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So a couple months ago I bought this epic piece of shit GFX Groove Factory telecaster at a pawn shop for like 80 bucks, deciding to make a decent guitar out of it. Now, months later, after a purposely fucked up paint job, a horrible job on a neck stain, and and old squier strat pickup, I have a decent, playable guitar.

Also, no bridge pickup.

Pics incoming..

Is always good to make something of something bad!
But any reason for no bridge pup? Isn't that the best thing about Telecasters?

I think the thing about this was to try and make a guitar as simple as possible, using what I had available. I didn't really use the bridge pup on my tele when it was stock and then neck pickup itself is reallllly thick and chunky sounding, I love it!
I'm not really a tele guy so the bridge pup there or not is indifferent to me

I think it was mainly an excuse for me to leave a gaping hole in the body so it can resonate a wee bit better acoustically.

Cheers

Fair enough. The main thing is you love it!

Yeah, I mainly built it as some piece of shit I could take away to college without risking my pride and joy getting stolen..

Pics!

Jahsoul wrote:Pics!

click on the "hidden" button in his first post for pics, yo

Ooops, new to the board, sorry.

Thing is sexy!

Welcome to the board! Also; thanks for the compliment.

Cheers

tomin8r wrote:Also, no bridge pickup.

You, sir, are a madman.

Thom wrote:But any reason for no bridge pup? Isn't that the best thing about Telecasters?

THIS. FOREVER.

Aye, I am a madman.

I never got along with the tele bridge pup, just was too brittle for my liking.

Someday I'm gonna get a proper tele and see how I feel about it, but until then, I'll stick with this reverse esquire

That's unique. Is the toggle going to function the way the Esquire does?

tomin8r wrote: I think it was mainly an excuse for me to leave a gaping hole in the body so it can resonate a wee bit better acoustically.

????

yeah, that's not really how things resonate. the sound comes from acoustic guitars from the flexing of the sound board (the top of the guitar). the hole(s) just allows the sound to come from the back as well the front of the sound board. like an open back speaker cabinet allows the sound to come from the back of the speaker as well as the front.

any resonating you might hear from a solid body guitar is going to be either directly from the strings or the pickguard acting as a sound board. no sound is coming from the wood.

Jahsoul; no toggle whatsoever

Johnnie; Read the gaping hole remark as: Didn't have/couldn't be arsed to put a pickup there.

Also, thanks for the insight mage, learning something new everyday from shortscale.

Cheers

Excellent.

mage wrote:any resonating you might hear from a solid body guitar is going to be either directly from the strings or the pickguard acting as a sound board. no sound is coming from the wood.

Does that mean that the type of wood has no effect on sound for solid bodies?

oh geez, I dunno if I wanna get into all that. but I'll just say that the whole "letting the guitar breath" thing has no scientific basis that I can think of. any sound that might be coming from the guitar is not going through the pickups anyway, the pickups are just transducing the energy of the moving strings. if there is any way it could make a difference it would be that the wood is effecting the resonance of the strings somehow.