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[Jay]

New Jay BB Guitar day

[StrummersOfThunder]

Three saddle traditional Tele bridge and that would be perfect

Fantastic work I love the stain and binding

Why the pick guard round the neck pickup ? Is that required with the hollow body ?

[AiRdAd]

that looks great!!! well done!!!

[WellyBlues]

that's fabulous! Love it! Well done.

[Lyle]

That stain looks stunning!

[StrummersOfThunder]

That stain looks stunning!

I agree !

[NippleWrestler]

rewarewa neck?

[hamo]

That's a stunner

[jeremyb]

Outstanding Jean!!! Did you ever explain what the BB meant?

[Jay]

Three saddle traditional Tele bridge and that would be perfect

Fantastic work I love the stain and binding

Why the pick guard round the neck pickup ? Is that required with the hollow body ?

Thanks, glad you and I chose that antique violin colour scheme

It is a semi hollow body, there is a 100mm wide center piece all the way through. The tele neck pickups are always mounted on a pick guard so one can adjust the height. I could not see any other way of mounting that pickup without a pickup mounting ring unless I had made it a full hollow body. Then it would have potentially been possible.

[Jay]

rewarewa neck?

All the timbers in this guitar were NZ grown. In fact the rewarewa neck came from a tree from our property which I cut into planks many years ago.
The sides and center block are from a kohekohe tree also cut into planks by yours truly.

The top and back came from the Walhalla norfolk pine from Mt Albert. The kohekohe fretboard I got from your mate Geoff

[StrummersOfThunder]

Three saddle traditional Tele bridge and that would be perfect

Fantastic work I love the stain and binding

Why the pick guard round the neck pickup ? Is that required with the hollow body ?

Thanks, glad you and I chose that antique violin colour scheme

It is a semi hollow body, there is a 100mm wide center piece all the way through. The tele neck pickups are always mounted on a pick guard so one can adjust the height. I could not see any other way of mounting that pickup without a pickup mounting ring unless I had made it a full hollow body. Then it would have potentially been possible.

Great stain

Re: pickup I’m not sure I follow. Could you not have just put rubber spacers behind it and screwed into the centre block rather than spacers in from of it and screwing up into the ring ? Tele neck pickup would be about 7.5cm wide between screws ?

[Jay]

Outstanding Jean!!! Did you ever explain what the BB meant?

You can choose
Big Balls,
Beautiful Builds
Brigitte Bardot (hmm, that is singular)
Belly Buttons
Bloody Basterds
etc...

[Jay]

Three saddle traditional Tele bridge and that would be perfect

Fantastic work I love the stain and binding

Why the pick guard round the neck pickup ? Is that required with the hollow body ?

Thanks, glad you and I chose that antique violin colour scheme

It is a semi hollow body, there is a 100mm wide center piece all the way through. The tele neck pickups are always mounted on a pick guard so one can adjust the height. I could not see any other way of mounting that pickup without a pickup mounting ring unless I had made it a full hollow body. Then it would have potentially been possible.

Great stain

Re: pickup I’m not sure I follow. Could you not have just put rubber spacers behind it and screwed into the centre block rather than spacers in from of it and screwing up into the ring ? Tele neck pickup would be about 7.5cm wide between screws ?

True, but that tele pickup is has a nasty triangle shape and I did not want that pickup base exposed, only the lipstick bit iykwim.

[codedog]

That looks stunning! The chillies in the background looks great too.