guitar build, finish advice needed

[juansolo]

 8) do like

[Pete24v]

it sounds a little odd... very different to my other Tele's. It still has twang in the bridge but has way more beef. The neck humbucker sounds a little muddy to my ears, but i am used to a strat/tele single coil pickup. The Volume pot only seems to work from 7-10, nothing below 7.. it's as if it's all the way off. I think it might be because i'm using an audio/log pot, will swap it for a linear in a few days

Other than that, it's great. Gonna give it a blast through my big amps and a few pedals tomorrow  :D

[Philly Q]

Looking great!  :D

It's interesting to read your thoughts on the TV Jones pickups.  I have a set (unused, of course  :roll: ) and I've been worried they'll be too clean and twangy for my tastes, but from your description it sounds like they are quite "humbuckerish" after all.  Which is good, for me.  The guitar (if it ever gets built) isn't a million miles from yours, but the body is a swamp ash Thinline so it's going to sound somewhat different.

[Pete24v]

After a few days with it, I'm loving it. Very different from my other guitars, the TV Jones pickups are very humbucker like, but not as fat, and they are very low output.

I fixed the volume issue by soldering a treble bleed. 001uf cap and a 150k resistor to it. It's smoothed out the taper and made it usable again.