r/telecaster

Cheap Thinline body. Mighty mite neck.

Tone rider pickups. I dig it.

As the title implies, i have little knowledge of telecasters and have been wanting to buy one, is this an old telecaster? Or is this one of those vint-aged reproductions fender did that makes it look old? I see that theres crackling all down the fret board and im assuming its old but i truly have no idea. Is the worth buying? any information is greatly appreciated!

I’ve made this telecaster from scratch the wiring part. When I put the multimeter on the sleeve of the output and on the cable tip when it’s in, I get no feedback. I had a messy soldering job before and I redid that and I am pretty sure I did everything correctly. Could someone please tell me what I am doing wrong?

£70 diy kit, £23 tuners, £13 saddles, Roller, shielding tape,

pickups used classic vibe alnico £40

Used some old squire pickguard and knobs

So £150 all in, it plays perfectly, straight neck, low action, the issue is it’s a leave alone one time to set up, the wood is very soft and light not for unscrewing and screwing more than 1 or 2 times, plus a little neck dive but for sitting down its comes to just under 2.5kg just under 5.5lbs,

Lightly Rolled Edges, sorted the frets and gave the neck some TLC

My shielding was done in a hurry and the fretboard wood is nothing major, for a beginner or hobby it has been great, and the frets are more shiny than my mexican tele now, to scared to touch the frets on my MiM,

Comparing to my mexican tele it just brings out that extra quality in the mexican when playing side by side, I guess once you have quality you feel the difference, sound wise it can get real close and more subjective imo,

The real question is what do I do with my diy guitar now?

After getting this telecaster a year ago I’ve always liked a hs style Tele and figured why not do my first mod ever to a 3k guitar

Picked up this B-bender Tele which is an absolute time capsule find (one owner who never played it). Still has the original plastic protective sticker covers on the metal parts as well as the pick guard 🤯 Its in as good condition as the day it left the store... Most importantly, it plays / sounds incredible! 🎸

Loved the sound, look, and history with teles . Andy Summers, Albert Collins, Danny Gatton, all inspiring. But every tele I tried sounded meh, felt meh, or both, until yesterday. Used my day off to trade in a bunch of old gear at the local music shop. As per usual, tried about 6-8 teles, meh. They had a pair of b-stock G&Ls, functionally brand new. Picked this one up and wow. Resonant unplugged and everything felt perfect. Neck has a knot on the 4th fret, so I tried its twin, which had an unblemished fretboard. Totally dead, meh. Got this and two used pedals even steven with the trade. I’m supposed to go to a bunch of parties today for the fourth, but honestly, I just want to play this thing until I can’t any more. Woot woot!

Do you think its still in tune?

I posted this for some funny comments and you people did not disappoint. Haha. How did i know there would be a comment on the tele's versatility. Dam.

Picked up a gorgeous player 2 tele on eBay in the $300s as a donor guitar for a Hipshot Parsons/Green bender project. British racing green with a roasted maple warmoth neck.

Today was phase one which included shielding the cavity, new electronics, new in-tune bridge and brass saddles, 4-way switch, and a new set of SD La Brea pickups. This thing sounds and plays unbelievable and now I’m having second thoughts about taking a router to it. Stay tuned for part 2 in a few weeks.

this is my first time building a telecaster and I’ve done everything from scratch. I’m up to the part where I’m wiring the telecaster and I’ve tried to do everything correct but it came out wrong. When I plug it in, there’s no sound and I checked the output jack and I checked if anything interfered and I don’t see no problem. I understand my soldering looks messy, but that’s because it’s my first time doing so. I tried to take some off, but that just simply doesn’t work. can someone please try to help me?

I bought this on the cheap as I wanted the tuners for a project. so really not bothered . It’s been badly drilled at the base aswell. There is an illegible serial and the stars make it look like a fake. To me it looks like a cheap neck bought from china, where someone has attempted to make it look real possibly for a Frankenstrat build. But wondered what everyone else’s opinion is?

Well, I finished my baby and I love it. Waiting for parts, stickers, the logo was the hardest part. Getting to know this thing inside and out has been a wonderful little project and I had a blast. It sounds incredible and I’ll have to do a little vid of Steelers tribute with it!

Edit: now with sound demo!

https://voca.ro/1kKeMqXjoAS4

I have an Epiphone Casino and 230 pounds. I want to fix this guitar and buy a Fender champion II 25. I also want to buy a Squier FMT SH telecaster. Should I fix my epiphone and buy a fender amp or get this telecaster? The epiphone would probably be about 30 to fix. What do I do??

Former owner said it was built/assembled by a local luthier and is nitro finished. Color is copper. For the pickups I have no idea of the make and model but they sound good. Only modifications i've done so far was changing the pickguard screws to black for a seamless, cleaner look