A Tele with EMGs

[Eric'45]

There is some story behind it. Some years ago, I wanted to build a partscaster with the maple neck of my Mexican Tele. I bought an assortment of parts, from Rockinger and started messing around. I have to admit I didn't really know what I was doing, and something was not right about the guitar. To make a long story short, I ended up bolting the maple Neck back to the mexican body where it came from, and all was well. Some time later I moved and so I kinda forgot I had a spare Telecaster Body somewhere. I had dyed it a dark Red and finished it in Satin Nitro.
Yesterday I stumbled upon an ad for a set of active Telecaster PUs.
What I have now is a dark Red Swamp Ash Body from Rockinger and a set of Active Tele PUs from EMG. I have ordered a Blck single- ply Pickguard and a complete set of gold Hardware from Thomann which is due sometime this week.

And now comes the fun part: I also have a slab of Wenge wood and I will try to build a Neck for this Body from scratch. I have tried this before, but i messed up the fretboard radius and I had ordered the wrong fretwire .
Now I have cut two Wenge Fingerboard blanks and a third from Palisander. Let's see how that will turn out this time.

 

[Seamus OReally]

I am told that EMG Tele set totally kills.

 

[Eric'45]

I am told that EMG Tele set totally kills.

I see you got a Strat with EMGs. Are they A5 or Ceramic Magnets?

I like metal and harder styles, but I was always drawn more to the "classic" and more traditional forms of it.
I have obviously not tried this yet. But I recently had the chance to test a guitar with one of the more vintage- oriented Humbucker sets, and that has changed my perception of Active PUs.

I had hoped the 9V battery would fit into the elctronics cavity, as the Pots are not that big, but no. So I ordered a Gotoh Battery Box.

 

[Seamus OReally]

A5 magnets in the X-Series, I believe. I’ve used EMGs in my primary guitar for 30 years. They do everything well.