2011 Telecaster Build Challenge Entry
This guitar is constructed with a chambered alder core with bookmatched Honduran mahoganytop and back. The sides, also Honduran mahogany, are hand bent to the shape of the body.
This gives the look of an acoustic guitar where no end grain is visable. The body is double
bound in flame maple with a flame maple keystone at the tail. The mahogany neck is glued in at
a 3 degree angle to allow the use of the wrap-around bridge. This permanent joint offers
better tone and sustain over a bolted neck joint.
The guitar is base coated in Tru-Oil for color, top coated with Target Coatings EM6000 waterbourne lacquer,
and polished to a high gloss using Menzerna compounds and MicroMesh papers.
Bridge Pickup Sound Samples
The electronics in this guitar are not your average Tele. Dual Golden Age humbuckersare the first leap away from tradition. It has a 500K volume pot as you would expect
with humbuckers, but a 250K pot and .047mf Orange Drop cap are used for the tone circuit to
offer more precise control over a narrower sweep range.
The bridge pickup is wired with an on/on/on switch that allows series, coil cut, parallel options.
These can be combined with the neck pickup through use of the traditional 3-way switch.
Played through a Marshall Class 5 combo. Miced with a Shure SM57 tight to the grill,
slightly off-axis. Recorded into Cubase 5 where a touch of reverb was added.
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Dirty SeriesDirty Coil Cut
Dirty Parallel
Clean Series
Clean Coil Cut
Clean Parallel
This guitar ahs been featured in Target Coatings Newsletter.
