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theshadowofseattle · Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2018 12:23 am Post subject: Telecaster Build Day!

This is the bridge pickup. I got it in a craigslist buy. I think it's a quarter pounder strat bridge pickup caulked onto a tele pickup ground plate.

Ground wire strung through the wire hole for the bridge pickup since I didn't see anywhere else to put it.

This shit DID NOT WANT TO FIT IN THE PICKUP ROUTE. This was a huge pain to get in there and then screw down, but I made it work. The pickup height adjustment screws don't work now, so I'll eventually have to sort out a replacement, I guess. This works for now.

Neck pickup is a Bill Lawrence I got in a local shop's parts bin. The pickguard is CNC cut from eBay and had not one but TWO layers of clear plastic film over it.

The control plate I got doesn't fit my killswitch, which sucks. I'd drill it out, but all of large drill bits are at school for my engineering team.

The guts. Notice that I wired the bridge to the wrong terminals, so it was on with the both on setting, but not in the bridge only setting. I've since fixed it.

JACK PLATE. Holes done totally freehand.

All in there.

Ready for strings.

All done, fit and tested.

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Noirie. · YOUTH Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 4472

I read this thread with the end credits to Speed rolling. Was sick.

A+

Fran · Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2018 3:47 pm Post subject:

Nice.

I like an Rick Parfitt white Tele with black guard. I had one on mine but went gold anodized, kind of miss the black one.

Good work.
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Bacchus · Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2018 4:27 pm Post subject:

I like that. It's a very light shade of black, though.
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BillClay · . Joined: 28 Jun 2010 Posts: 1287

Looks real cool man

theshadowofseattle · Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2018 10:59 pm Post subject:

kingkiller · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 1:34 pm Post subject:

How does the neck pickup sound? Even though Iâ€™m staunchly in the â€œfuck an neck positionâ€ camp, Iâ€™ve never heard a Bill Lawrence pickup
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sunshiner · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 2:56 pm Post subject:

"Tyoo-dyay is gonna be the dyay that I'm gonna byuild me Tyele dyuudes"
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theshadowofseattle · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 3:00 pm Post subject:

sunshiner · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 3:05 pm Post subject:

Them tonewoods aren't proper ones
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theshadowofseattle · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 3:12 pm Post subject:

sunshiner · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 4:59 pm Post subject:

I'm just kidding, it's my stupid way to explain why you have a thin sound coming out of your neck pickup
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theshadowofseattle · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 5:17 pm Post subject:

Oh, I got that; I'm just a killjoy and also wanted to identify the parts.
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sunshiner · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 5:56 pm Post subject:

kingkiller · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 11:46 pm Post subject:

plopswagon · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 7:09 pm Post subject: Re: Telecaster Build Day!

singlepup · . Joined: 10 Dec 2010 Posts: 4014 Location: San Diego

Since I am now an official Tele-lover, I loved this thread as well.

theshadowofseattle · Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2018 9:21 pm Post subject:

singlepup · . Joined: 10 Dec 2010 Posts: 4014 Location: San Diego

Ooof sorry to hear that. Is it possible to cure that sort of thing just by raising the action?

robroe · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2018 12:33 pm Post subject: