I'm having a custom Tele build

[LordRiffenstein]

I am having a custom tele build by a Swiss builder I got to know on the web. Here are the specs so far:

It'll be a thinline with a maple neck in see-thru blue.
-2-piece swamp ash body, that's a 1-piece top and 1-piece back.
-Maple neck made to my specs, similar to the neck on my #1 tele medium-sized frets, Tusq nut, Kluson tuners
-All controls will be mounted directly into the body, rear-routed.
-No pickguard, neck pickup will be mounted with a special mounting ring
-Custom wound pickups
-Probably going to add a Fishman Powerbridge and have acoustic and magnetic output routed to 2 seperate outputs, in this case controls will be concentric pot for the 2 volumes, 1 tone for magnetic sound, little 3-way to choose magnetic/both/piezo and a 3-way for the magnetic sounds.

There are still some things I need to sort out (natural binding, pickups, piezo or not) but this is basically the tele of my dreams.

The wait will be long but worth it!

Cya.

[Felipe]

I have one that I got recently from a Brazilian luthier, made with specs of my choice:

2-piece matched maple quilt top over 1-piece cedar hollow body, thinline style with F-hole, maple neck and a fantastic Brazilian rosewood slab board, Rio Grande Texas humbucker on neck and Muy Grande for Tele on bridge, wilkinson vintage tele bridge with adjustable saddles.

The humbucker tone is worth the price of the guitar alone, very jazzy, fat, smokey, simply wonderful. The bridge is very agressive and complex, and they also combine really nice. The cedar body is amazing, very light, smells like a classical guitar and resonates like nothing else!

[LordRiffenstein]

Originally posted by Felipe
I have one that I got recently from a Brazilian luthier, made with specs of my choice:

2-piece matched maple quilt top over 1-piece cedar hollow body, thinline style with F-hole, maple neck and a fantastic Brazilian rosewood slab board, Rio Grande Texas humbucker on neck and Muy Grande for Tele on bridge, wilkinson vintage tele bridge with adjustable saddles.

The humbucker tone is worth the price of the guitar alone, very jazzy, fat, smokey, simply wonderful. The bridge is very agressive and complex, and they also combine really nice. The cedar body is amazing, very light, smells like a classical guitar and resonates like nothing else!

any pictures available?? Sounds like a killer guitar Felipe!

Cya,

Yoeri

[Felipe]

Not yet, cause I'm waiting for another custom Tele which was supposed to arrive earlier this week but it's probably will get here today.

This last one will make 3 of them: the one with the quilt top, a 62 Custom clone/3 color burst, alder body, w/Van Zandts and the one arriving is a Nocaster clone with VZ too, one piece ash body!
I'll take pics this weekend and let you know one Monday!

I have some (bad) pics of 2 of my custom strats from the same guy (in fact now I have 5 of these strats and I'll get pics of those this weekend too)

http://www.microcity.com.br/felipe/Dscn0072.jpg
http://www.microcity.com.br/felipe/Dscn0073.jpg
http://www.microcity.com.br/felipe/Dscn0076.jpg
http://www.microcity.com.br/felipe/MZGL01.jpg
http://www.microcity.com.br/felipe/MZGL02.jpg
http://www.microcity.com.br/felipe/MZGL03.jpg
http://www.microcity.com.br/felipe/MZGL04.jpg
http://www.microcity.com.br/felipe/MZGL05.jpg
http://www.microcity.com.br/felipe/MZGL06.jpg
http://www.microcity.com.br/felipe/MZGL07.jpg

Check my review on those at:
http://www.harmony-central.com/Guita.../Strat-01.html