What's up with this Telecaster plan?

[dickjonesify]

IMO everyone should work out their own dimensions for the important stuff. Blindly following a drawing from the internet and using it to cut expensive wood is not a good idea. If you learn what the critical dimensions are it will serve you very well down the road.

dickjonesify - he's having trouble with the neck, I believe, and that is just the body. I'll check and see if I have a drawing later to post.

Regards PEter.

True. That’s why I would wait to place the bridge.

Here’s a neck drawing I have.

 

[Leroy]

The original is still downloadable if you use the wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/2011051...smusic.com/Archive/Tele_body_drawing_revE.pdf

Leroy

 

[lowatter]

Thats the second time I saw this plan linked recently, but the links in that forum post are dead

Hmmm. Someone planning a Tele build perhaps? Maybe the Maple Leafs will win the Stanley Cup this year!

 

[Skyjerk]

Hmmm. Someone planning a Tele build perhaps? Maybe the Maple Leafs will win the Stanley Cup this year!

Don't hold your breath

 

[Marty M.]

Thats the second time I saw this plan linked recently, but the links in that forum post are dead

post 585 in that thread (and beyond) has working links.....

 

[Skyjerk]

post 585 in that thread (and beyond) has working links.....

LOL.

Can anyone imagine me reading that far into a thread in order to get plans for a telecaster?

 

[ARandall]

The title would be your limit

 

[D'tar]

 

[Skyjerk]

The title would be your limit

LOL

It's always nice to be understood by ones peers

 

[Freddy G]

lol the only reason I clicked on this thread was because I saw Skyjerk's name as the last poster....I thought WTF!???

 

[ARandall]

Well, its very long odds, but hell could have frozen over

 

[Open_Book]

LOL.

Can anyone imagine me reading that far into a thread in order to get plans for a telecaster?

Everyone. Its your guilty pleasure. And, when you finally build one - because like the sun rises and sets its a given - you'll be asking yourself why it took so long. Resistance is futele.. Its in your futeleure. I'm just tele-ing you.

 

[Skyjerk]

lol the only reason I clicked on this thread was because I saw Skyjerk's name as the last poster....I thought WTF!???

Well, I know the entire USA has gone off the rails this year, but there are still some fundamental laws of nature that have not been abridged

 

[Skyjerk]

Everyone. Its your guilty pleasure. And, when you finally build one - because like the sun rises and sets its a given - you'll be asking yourself why it took so long. Resistance is futele.. Its in your futeleure. I'm just tele-ing you.

If it were not for the fact that I live clean and sober I'd say "Give me 10 bucks worth of whatever you are smokin"

 

[ARandall]

Maybe you just need the right headstock.....I mean since you've spent all that time re-jigging your pre CBS strat headstock template you could put one of them on a Tele.....or something like this:

(damn that auto-rotate!!)

 

[Open_Book]

If it were not for the fact that I live clean and sober I'd say "Give me 10 bucks worth of whatever you are smokin"

Its the fumes of a Bakelite pickguard. Just don't tele anyone.

 

[Skyjerk]

Maybe you just need the right headstock.....I mean since you've spent all that time re-jigging your pre CBS strat headstock template you could put one of them on a Tele.....or something like this:
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(damn that auto-rotate!!)

See now I could get my head around one like that, but that's because it doesn't have any of the worst features (IMO) of the Tele (headstock, pickups, bridge) and I think most might argue that those are "defining" features