haha, bumping this shit up to show people I'm serious
...So, this has happened.
Pickups are SD hots, body is an MIM thing that was covered in paisley paper (and then bursted in an effed way, requiring me to remove the stuff from the front...) though when I think about it, to replicate this is novel, as it'll cover all of my probably yet to be shitty routes and bondo work
Contemplating other fabrics, but not plaid, despite the irony...
It'll probably wind up painted though. Some sort of surf/orange pearl? Thinking it'll have the stripe in any case... I've got all the parts either here or on order atm except for the pickguard (guitarfetish is backordered on the one I want) and bridge cups, time to practice with my router work other than that. The speedknobs are staying cause I love them (already own them
)
Hopefully I can get objects screwed on straight rather than the normal diagonal way my eyes usually find when I try to draw a straight line... lots and lots of measuring...
Contemplated a Deluxe pickguard, but those are a bit too ugly IMO, as much as I think Teles are ugly in general (actually
), though the ugliness is part of the appeal to me, especially with a Deluxe... Though the Thinlinish thing up there might still be a contender.
As for the switching... What if I were to do this...
Nashville John Mayer Mustang Teletubby turns things into boners.
As I have a couple stray CIJ Jag things around, but before I tart it up that way I'll get it working proper with two pickups. Anyway, whatever the configuration it will have a strat 5 way switch and the 3 way dpdt minitoggle so I'm contemplating options... bridge/out of phase/parallel/series/neck? And how about a bright/dark mode from that dpdt... Unseen are crappy matte black sperzel lockers that I had extras of and are now installed and everyone will lol at, one is missing a thumbwheel haha.
Anyway, here's a mockup of what it more or less should look like soon (taken before routes)
