Refinishing - effects on tone

[Frank]

I have got a couple of Tele bodies, but not vintage style - they're chambered and (block your eyes/ears, Andy....) contoured like Strat bodies for extra playing comfort.

I'd love to replace my '62 reissue tele body with a contoured one. Let me know ifthose ever end up on eBay, I'll do a last minute bid. Then argue about the shipping costs. Then not pay. Then give you negative feeback. Or something like that.

[Philly Q]

I have got a couple of Tele bodies, but not vintage style - they're chambered and (block your eyes/ears, Andy....) contoured like Strat bodies for extra playing comfort.

I'd love to replace my '62 reissue tele body with a contoured one. Let me know ifthose ever end up on eBay, I'll do a last minute bid. Then argue about the shipping costs. Then not pay. Then give you negative feeback. Or something like that.

I look forward to it!  :lol:

Not planning to sell at the moment, although I have been attempting to reduce my ridiculous "Warmoth mountain".  One of the Tele bodies is a really nice one, swamp ash finished in Sunset Orange, it looks excellent - I really must get round to using it sometime.

[Twinfan]

I'm guessing it's these chaps - good workmanship and they're nice to deal with, too:

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/mjtagedguitarfinishes

That's the one I was thinking of - you know me too well Phil!  :lol:

[Ian Price]

I have got a couple of Tele bodies, but not vintage style - they're chambered and (block your eyes/ears, Andy....) contoured like Strat bodies for extra playing comfort.

I'd love to replace my '62 reissue tele body with a contoured one. Let me know ifthose ever end up on eBay, I'll do a last minute bid. Then argue about the shipping costs. Then not pay. Then give you negative feeback. Or something like that.

I look forward to it!  :lol:

Not planning to sell at the moment, although I have been attempting to reduce my ridiculous "Warmoth mountain".  One of the Tele bodies is a really nice one, swamp ash finished in Sunset Orange, it looks excellent - I really must get round to using it sometime.

Hmmm - interesting. I'm not on the look out for a contoured body but like the sound of a '62 reissue!

I do have the self build proejct I have been working on for an age - perhaps I should just aim to get that body done and see what it's like with my current Baja neck. I'll report back in a few years.

[juansolo]

It will be cheaper/easier to buy a replacement body and sell the Badger one on eBay to recoup costs.  The guy who sells relic ones on US eBay would be my first port of call...

Yup, reckon you're right. It's going to be prohibitively expensive to pay someone to do it. Would be ok to do it yourself, but the potential to make a right pigs ear of it is high. Either the stripping or the re-finishing. If I knew I could get the poly off cleanly and easily, I might have a go...

As it stands though, nah. I'll leave it be. It sounds bloody lovely anyhow (FWIW mine has had the laquer taken back on the neck. Dunno what that's done for it tonally as it had new pups at the same time. But it's lovely and smooooth now when it was sticky before...).

[juansolo]

I'd love to replace my '62 reissue tele body with a contoured one. Let me know ifthose ever end up on eBay, I'll do a last minute bid. Then argue about the shipping costs. Then not pay. Then give you negative feeback. Or something like that.

Hmmm, a solid mahogany tele body, routed for P90's with a wrap-around bridge and strat contours... Maybe done in purple burst... That sort of appeals... Maybe a nice maple neck with a rosewood board and black painted headstock *rubs chin*

*giggles like a mad scientist*

[Ian Price]

(FWIW mine has had the laquer taken back on the neck. Dunno what that's done for it tonally as it had new pups at the same time. But it's lovely and smooooth now when it was sticky before...).

Yep - this is exactly the reason I took the lacquer off of mine. Have you taken yours off completely or just sanded it to a matt finish? I went a bit mad and took the finish completely off. Maybe I'll regret it one day but it does feel considerably better (and much smoother)

[juansolo]

(FWIW mine has had the laquer taken back on the neck. Dunno what that's done for it tonally as it had new pups at the same time. But it's lovely and smooooth now when it was sticky before...).

Yep - this is exactly the reason I took the lacquer off of mine. Have you taken yours off completely or just sanded it to a matt finish? I went a bit mad and took the finish completely off. Maybe I'll regret it one day but it does feel considerably better (and much smoother)

It's not off completely, just to a matt finish. I didn't want to take it off completely as I worried about it picking up mank from my hands and going black.

[Ian Price]

Maybe I got too carried away then. I do like the dirty look though so may rub some coffee into it or something.

[Philly Q]

Maybe I got too carried away then. I do like the dirty look though so may rub some coffee into it or something.

Is it just the back of the neck?  You've gotta do the fretboard as well for the full effect!

[AndyR]

Maybe I got too carried away then. I do like the dirty look though so may rub some coffee into it or something.

Is it just the back of the neck?  You've gotta do the fretboard as well for the full effect!

That's exactly why I haven't done it to mine :lol:

I rubbed mine back a bit, but that's it....

[Philly Q]

I've noticed that the Fender Custom Shop's relic jobs on maple boards are getting better all the time - they look really good now, even the "dirty frets".

[Ian Price]

Maybe I got too carried away then. I do like the dirty look though so may rub some coffee into it or something.

Is it just the back of the neck?  You've gotta do the fretboard as well for the full effect!

I'd not considered this. Maybe I should give it some thought  :o

I've noticed that the Fender Custom Shop's relic jobs on maple boards are getting better all the time - they look really good now, even the "dirty frets".

Maybe I should pay a visit to GV to see some recent examples. The relicing wasn't that extensive on my CS Esquire and the CS Strat had a RW board.

[Philly Q]

Examples (both sold, unfortunately!):

http://www.guitar-village.co.uk/productdetail.aspx?pid=10742&c=110

http://www.guitar-village.co.uk/productdetail.aspx?pid=10741&c=110

[FernandoDuarte]

Well, just to add... On poly you can take-out the finish with a heat gun (never did, but saw some guys doing)... Seems like it's quite easy, just was told to not keep the gun pointed at the same place much time, as will burn the wood...