What a beautiful Guitar, sadly it just doesn’t play quite as well as it should. To get it spot on it needs a fret dress… They weren’t that bad but now they are spot on, just need to be re-shaped….. and polished. Looking good. Just needs putting back together and set up…. starting with the […]
Tag: Fender Telecaster
Fender Telecaster setup
A quiet day in the workshop today, a couple of odd bits and bobs. Did have a rather nice Tele’ in need of a setup. Nothing really wrong with it, just needs a tweek here and there. The neck set was a little high, so about a 1/4 turn on the truss-rod. The action at […]
Telecaster Custom – Rebuild final update
The final stage, fit the strings and a setup, should be easy, not with this one…. more problems…. Starting with the neck set, a little large…. so a quick turn of the truss-rod. So far so good. The action at the first fret is a little high…….. so I cut each nut slot down a […]
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 – Rebuild 4th update
This thing is really bugging me now. Every time I touch it something else doesn’t work! I finally worked out why the neck pickup wasn’t sitting properly…. The cutout for the pickup doesn’t line up exactly with the cavity in the body, there is about a 2mm lip that is just catching the pickup. Another […]
Telecaster Custom – Rebuild 2nd update
Re-shaping the frets isn’t difficult, it just takes time and patience along with the right file.. Making sure only to file the edges of the fret and round it off without touching the top. Half way through fret No.1… Some time later, all done…. The file leaves a very rough finish so each fret now needs re-polishing […]
Telecaster Custom – Rebuild 1st update
I was out of the workshop all morning and had another small job to finish so didn’t manage as much as I would have liked. However I made a start on the fret-board. The first, and probably most important step, make sure the fret-board is perfectly flat. With the neck flat I always mask up the fet-board […]
Telecaster Custom – Rebuild
Got an interesting job lined up. Build a Telecaster Custom. The body, neck and pickups are second-hand but everything else will be new. The frets are rather worn so the first job will be to sort those out. I was out of the workshop all morning and had another small job to finish so didn’t manage […]
USA Fender Telecaster Tuning problems
A really nice Tele’ but the owner’s unhappy as it won’t stay in tune. There is always the problem with the standard Tele’ bridge. The Intonation is always a compromise so I’m going to change them for a compensated set… With the strings off I’ve had a good look at the machine heads. They […]