NGD - Bitten by the Tele bug?

[Philly Q]

Oh, I can't fight it any more.

This is an old (and bad) picture.  I now only have one of these three, made from the neck of the one on the left and the body of the one on the right.

[Ian Price]

And another.

Sob. Should never have sold that Esquire. 

[Plenum n Heather]

All of these Teles look great!

Mine:

[Telerocker]

Here a so-so-iPhone-photo from my tele.

[metale]

So I've done the first mod to my telecaster. For reference, before:



After:

[Telerocker]

That black guard looks so much better on vintage creamwhite.

[marantz1300]

More Tele porn 78 with Flat 50's.



MIJ with Brown Sugars




This was a home brew.Warmouth neck and Yardbirds.Gone now.


another

[metale]

I was pretty set on putting the Mississippi Queen neck on this guitar and install the single coil version of the same bridge with a Piledriver.

Unfortunately, I ended up noticing that this humbucker bridge (the the humbucker routing under it) is wider than regular Tele bridges :( back to square one.

I do enjoy playing metal on this guitar, I spent a couple hours last evening playing Rammstein, Breaking Benjamin, Metallica and Iron Maiden with it. The stock pickups are like Cold Sweats tonewise, but lack all of the string separation and definition.

[MrBump]

Whatever happened to Roo..?

 :D

[AndyR]

Whatever happened to Roo..?

 :D

Well, he's doing quite well for himself, making good money playing tele in a Paul McCartney tribute band... After all the stuff he's said on here, he's kinda too ashamed to come back now...

[Dave Sloven]

I will let you know how much routing was needed for fitting my neck MQ (long leg).

The  bridge PU would look better with 53mm spacing, yes.

Sorry to resurrect this thread from the dead, but did you ever ft that long leg pickup to your Tele?

[metale]

I did not, sorry. I had my MQ modded (shortened legs), but ended up putting an Alnico II paf-style neck humbucker from a diferent brand. So, routing was done, but not that deep. Cheers