3 Pickup Telecaster

I love these modern Telecasters, the only problem is you can’t get the original sound of the neck and bridge pickups together?  The switch works just like a Strat’.What I’m going to do is add a mini switch to just bring in the bridge pickup no matter what else is selected.  The modern players have […]

Telecaster Custom – Rebuild 6th update

Well I finally think I’ve got it worried.  I did hope to have it finished this afternoon but then, what was I thinking, anything on this guitar was always going to take twice as long as planned! Next then the neck picukup cavity.  Needs to ba at least this much bigger… With a small router […]

Telecaster Custom – Rebuild 5th update

A few more parts arrived today, the screws for the pickups. Guess what? even that didn’t work out as easily as I would have liked.  Should have expected that I suppose, I think this guitar hates me.  Well you know what, I’m starting to hate it back!!!  One of the screw holes is very worn so the […]

Telecaster Custom – Volume fix

I’ve never really been a fan of these but to see a 70s guitar like this is nice. The owner wasn’t happy as the bridge pickup was just too much when on 10.  I’ve never really come across such a request but he was right, it just had too much of an edge to it, […]

Telecaster Build – Final Update

Got the Tele finished this afternoon.  Not before the neck caused me more grief. Next stage, wire in the electrics.  A slightly unconventional wiring with a 4 position switch so that the pickups can be selected singly, in parallel or series. Once the wiring was done It’s the final lap, put the strings back and […]