Finally finished the hollow goldtop tele

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Hi all,
I finally finished building my hollow goldtop telecaster.
It is a hollow swamp ash tele from warmoth, without f-holes, ebony board, abalone inlays, Seymour Duncan humbucking pickups with custom wiring job I do in all my teles.

This thing is light- body is about 3 lbs.
Hollow body gives a lovely resonant tone- the gold finish looks great especially with the matching peghead.

Still waiting for parts to be delivered so I can put a kill switch in.

Here it is:

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Here is another pic....

[2leod]

Niiice...

I like the neck! I did some work on a '50s era tele replica- the guy wanted the three bar bridge plate so I machined him up eccentric offset bars to get the intonation right.

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Originally Posted by 2leod

Niiice...

I like the neck! I did some work on a '50s era tele replica- the guy wanted the three bar bridge plate so I machined him up eccentric offset bars to get the intonation right.

Thanks.
Cool on the offset bars...
Do you have more?

I am a tele player- but I ALWAYS put a 6 saddle bridge in them otherwise the intonation drives me bonkers.

The fingerboard is macassar ebony- just like my 80's Kinman tele that I have been playing for about 17 years now. I don't particularly like rosewood or maple necks anymore- it just feels so right with the ebony.

[Musiclab]

I'm with you I LOVE ebony boards, then I really like maple. I'm lackadaisical about rosewood. 3/lb.s wow thats light, very nice. So other than the pickups it's all warmoth?

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Hey,

No- all the electronics were sourced elsewhere.
Machine heads are klusons, string trees I have no idea- my local repair shop had them.
Bridge is Gotoh.
Strap locks are Schaller.

I put it all together, did the electronics, dressed the frets.
Next project is going to be another one, but this time I'll do the finish myself.

A suburst thinline I think.

[2leod]

Originally Posted by richmondjames

Cool on the offset bars...
Do you have more?

Naw, it was a one-off custom. I took the spring screws out and tightened the strings back up, angled the bars back till each set of strings intonated properly with the others and measured their distances to the back of the plate. He wanted to make them like that, with the spring screw holes drilled and tapped on those angles - I think he'd seen Danny Gatton with a tele like that - but I thought it looked better with the offset bars. It was more work and fussier to make though...

Let me know if you want someone near you to make them, I'll shoot you some sketches.

[Blast9]

Wilkinson does adjustable off-set saddles, which I'm definitely gonna get. The off-set ones I have are not adjustable, and intonation is fine, however it goes out if I change the g string to a wound one.

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Guitar looks fab --- What kind of Duncan is it? And what's the wiring config do?

Standard PUP in the neck?

[analogtodd]

Nice...
I don't think that there is anything I don't like about that guitar

Gold
Lightweight
Tele

NIIIIIiiiice
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Originally Posted by Blast9

Wilkinson does adjustable off-set saddles, which I'm definitely gonna get. The off-set ones I have are not adjustable, and intonation is fine, however it goes out if I change the g string to a wound one.

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Guitar looks fab --- What kind of Duncan is it? And what's the wiring config do?

Standard PUP in the neck?

The bridge is a hotrails, the neck is a vintage stack humbucker- with a 0.001uF cap for treble bleed.
2 push pull pots give me a series/parallel on the neck (volume) and bridge (tone).
The kill switch is just before the output- a push off momentary switch.

Nothing too intense- it gives me enough options to go out live- I have the same configuration in my Kinman Telecaster.

Thinking of going perloid on the scratchplate- might be a bit too much though.

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