MoCaster Posted January 21, 2006 Report Share Posted January 21, 2006 (edited) Well, time to start my first guitar. It’s gonna be a Telecaster copy with a poplar body, 22 fret maple neck , rosewood fingerboard. The bridge will be a Gotoh style wraparound. For pickups I’m planning on using P90’s. It’ll look something like this, but I haven’t yet decided on the finish . Wood and neck Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. Edited January 21, 2006 by MoCaster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psw Posted January 21, 2006 Report Share Posted January 21, 2006 Welcome to PG MoCaster... Sounds like a great first go and a real rocker, nice and simple and a promise of a unique tone. Only comment for me at this point is that with the wraparound bridge it will be higher than a tele or start bridge so you are likely to want to tilt that neck back gibson style to get it to work out... Enjoy...pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeiscosRock Posted January 21, 2006 Report Share Posted January 21, 2006 Very nice. Like psw said, you'll need to either raise the fretboard to be more proud of the body (make the neck pocket not so deep), or add some angle to the pocket in order to conteract the height of the wraparound. I'm trying to decide whether i dislike or absolutely love the pickguard. I think I'm likin' it though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGwaH Posted January 21, 2006 Report Share Posted January 21, 2006 I'm actually on board for that pink style with that kick ass pickguard. I'm a sucker for a good pickguard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoCaster Posted January 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2006 Yeah, I know about the issue about the bridge and I will probably have to add a slight angle to my neck pocket. So I will have to wait until the bridge arrives until I can do any routing for the neck. Hopefully I can get the body blank glued up and the body cut this week, but I am gonna have to rig up my router to plane the wood. I tried planing with hand planes but that didn't go too well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickguard Posted January 21, 2006 Report Share Posted January 21, 2006 Any reason for the choice of the TOM? Seems to me you could go with a hardtail bridge, you won't have to worry about the neck angle...don't know about having an angled 25.5" scale neck, might feel weird? I think a better option is to recess the bridge into the body a bit (I prefer the wraparounds too). But definitely wait until you have all your parts. I like the pickguard, though the knobs look a little naked without the control strip.... And everytime I see a P90, it makes me want to build another guitar... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marzocchi705 Posted January 21, 2006 Report Share Posted January 21, 2006 I like alot! The pick guard works very well with the tele body, i am look forward to seeing this built up. I have played alot of BC Rich guitars that are 25.5"scale with TOM's and the neck angle is fine. I just like neck angles though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marksound Posted January 22, 2006 Report Share Posted January 22, 2006 See if you can find one of these to see if there's any neck angle. I'm thinking that bridge is probably flush or recessed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeiscosRock Posted January 23, 2006 Report Share Posted January 23, 2006 You could also just make the neck mroe proud of the top of the body, couldn't you? Might take some getting used to but it's not that hard. After a few days all that space between the strings and body doesn't bother you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoCaster Posted January 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2006 Built my planing jig today and planed the wood. Worked pretty good too. Have to go out and get me some pipe clamps so I can glue it up tomorrow. Here's pics of my planing jig: click images to enlarge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickguard Posted January 24, 2006 Report Share Posted January 24, 2006 You could also just make the neck mroe proud of the top of the body, couldn't you? Might take some getting used to but it's not that hard. After a few days all that space between the strings and body doesn't bother you. Yep, this is true--the guitar I just finished has a huge space between the strings and the body, and it doesn't bother me one bit. In fact, I kind of like it, since I tend to dig down deep with the pick. This guitar, of course, has a two-tiered pickguard, which brings that part of the pickguard up to where it would normally be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoCaster Posted January 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2006 Well got the body cut out. Now I need to wait to get my bridge and pickups before I can do any of the routing on the body. Yeah something like this. Also I think I'll be going with a strat style jack located on the back instead of the standard tele jack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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