Telecaster Mockups

[SKC Willie]

I have an extra SX neck so I've decided to make a guitar out of it. I'm planning on buying a body from rondomusic in a little over a week and I'm having trouble deciding on colors. I wouldn't mind spending a little bit of dough on the color of the paint but whatever paint I use, I would like to be able to buy a clear coat locally that doesn't cost $16 a can. I really don't want to spend $50 on a finish.

Anyways, I want a tele bridge pickup with a Gibson style humbucker in the neck. I also am pretty set on the warmoth style guard as well as adding a Jazzmaster/Jaguar tremolo system. I liked the bigsby on my tele is just made it too damn heavy. Here are my mock ups, which do you think looks best?

[dezb1]

I like the bottom one

[Billy3000]

Comp orange FTW! Seriously, that looks awesome. do it!

[gaybear]

i voted brown, cause i've always wanted one, and because i hate relicing with every bit of my soul

[Ankhanu]

I voted pank, but the brown is really awesome too. I wanted to like the comp orange, but, I just don't.

[Gabriel]

I voted white, I'm not a huge relic fan nor white with tort but I think it looked best.

If it were my guitar I'd use a Black/White/Black Pickguard though.

[stewart]

they all look very busy visually to me.

[SKC Willie]

i voted brown, cause i've always wanted one, and because i hate relicing with every bit of my soul

I'm really not a big relic fan either. I love the look of old beat up guitars, I just figure that if I relic guitars the finish doens't have to be as good while I learn to get better at finishing.

they all look very bust visually to me.

I see that for sure. The comp orange was a last second idea it has always been my favorite finish so I figured I would do a mock up to see what it was like on a tele. The thing is, I'm pretty set on those features and I don't know how to make it look less busy. (other than the comp orange)

[Lucamo]

A Jag trem on a tele would be amazing to try!

So excited to see this come together.

Where did you make these mockups?

[SKC Willie]

Tele builder

Then I photoshopped a jazzy trem off of the offset builder. I also used the comp stripes from the builder on this site as well. (Right under the log out screen there is a builder link you can use to make Mustangs!)

[hotrodperlmutter]

too much chrome.

i would say ditch the bigsby bridge plate, and do just a mustang bridge and an open bridge pickup like ge smith tele stylee.

[Gabriel]

too much chrome.

i would say ditch the bigsby bridge plate, and do just a mustang bridge and an open bridge pickup like ge smith tele stylee.

+1

[SKC Willie]

Ehh, I HATE those bridge plates. The base/route for a tele pickup needs to be covered, imho.

I just couldn't make a guitar like that and be happy with it. I did think about doing a tele deluxe style guard with jazzmaster pickups and a jazzy trem. Maybe I should do a mock up of that.

Also, I posted this on the tele forum too. Lots of great info over there but the stuff on this site is definitely a lot more fun to read. Anyways, on the polo over at tdpri, comp orange is winning. WHAT?!

Totally assbackwards.

[hotrodperlmutter]

Ehh, I HATE those bridge plates.

you mean lack of a bridge plate? or are you talking about the duo-sonic bridge?

I just couldn't make a guitar like that and be happy with it.

lulz, did you even look at wtf you posted?