Friday, December 30, 2011

My Tele project is finally DONE!!!

And there she is, in all of her beat to hell glory! I've got a bunch of pics on my Facebook page right now - www.facebook.com/stressedoutguitars, and I'll have some HD ones on my actual website - www.stressedoutguitars.com. But for now, she's lookin' good! I still want to pick at the electronics some. I want to add a couple of mini-toggles with some fun mods, and I want to switch out the neck pickup with something funky like a mini-humbucker or another P-90 like I had in my other black Tele. I'm leaning towards a mini-hum, since that's an option I've never had in one of my own Tele's before. The only thing I don't like about that is that it'll look similar to the setup of Fender's '52 Hot Rod Tele. But maybe I can deal with that... I'm going to be asking Jon Baxter about a custom wind on both of those. I want another Nine-Five in the bridge for sure, regardless of what I put in the neck position. And I'm going to get them both 4-conductor so I can do some crazy sh** to the wiring. So many options, so little money! :) 

But at any rate, this thing sounds and plays awesome right now! The pickups were donated by my best bud - it's a Fender USA Standard in the bridge and a Fender USA Vintage in the neck. They really do sound great, but I'm probably going to spend my life tweaking this thing. I'll open it up for you guys when I get my new pickups and post some pics of the wiring afterward. 

Thanks for reading!

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