My First Guitar

[BLADE RH4]

This my first guitar, that I've assembled from parts. I'm still waiting for the switch tip to arrive. I must say that I'm incredibly impressed with how it plays and even more so with the sound. It's turned out much better than I expected. Next I'll try to do a 'start from scratch' project.... Maybe a timber Talbo.

[GregP]

Awesome work! Yeller telecaster (I'm sure they call it 'blonde' or something, no?) with black pickguard. Classic!

What brands of parts did you end up using and what was your final bill (estimated) if you don't mind my asking?

Greg

[BLADE RH4]

Thanks. I'm unsure of who made the body, I got it from ebay (AUS) and it's made from ash, already finished in the blonde colour. The neck is an Allparts 1 peice vintage 'C' finished in Nitro. Machines are Sperzel locking. Pickups are EMG T set (pots, switch, output jack and wiring also). The control plate, bridge (Std. USA), output hardware and neck plate are genuine fender parts I also got from ebay (US). Pickguard is a cheap single ply by allparts (needed modifying to fit EMG neck pickup). It cost me around approx. $AUD1000.

I've always liked vintage tele's, so when I found the body on ebay it just had to be done. This has to be close to the best sounding Tele I've played and yes it does suprise me because I wasn't thinking EMG's are all that great. I thought I'd try the EMG's only because I got them so cheap, worked out well in the end. I was initially going to go for Kinman p'ups.

I should also say a thankyou to all you guys who helped out with questions I had asked here.