3DogNate Posted March 6, 2012 Report Share Posted March 6, 2012 (edited) After a round of Tele styled guitars for comissioners I decided that I'd take some of the leftovers and build a Tele style guitar for myself since I don't have a straight up tele of my own. I have not been very dilligent taking pics, but I've got some and I'm in the finishing phase right now. Thought I'd toss out a few in progress shots before putting a finished one out. Specs. Body: Swamp Ash Finish: Mary Kaye White (Target EM6000 Waterbourne Lacquer) Neck: Wenge Fingerboard: Wenge Fretwire: StewMac #149 Inlay: Mother of pearl face and side dots and mother of pearl Logo Bridge: Joe Barden Vintage Tele Tuning Machines: Sperzel Locking Pickups: Dimarzio Area-T (DP418 - Bridge, DP417 Neck) Pickguard: Tortoise Jack: Electrosocket Edited March 6, 2012 by 3DogNate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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demonx Posted March 6, 2012 Report Share Posted March 6, 2012 Nice. Wenge looks great. How did it carve? I recently carved a neck with rosewood chunks in it and it really sucked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3DogNate Posted March 6, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2012 The Wenge wasn't too hard to carve, I'd put it about as difficult as Indian Rosewood... I mainly used a micro plane and a stewmac dragon rasp. It went pretty quick. No we're near as difficult as another rosewood like pau ferro or cocobolo would be. I've got a set neck I started a while back made of Cumaru... Now that **** is hard. I fully dread carving that one. Nice. Wenge looks great. How did it carve? I recently carved a neck with rosewood chunks in it and it really sucked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3DogNate Posted March 9, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2012 Tell you what... I'm so f'n done with waterbourne finishes...its crap all crap... I decided that I liked the satin finish that was getting straight off the gun... looked a lot like the Fender Highway series finishes. So I went to install the String ferrules. and teh finish cracked around it so I said screw it I'm relicing the body. That's the last time I'm doing waterbourne, I've got an acoustic build that I started with it, I'm going to let that cure for a couple of weeks and consider that as a sealer coat and spray that with Nitro... The waterbornes are just too brittle. I'll post a pic later today. >^| Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3DogNate Posted March 10, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2012 I went ahead and sid the assembly and setup last night. Plays and sounds awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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