That’s exactly my reservations as well to be honest. Pretty sure they aren’t original as it should have P90’s in it.
But the look and finish is exactly what I love. I have a thing for maple necks and a natural wood finish.
Oooh P90s in a Tele - I dont normally like wood finish guitars, or at least the standard ‘burst’ versions, but you pick out good ones. This is very nice. Exciting time for you, picking up a Tele, I couldnt put it down, and still cant. Its weird, they’re so basic, but not…
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Stop it now. You’re winding me up before bed time.
Here’s an original one. Not sure about the scratch plate to be honest but the rest of it looks great. Not 100% about the F hole either but if it sounded right there would be naff all argument
Upgrading pups is always an option, I’d leave a Fender stock but again that’s just me. Not sure Walshy wants to go that way but it can be done should the need arise.
I saw conversation about a Tele with P90’s…its something that I’ve looked at building or buying a cheap guitar, filling in the existing pick up cavities, reducing the body thickness, adding on a solid maple cap and routing for twin P90’s. Maybe double binding and no scratch plate.
I’ve built an SG copy from scratch, not a kit, actually cut the body and neck from timber by hand. I used a pre cut fret board but i did all the other work myself including inserting the frets. I think it might be visable in some of the pictures i posted earlier in this thread.
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Go for it. Crossed my mind over recent months and there’s actually loads of examples out there, especially on ebay with people creating Tele’s from any piece of timber they come across. Some actually have a really nice relicked look to them.
we were discussing earlier about the joys of watching guitar luthiery. Love it myself but not sure if I’d be happy dressing the frets on 30 guitars a week or whatever.
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That’s stunning
Totally. Thats really my cup of tea. Very doable too. I’d go about it by buying a cheap tele and modding it.
I could just buy a neck and make the body from scratch either. I’ve never put binding on a guitar body but I’m sure I could do it.
The main reason I havent already done it is because it would cost somewhere between 4 and 500E and you can pick up a decent second hand guitar for that kind of money.
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My sentiments entirely, given uprating pups seems a must, although I wouldnt take on the advanced luthiery. Just get a good 90s Mex Tele and start there.
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It is. I hope to have a little workshop set up in the garage one day. I’ve got small benches and stuff set up but no light and power. I have started to run a cable to the garage though, so it will come.
There’s several gaps in my knowledge on guitar building but I think a big fear would be making sure I spec it right first time along with getting the workmanship 100% on things like the nut in particular.
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Im a woodwork teacher so have access to a full workshop with a machine shop alongside. On occasion students will make guitars instead of furniture for exam work. I have a Base that I was working on in my spare time but Covid has shut down schools at the moment. It was an old Aria base someone gave me, it had a battered body which i discovered was plywood so I was making a new body from Ash before we closed. The neck is perfect , good frets and a decent set of machine heads. It will need to be rewired and a new set of pickups but I’ll have a nice base for very little outlay. I’ll post pictures IF we get back to work and I get some spare time to finish it.
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Sensing a strong anti-humbucker vibe around here 
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Putting on some Black Sabbath and Saint Vitus to repulse the evil spirits… By the way, these EMG 57/66 have completely won me over. In my lack of knowledge, I assumed that active humbuckers are meant to be used mostly if you want some modern and/or sounds - but these things have soul. I’m finding it hard to dial in a warm clean tone but with overdrive on, I can hear every doom metal band ever speak to me though the amp.
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Sometimes, depends what you want to do, if its a really fucked up lead tone then you have to have humbuckers. I always apply this rule, fenders are more forgiving, and usually you have to run them on 6/7 on the volume pot. Great for rhythm and the strings bounce and voice well. Gibsons run on about 3/4 and you cannot hit a chord 
well you can but its mushy. Different tools entirely. But if we are doing a lead overlay, we get the LP out and hit it with some distortion and a very short delay on long feedback…divine, Fenders cant compete with that.
Yeah, don’t agree, but that’s the thing about opinions…
@Noo_Noo Worth the money?? Slight ding by strap holder. Looks a bit overpriced.
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I posted this in the music thread - I had forgotten just how great a guitarist this fella is. If I was half this good I would give up my day job.
darn those fingernails must be reinforced with steel to pick an acoustic 12 string like that.
I could never live with nails like that but have massive admiration for people that can play like that. Same with those that can play classical.