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    HAWT for Teles!

    Here's a quick pic of two of my home grown T style guitars for ya'll'z.

    The one on the left is a thinline I built "many moons ago" from a Fender body I bought from CurtisStetka. Started life as a solid body and ended up in my shop where I took a router to it, hogged out some wood, capped it, and had it painted. It has a real "F" stamped Bigsby from the 60's and some custom metal work on it. Right now she's wearing a donor Peavey neck, and the pup will be swapped out next week for a Peter Florance Voodoo TE60-GR. It's a real fun guitar to play, very woody and organic sounding. I'm also gonna change the neck out, hopefully soon. I'm getting a StewMac all maple Tele neck to put on her. I'm also changing the saddles back to steel, I need more "ZING" out of this baby!

    The other Tele I built the body for from an Alder blank. Gave it the Krylon touch and slammed a "U" shaped neck on it. Pups are Reed James Engineering, low wound HB in the neck and a stocker bridge pup. I do have a blank chrome plate to replace the plastic that's on there now. This guitar I'm building for my homeslice Chris, so there's been a little fiddlin' with things to get it right for him. We'll be changing out the tuners for Gotohs, and adding a cover to the neck pup.

    I've been on a Tele kick as of late, and dug these out as I've been pickin'n'grinnin on my homebrewed bastardized Baja. That one sports a MIM Tele Deluxe neck, G&L ASAT Classic lead pup, and a Lawrence BL250 Strat neck pup. It's a KILLER!!! But after playing it so much at church I'm jonesing for either a Carbonita or 72 Deluxe RI to round out my little stable. My goal is to have a couple Teles that each do it's own thing. The Baja Bastage does my Keefy/Neil Young thing, the Thinline Bigsby does the airy/flutey thing, and the next one I get will be more "alt country rockin". I'm really digging the idea of WideRange HB's or Filtertrons.

    I hope you guys enjoy the pic, not the best, but you get the idea of what crazy shit I do... As if you weren't aware! Take care everyone, have a good one.

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    Re: HAWT for Teles!

    Man, I dig those Teles. I'm impressed with your work!
    If we'd known we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.--George Harrison

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    Re: HAWT for Teles!

    ˇGracias muchacho! I really should get a "family pic" up. I like to think of my house as "Chuck's Home For Wayward Guitars"...
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    Very cool! One day I'll build a Tele with dual 'Buckers in it- kind of a fenderless Ford roadster with a small block Chevy in it.

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    You thinking along the lines of what Jeff Beck did? I TOTALLY dig that Tele!!! Olde skool kool in my book.
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    Chuck, you're the mad scientist of guitar builders! I dig it!
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    Chuckenstein! It's alive, ALIVE!!!!
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    Re: HAWT for Teles!

    Quote Originally Posted by chuckocaster View Post
    You thinking along the lines of what Jeff Beck did? I TOTALLY dig that Tele!!! Olde skool kool in my book.
    Before I bought a 5E3 clone I had though about doing this to my T-Style. I never bonded with it until I heard it though that amp. Now I like it as it is with almost any amp.

    One day I'll get around to building another. Maybe I'll just uby an MIM Tele and hack it up style!

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    Re: HAWT for Teles!

    Who you calling a ? ! I'm so jonesing for a Carbonita or 72 Deluxe RI. I love my Baja and Thinline, but want something with a Gretsch vibe.

    And hacking up an MIM is the way to go in my book! But then again, a 50s Classic Vibe is pretty appealing too...
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