Show us your Telecasters

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Re: Show us your Telecasters

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Kev77 wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 10:00 pm
Miza wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 8:25 pm Great colour Kev, what's that green called?
Hey thanks, I’m not sure. I spent very long time getting it right. There were some examples on their site and I just show them the pic. MJT are great to deal with
Yeah they are; great customer service.

I just ordered a closet-clean VTT body in Olympic White for my 60s tele build. Should arrive around Feb, can't wait.
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With the Japanese stuff and MJT so good. I can’t see me buying anything fender new again
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I finally finished building this telecaster. It started life as a set of mahogany shelves that a friend gave me. I laminated them together (like a 1970s Les paul) and made a tele body out of them. Grant (lostininverness) routed the binding channels for me and I installed the binding. There's a post about that somewhere way back in 2017. I had a tele neck laying around and a bunch of other bits so it was roughly assembled as a twin humbucker tele with a wrap around bridge.
We had all our stuff arrive in the States a couple of months ago and amongst it all was this half done tele. I sprayed it 'antique gold ' with matching headstock, installed white plastics including a custom pickguard, banjo armrest (we are in the south after all!) custom made control plate with a volume for each pickup, epiphone probucker pickups (these things are awesome bang for the buck), lightning bolt Bridge with short arm maestro vibrato.
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It's a fun guitar. The armrest and vibrato are more looks than function but they still hold their own!
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The inspiration!
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Nice man. The Fenson LesCaster!
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Epic!
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Beautiful work! :o :thumbup:

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This forum is great at reinforcing how talentless I am. Nice work!!

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kdawg2a wrote: Tue Jun 28, 2022 6:16 am The inspiration!20220627_140100.jpg
Amazing! They look exactly the same. :D
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Slowy wrote: Tue Jun 28, 2022 12:27 pm
kdawg2a wrote: Tue Jun 28, 2022 6:16 am The inspiration!20220627_140100.jpg
Amazing! They look exactly the same. :D
apart from the caliper.
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That's a very arty toe pic reflected in the chrome beneath the pots...
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Crackly…
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GrantB wrote: Tue Jun 28, 2022 5:30 pmCrackly…
CRC will sort that ...










and the finish should buff out as well.
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Bg wrote: Tue Jun 28, 2022 5:31 pm
and the finish should buff out as well.
Thinking I might redo it in poly…
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GrantB wrote: Tue Jun 28, 2022 5:33 pm
Bg wrote: Tue Jun 28, 2022 5:31 pm
and the finish should buff out as well.
Thinking I might redo it in poly…
With a howling wolf motif?
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