Finished Uncle's Tele.

Right! I have now finished this, well I finished it a lil while ago now, but haven't got around to uploading anything yet! I will put the rest of the book on here, and the other pictures. Great satisfaction! And my Uncle loved it! :-D.


Stage 3 – Combining the Body with the Neck.

Right. The title of this pretty much sum's up this stage, but I will go into a little more detail. After the body was done, I had to adjust the neck pocket a bit so the neck would sit in straight. Then I drilled the holes in both the neck and body to screw the neck on. I used a gold neckplate to match the hardware.Stage 4 - The HardwareNow that the body and neck were done, I needed to put the machineheads, bridge, ferrules, string tree, strap pins and jack socket in. I decided gold was quite a good colour to go with the cream pickguard and natural wood body.





Stage 5 – Pickups and Electrics

After all the other stuff, now was the time to put the pickups in and wire them up to the control assembly. The bridge rail pickup has been attached to the bridge and then the bridge screwed in to secure it. The neck pickup has been fitted into the pickguard and then the pickguard fitted as well. The reason I chose a rail pickup instead of a traditional tele style pickup, is because of you being left handed, so the signal is even, all the way across the range of the strings. If It was a standard pole pickup it may have not sounded quite right if the poles were set up for the strings being right handed. Plus the rail pickup sounds nice and looks kind of different.



Conclusion

The whole way through this project, I have kept telling myself: “You are not a professional, it's not going to be perfect” And quite honestly it isn't at all perfect. I have tried my best to make it good, so I hope you like it! I'm not completely satisfied with the body finish, but hopefully it will suit you. Another bit that keeps bugging me is the pickguard. I had to cut a bit off, as it went over the F hole. And I've cut it a bit wonky. Really Annoying! It all works though! Plus somehow, there is a tiny chip off the lacquer on the neck, which again is really bloody annoying!I really do hope you like it! And that it serves you well either as a decoration or an instrument that you could use for your music.