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looks great, good luck with the oil. Look forward to reading about your experience with that as I'll be doing the same with mine. Just got to find me a Tru-oil seller locally.

Unfortunately I've got a few busy weeks coming up, so not expecting much progress in february. In between I'll try to make some templates for the body as well as the Edge-trem and pickup-cavities. Then in march I'll try to book a day to roughcut and route the wire channel for the pickup selector so I can then glue the Zebra top on. 

in the mean time I'm gathering as much information and advice as possible, so expect some questions!

still not sure if I'm going to use a control plate or not either.

looks good, nice solution this way and less drilling!

how did you route the cavity cover recess? did you create a template for these?

Yeah! the wood has arrived!

matching Zebra top, Mahogany back and Zebra veneer for the headstock!

I better be making me some routing templates very soon!

nice neck!

eventhough it's not a complete build it's good reading anyway. There's always things to learn or get inspiration from

nice figure. If you'd put the walnut top on you would have routed a wire channel in the body I assume?

Not sure where you're strap button is going to be. Maybe you could drill through the upper horn to the pickup cavity from the spot where you're strapbutton is going to be. it would need a longer piece of wood to be glued back in, but then you can cover it up with the button.

it has to go through the switch cavity as well ofcourse...

great read @Norris!

question: did you first route the top and body in the exact same shape? or did you do a rough cut on the top and then routed it after glueing to the body?

I'm not using the standard setup so no problemen there ( I hope)

Great topic , thx for sharing!

9 minutes ago, mjrbuzz said:

Awesome?s like the same plan I used f?or mine, check the dimensions on that drawing, I actually had to reduce min to get it correct to the stock numbers  only like 2% but just check them to be sure

 

Thanks,

what do you mean with stock numbers?

37 minutes ago, curtisa said:

Bonus points to be awarded if you can make a feature of permanently installing that Lego block

Hmm, thinking lego humbuckercovers? 

so, my Ibanez -customizing project has turned into a first build project, so I started a new topic.

over the years I have done some customizing: routing for humbuckers, replacing a crappy trem with a Floyd, refretting and radiusing necks. Never have I built a body from scratch , so I'll categorize this as my first build, eventhough I'm reusing the Ibanez neck I have re-radiused and will be refretted.

The specs:

• Tele - style Mahogany body with 6mm Zebrano top (ordered)
• Dimarzio Paf Joe and Paf-pro humbucking pickups
• Edge floating trem
• 1 Volume, 1 Tone (push pull) for single coil switching on custom control plate
• 250mm radiused neck with zebrano headstock finish
• no pickguard

I've found some online plans for a Tele 72 custom which I've printed out to create a template from.

have drawn the routings for the edge trem and humbuckers. The plan is to put the pickup selector in the lower horn.

I'd like to find or create a nice custom control plate. Still need some inspiration for that.

Here's some pics. Including one of my professional guitar parts storage.

wood is on order, I'll get some MDF to make some routing templates from as well. I'm also thinking of making my own control knobs on my old man's lathe. Still thinking about a particular style for the control plate and knobs.

to be continued

congrats! finish is just like a mirror!

interested to hear how it sounds.

wait a minute, would it be cool to add a youtube-demonstration video for every finished guitar?

nice finish @PDX Rich, thanks for describing the process. If i can find Tru-oil in Holland I'll give that a go for my Zebra-caster.

19 hours ago, Prostheta said:

This is going to be fun!

it already is!

@Curtisa, I'll need to route for my Edge Trem, I can probably use the same templates in the tutorial section right?

can I ask how you created these so cleanly in perspex?

thx

allright. Ordered some mahogany and Zebrano. I'll start a new thread on this as it has now changed into my first real build

no woodworking skills, said he 

great job man! 

nice! great idea on the rig, nice to see it works well.

might be something like this. Thinking about Zebrano-wood top with a metal 'Zemaitis' style pickguard 

not good at sketching btw

I'll follow your suggestion @Prostheta, don't feel much for copying a tele one-on-one.

I'll start scratching some ideas!

never mind, found some ( and a lot more actually) on a russian 'google' drive.

11 hours ago, Prostheta said:

If you're thinking of copying the Radius/JS style, you're in for an adventure! The constantly-shifting radii around the body are a challenge. I've seen plans however, but beyond that it is how you can interpret them into a workpiece.

actually I'm thinking about a Tele-style body as I am really inspired by @demonx 'Darkhorse' and I used to own an Ibanez Tele-style guitar (580T) which featured an edge trem and 2 humbuckers which I really liked. 

Are there any freely accessible Tele-style build-plans available?

slow, slow progress. hell of a job.

I might follow @mjrbuzz 's example and make myself a body in stead of refinishing and just reuse the neck and hardware.

I'll see if I can come up with a design and woodchoices while I continue stripping...

thanks @curtisa. Maybe people can share their suppliers in the suppliers listings, there are already some there, but those are the easy-to-be-found ones. Not to say they don't have great stuff! Sometimes you're just looking for something 'special' 

My old man has a lathe, I might try to make myself some custom metal knobs just for the fun of it.