I'm planning a telecaster project, mostly using guitarfetish parts. It's called the LeoCaster, in honor of Leo Fender and because of its "lion overlooking the African savannah sunrise" theme. Here are the components:
Guitarfetish ash tele body in transparent butterscotch:
http://store.guitarfetish.com/soashtestbot.html $60
Guitarfetish maple vintage amber neck:
http://store.guitarfetish.com/testnemaviam.html $35
Wilkinson compensated bridge, gold:
http://store.guitarfetish.com/wicotebrgowi.html $33
Guitarfetish lipstick bridge pickup, gold:
http://store.guitarfetish.com/neprotulipif1.html $41
Guitarfetish vintage neck pickup, gold:
http://store.guitarfetish.com/altepigocovi.html $25
Guitarfetish 14:1 tuners, gold:
http://store.guitarfetish.com/gosusmgost14.html $24
Greasygroove tele pickguard, lion face:
http://www.greasygroove.com/proddeta...11-PG-F-S-D-TC $30
Stewart MacDonald Black Ice tweed distortion circuit (replaces the tone cap - I never use the tele tone control):
http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Electron...Overdrive.html $28
Guitarfetish hardware (jack, plates, knobs, screws, straplocks, pots, switch, shielding, tee), gold:
http://store.guitarfetish.com/tegocoplvist.html $73
Total: $359 in parts for a kickass tele that looks like a lion surveying an African sunrise, with all gold hardware. The only modification I plan to make is to change the headstock shape to a more traditional fender style and add headstock lettering that says LEOCASTER. I'll be toploading the strings, so I don't care about the non-standard string holes in the body.
What do you think? Any comment will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
John Richards
San Francisco