make some odd scale lengths.