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Post by eljib on Jul 21, 2006 14:02:20 GMT -5
So, it all started when I got some free SD Nash Tele HB pups. I wanted to make a Nash tele but, since I can't live without the S-tastic Expanded scheme that Hastings developed for me, I needed to use three pots. But I like Leo's original designs and I didn't want to add an extra knob to a tele plate, so I decided on the usual strat setup. Then it all morphed into a project where the idea was to take a strat and a tele, and make two different guitars out of them without duplicating any design elements in either one (except for the pieces I already had, which were the Nash Tele pups). First effort came out as follows:  Then I settled on this:  It will have (hopefully) an additional switch where the tele output cup would usually be situated, recessed and everything, so as to maintain the "stock" appearance. So far its coming along nicely. What say you, my friends? -Aaron |
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Post by vonFrenchie on Jul 21, 2006 21:43:49 GMT -5
I would have gone with a tele style pickguard with an extra single coil... but it still looks pretty cool. One of the more original... eh uh... Telestratocasters I've seen.
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Post by ChrisK on Jul 21, 2006 21:58:13 GMT -5
Great. I love your drawings. I love hybrid designs because they're, well, different. I have one "in the oven". It will have the Rio Twang Bucker in the Rio bridge, a lipstick pickup in the middle, and a SD P-90 Stack in the neck.   The pickguard (I need something to cover the existing bridge humbucker pickup routing gaps) will most likely be a three-ply black circle or ellipse a la Zemaitis. I've been calling it the STrele (or Strelly) Caster. |
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Post by eljib on Jul 27, 2006 8:56:44 GMT -5
Nice. Be sure to post pics as you progress.
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Post by ChrisK on Jul 27, 2006 13:51:59 GMT -5
Progress?
I only started three years ago!
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Post by tacobobbo on Aug 30, 2006 14:14:11 GMT -5
OK........how about showing some updates pix............and I like BOTH of the ideas, BTW.
Bob
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Post by ChrisK on Sept 3, 2006 16:46:02 GMT -5
Well, I routed for the Rio Twang Bucker and the Rio bridge and for the SD P-90 Stack in the neck last winter, but I'm much too busy not finishing several other guitar build projects.
I bought a drill press that has a rotary table, so I can cut/mill circular pieces (including the outside curves of the ob-round Tele control plate), but I'll still have to employ string theory for any elliptical pieces (Q.E.D.).
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