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Hi! Here is my third build ever from France: 2tlb #03 It's a tele style guitar with a set neck, rear routing, and 2 humbuckers. Specs: Body: * Alder body, Flame Maple 5mm thick top. Neck: 5 pieces neck: Flame maple, pear, maple, pear, Flame maple. * Macassar ebony fretboard, jumbo frets, pearl dot inlays. * Flame maple headstock overlay. * Jumbo frets, graphtech nut. Kluson vintage tuners. Pickups: * Gibson Burstbuckers. * Gotoh humbucking tele bridge. * CTS and CRL electronics. Electrosocket jack plate. * Strap locks à la Anderson two nickel and a gold one. * The heel is contoured for easy access to the 22 frets. * The ferrules were messed up the first time so I drilled sweet ferrules in a brazilian rosewood piece leftover and inlaid that piece into the body. Invisible as the back is black. * The lacquer is clear with metal flakes in it. * The neck was sanded in order to feel like a music man one. The back is fat as I like 'em. * The top was stained with a blue jean and charcoal tint. I decided on a natural binding. I did a matching headstock and inlaid matching macassar stripes on the body. As I kept building guitars, I improved a lot! This one might my best one can't wait to start the next ones! Here are the pics: Here are 2tlb #01 #02 and #03: Regards. Fred

Here's what I almost finished yesterday: Alder body, maple top, maple neck, macassar ebony fingerboard, Gotoh bridge, Gibson burstbucker pickups (bought here), macassar ebony stripe on the body. The lacquer has some metal flakes in. What do you think? Fred

WOMD Gets my vote! Great inspiration and realisation there! All the other axes were great though. Congrats! Fred

Hi! Here are my comments: Bigd: sweet tele, but you didn't get my vote because you didn't build the neck. Btw, I like string thru on tellies. I would have put a pickguard on it too. Jehle: I don't like the design but there's something of a music man that I enjoy. I like the idea of the junkbox guitar. Nice initiative! Doug: I don't like the shape, The wood is amazing but the color didn't do it. What I really like is the fretboard! Awesome inlays and ebony! You get my vote for the neck!!! Jazzclub: Awesome shape! That's too bad the neck is aftermarket. I don't like the color on the closeup shot but the overall is the sweetest! Anyway! Great work all of you! Fred

Hi I will be organising a command shipped to France soon. If anyone is interested. Feel free to contact me on this forum: This Forum Regards. Fred

Looks fine to me too. Might be the perspective. But any way it was only put on the guitar for display, not screwed yet Fred

Voilà le résultat! Fred

one stripe it will be! Fred

Thanks for your advices! Keep on posting! Fred

How many stripes would you like to see between the pickups? Fred

Thanks a lot! The neck is chunky but the heel is smooth! Neck pickup is not that muddy even though it is 1 cm away from the strings. The relicing is due to flaws in the finish, but I like it it's classy for a junior type. Neck is not scalloped at all. I can't enter it to gotm for september I've already entered an Sg like. Maybe next month if I can't achieve the new one in time. Fred

Just like the SG they're cheapos from ebay. 35$ a set! Just ordered some burstbuckers for the next one! Fred

Voilà! All mahogany. Rosewood board. Neck pickup hidden (humbucker) Original grover tuners, rosewood veneer on the headstock and tenon. Home made relicing. 2 vols one sweet switch. Fred

I could adapt my 45 ° bit on a router table. But there is no need for it since it is a cavity plate I've already done it btw. Fred

I don't believe in jigsaws for pickguards. I'd better buy a router table. Because my router is not that stable for small pieces. Fred

I bought it on ebay new for 30 USD. It sure intonates well enough for me. I'm near Roissy CDG Airport. Fred

As a control cavity plate I'm working on bwb plastic. But the pattern of the cavity is not that easy to reproduce and I'm not very comfy with the router on that material. I might as well get some more ebony to carve it out. At first I didn't want 26 frets but I wanted to have both pickups close to the bridge so that left some space for the fretboard and I went for it! Yes there is a tonal distinction between both pickups and the combination of both pickups is not as muddy as I used to hear on dual humbuckers guitars. Fred

I managed to make not too pointy. Assuming that the neck is huge, the neck joint is really smooth. Fred

Hi everyone! This is my first guitar I'm building from France. The Idea was to make a Zakk Wylde style SG with an altered body. The body itself is mahogany, the neck is hard rock maple, the fretboard is ebony with jumbo frets, the headstock is tinted flame maple inlaid as a splitted diamong. The bridge is a wilkinson wrap around seated on a makassar ebony piece. Tuners are Grover replicas. The nut is a graphtech one. Pickups are cheapos from ebay. The pinup is a sticker. There are 3 straplocks à la Tom Anderson. What you see between the pickups is the end of the neck tenon which extends under the bridge pickup. Electronics are 1 volume, 1 tone and 3 pos switch. The neck is HUGE, the hugest I've ever played, I might shave it one day. There are 26 frets, the last 4 are scalloped. The paint has been done with car paint. The neck joint has been shaped to look like a thunderbolt, in reverence to AC / DC. That's all I believe! Regards. Fred

Here is my contribution. This is my first guitar I'm building from France. The Idea was to make a Zakk Wylde style SG with an altered body. The body itself is mahogany, the neck is hard rock maple, the fretboard is ebony with jumbo frets, the headstock is tinted flame maple inlaid as a splitted diamong. The bridge is a wilkinson wrap around seated on a makassar ebony piece. Tuners are Grover replicas. The nut is a graphtech one. Pickups are cheapos from ebay. The pinup is a sticker. There are 3 straplocks à la Tom Anderson. What you see between the pickups is the end of the neck tenon which extends under the bridge pickup. Electronics are 1 volume, 1 tone and 3 pos switch. The neck is HUGE, the hugest I've ever played, I might shave it one day. There are 26 frets, the last 4 are scalloped. The paint has been done with car paint. The neck joint has been shaped to look like a thunderbolt, in reverence to AC / DC. That's all I believe! Regards. Fred