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.

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Once the wiring was done It’s the final lap, put the strings back and complete the setup.  With the strings at tension it was clear that the action at the first fret is fine and the set in the neck is OK…..

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However the action at the other end was way to high, I thought it might be…

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The only way to cure that is to reset the angle of the neck at the body by increasing the thickness of the shim that I already added.

Each bridge section has several slots in it so I used the string spacing rule to get the strings right at bottom of the neck.

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Once that was done all that’s needed is to set the action height at the bottom of the neck and the intonation.

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Job done…

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