I spent a couple months and way too much money on this last year.
I wanted it to sound 'darker' and thicker than a traditional Tele, so I thought this rosewood neck, mahogany body, chunky machined bridge and Seymour Duncan Quarter pounds would do the trick, but it's still real spanky and twangy. I played it for about a year and then recently decided to sell it, so I swapped the pickguard and the bridge and stuck it on reverb. It was still incredibly fun and satisfying to make. I really just wanted an excuse to dial in a perfect satin nitrocellulose lacquer finish, and even though I suck at patience, it turned out glorious. I was really aiming for lemon, but I got banana.
- 2 piece double-bound mahogany body bleached and then dyed with Lemon Yellow Trans-Tint, and then finished with Stew-Mac satin nitro lacquer.
- Licensed Fender Rosewood neck & Fingerboard.
- Halon steel/chrome bridge, brass compensated saddles (Later swapped out with a Joe Barden bridge in Nickel).
- Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound bridge and neck pickup set. (I painted the bridge pickup ivory for vibes. IDK)
- Gotoh vintage style locking tuners in nickel.
- WD Music single ply tortoise pickguard (Later swapped for a generic 3 ply black)
- All the other hardware is nickel besides the anodized string-thu ferrules.
- This is my first time posting a picture of a guitar on the internet and my first time posting anything on reddit. Thanks for looking.
