Tele Custom ´72 mahogany project

Painting? Routing? Set-up tips? Or just straight-up making a guitar from scratch? Post here, and post pics!

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Tele Custom ´72 mahogany project

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Got a nice older Bach Telecaster Standard, they build many of their guitars with mahogany body, which is interesting for a special Tele Custom build..

the original bridge singlecoil sounds nice, bridge with notched brass saddles..

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ok, hard work first..

neck pickup cavity hacked with wood knives..this mahogany body is really light, smells nice and is really dark colored.
control cavity hacking was most work ( forgot to take fotos).. :lol:


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fret levelling and recrowning..left some scratches on the maple fretboard because I only covered it with cheap tape..
masking tape is much better..lesson learned. 8)
maybe I fix that later..

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body through holes look a bit off-centered, so I drilled them a notch wider, so that the strings don´t touch wood anymore..

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huge pickguard cut from a 45x40 cm piece
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coming together..

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string trees make a huge difference on the Tele..

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blackface copy knobs

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neck pickup is a Vanson Alnico II humbucker, wired out of phase, sounds great in middle position..

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