well made, early American style. After many years (we have been married a while), the table was pretty beat up (as tends to happen with soft wood and children), and we had moved past our early American scheme of decor. What to do with the sizeable, high quality, and well aged hunk of pine. I thought I was deviating from tradition by deciding to make myself a tele out of a portion of the old table. I learned later that some of the early Fenders were made from pine. To stay with the soft wood choice, why not cap the body with a beautifully figured piece of redwood that I had on hand. The result is a light weight and resonant body. It’s not likely to hold up well to abuse; it probably would fare poorly in a bar room fight. But light and resonant is a fair trade in my estimation.
I continued the junk yard dog theme by recycling an old Squire strat neck. The neck came from my nephew's piece of crap Squire; the neck was the only thing on the guitar worth salvaging. I stripped off the rosewood fingerboard and replaced it with maple (this kind of guitar just has to have a maple fingerboard). I squared off the butt to fit a tele neck joint and reshaped the headstock (kind of a strat/tele blend).
I made this guitar for myself. Why? Because I didn’t have a tele, and everyone gots
to have a tele. This has become my go-
This guitar is a bit of a junk yard dog. The body is solid pine, made from an old kitchen table. The table was the first furniture purchase after my wife and I were married. The table was
Electronics include a vintage voiced tele bridge pickup, a strat pickup in the middle,
and a P90 in the neck. The P90 has a more muscular response that blends well with
the tele bridge. The strat middle pickup is reverse wound, reverse polarity to give
those strat-
All in all, I really like this guitar and would like to make some other along the same line.