the telecaster kid Posted March 28, 2010 Report Share Posted March 28, 2010 (edited) Well, many moons ago, a younger, naive me bought a nice custom telecaster body off of ebay, thinking I could construct a nice, classy guitar. It was made from mahogany and bloodwood, and was beautiful. Being a knucklehead, I proceeded to mangle and gouge it with bad tools and no skill. Over the years, I tried again and again to make it into a playable instrument, failing every time, and each time scarring and marring the body further. Today, I finally finished it. Now, I must warn anyone who reads this, these images may be disturbing to guitar lovers. http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y108/spie...e5e07538bd0.jpg http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y108/spie...b2038e4084f.jpg http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y108/spie...227fc5a717c.jpg http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y108/spie...06627239e31.jpg http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y108/spie...4da60a22e75.jpg http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y108/spie...c724ea6c2b0.jpg Specs: The body is an ebay custom, made of mahogany with bloodwood stripes. The neck is a one-off fender telecaster copy. The tailpiece is a bigsby copy, taken from an old japanese guitar. The bridge is a TOM knockoff. The posts are carriage bolts drilled through the body with nuts holding them in place, and setting the height of the bridge. The tuners are schallers. The pickup is 4-coils, made by taping 2 seymour duncan mini-humbuckers (little 59 and hot rails I think) together, and wiring them in series. The controls are 1 volume knob, with a knob that says "tone" on it The control plate is a piece of pickguard with several screws holding it over the control cavity. I drew teeth, and eye and nostril on the headstock, and I wrote "KILL MUSIC" on the body, all with sharpie. The routings were done with a chisel. There is an extra routing above the control cavity that does nothing. It had a purpose at one point. The paint is the result of the body being painted several times, and each time the paint was scraped off poorly. The fret markers were dots, but I turned them into Xs with a sharpie. Edited March 28, 2010 by the telecaster kid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ae3 Posted March 28, 2010 Report Share Posted March 28, 2010 Ummmmmmm..... Well it's got character, that's for sure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akula Posted March 28, 2010 Report Share Posted March 28, 2010 I like... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juntunen Guitars Posted March 28, 2010 Report Share Posted March 28, 2010 lol looks like you striped off paint and doused it in lighter fluid and dropped the match to it. Very unique in a way though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotYou Posted March 28, 2010 Report Share Posted March 28, 2010 awesome. It borders on post-futurism. I think we need more of that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perhellion Posted March 29, 2010 Report Share Posted March 29, 2010 How does the pickup sound? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baazelbub Posted May 1, 2010 Report Share Posted May 1, 2010 I like it, i bet you could sell it to one of those "abstract" art peoples and probably make a profit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitarkid4143 Posted May 1, 2010 Report Share Posted May 1, 2010 Looks like a post apoctolyptic Tele! I think its very cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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