DirtySteve
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I'm going to try to make a very long story short so bare with me.
This was my first parts build back in 2013. It's been thru many changes, lots of experimenting and lots of mistakes along the way. Korina body and I don't remember what the neck was. Originally it had a Tele style bridge with a HB mount, a single humbucker and a volume control. I can't seem find a pic of the initial build, sorry, but this is basically what it was to start with except for the bridge. I soon realized I didn't like the bridge at all so I swapped it for this half Tele bridge and added the pickup mounting ring and here's a pic of that.
After a couple of years when I was building other guitars I wasn't playing this one much and since I didn't have much money in it and I had always wanted to know what a P90 was all about I decided what the hell and I routed out 2 of the corners of the HB route to fit a P90 in it. I bought a Seymour Duncan Hot P90 (because I'm a huge Mike Ness fan), I didn't like the ceramic magnet thing it had going on so I swapped the magnets out for A2s. Perfect! That mini switch was a direct to jack.
But there was this huge gap behind the pickup..
I wanted to try different neck pickups so I ended up routing it out for a P90 neck pickup and added the pickguard to cover up my sloppy dremel work, the control plate is because with a pick guard it looked funny without it. I tried several different pickups in the neck, P90, Tele neck pickups and mini humbuckers. Here's one version of it with a custom control plate and by this time it had ended up with a short scale conversion neck and that neck has stayed, Wenge with a Ziricote fretboard...
Eventually I figured out that I just like the single bridge P90 and a volume knob so for a while now it's looked like this. The switch and tone knob haven't been hooked up for a while...
Now, it was my intention since the P90 install to replace the body on this as soon as I figured out exactly what it was going to be so I decided now was the time. Another thing I wanted to do when I replaced the body was to go with a TOM and Stopbar and get away from the Fender style bridge that makes the strings sit so low to the body, it's uncomfortable for me to play so I got this new body with an angle neck pocket to accommodate the Tom bridge without having to recess it and end up with the same thing.
So here's my new body and as far as I'm concerned my new old guitar!
I'm super happy with it even tho it still needs some setup work.
Raw body...
A little dark brown dye to hopefully make it match the neck better..
Finished with Tru-oil...
...and all put together and ready for a final set up!
And in case anyone likes to see wiring, I don't believe in cutting off excess, you never know when you might need it..
Final Specs are...
Black Korina Tele Body, tummy and forearm contours with angle neck pocket, TOM and Stopbar.
SD hot P90 with A2 magnet swap, single volume, no tone
Short scale conversion Wenge neck with Ziricote fretboard, Shaller M6 mini tuners.
Total beast!! I couldn't be happier with it!
What would you call this, a Tele Jr? lol!
This was my first parts build back in 2013. It's been thru many changes, lots of experimenting and lots of mistakes along the way. Korina body and I don't remember what the neck was. Originally it had a Tele style bridge with a HB mount, a single humbucker and a volume control. I can't seem find a pic of the initial build, sorry, but this is basically what it was to start with except for the bridge. I soon realized I didn't like the bridge at all so I swapped it for this half Tele bridge and added the pickup mounting ring and here's a pic of that.
After a couple of years when I was building other guitars I wasn't playing this one much and since I didn't have much money in it and I had always wanted to know what a P90 was all about I decided what the hell and I routed out 2 of the corners of the HB route to fit a P90 in it. I bought a Seymour Duncan Hot P90 (because I'm a huge Mike Ness fan), I didn't like the ceramic magnet thing it had going on so I swapped the magnets out for A2s. Perfect! That mini switch was a direct to jack.
But there was this huge gap behind the pickup..
I wanted to try different neck pickups so I ended up routing it out for a P90 neck pickup and added the pickguard to cover up my sloppy dremel work, the control plate is because with a pick guard it looked funny without it. I tried several different pickups in the neck, P90, Tele neck pickups and mini humbuckers. Here's one version of it with a custom control plate and by this time it had ended up with a short scale conversion neck and that neck has stayed, Wenge with a Ziricote fretboard...
Eventually I figured out that I just like the single bridge P90 and a volume knob so for a while now it's looked like this. The switch and tone knob haven't been hooked up for a while...
Now, it was my intention since the P90 install to replace the body on this as soon as I figured out exactly what it was going to be so I decided now was the time. Another thing I wanted to do when I replaced the body was to go with a TOM and Stopbar and get away from the Fender style bridge that makes the strings sit so low to the body, it's uncomfortable for me to play so I got this new body with an angle neck pocket to accommodate the Tom bridge without having to recess it and end up with the same thing.
So here's my new body and as far as I'm concerned my new old guitar!
I'm super happy with it even tho it still needs some setup work.Raw body...
A little dark brown dye to hopefully make it match the neck better..
Finished with Tru-oil...
...and all put together and ready for a final set up!
And in case anyone likes to see wiring, I don't believe in cutting off excess, you never know when you might need it..
Final Specs are...
Black Korina Tele Body, tummy and forearm contours with angle neck pocket, TOM and Stopbar.
SD hot P90 with A2 magnet swap, single volume, no tone
Short scale conversion Wenge neck with Ziricote fretboard, Shaller M6 mini tuners.
Total beast!! I couldn't be happier with it!
What would you call this, a Tele Jr? lol!
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