NGD! Coolest Tele Fender Never Made :-)

[Copperhead]

Here it is, a little finger printed up from tweaking on th setup non-stop for the last coupla days...

Neck: USA Custom Guitars Strat 22 fret, 25-1/2” scale, quarter sawn maple, pau ferro board, 14” radius, 6100, graphite rods, Gotoh tuners. Birchwood Casey TruOil back of headstock and neck, two coats then 0000 steel wool. Stew-Mac rattle can nitro lacquer on front of headstock.

Body: USA Custom Guitars Tele, Rib Cut, Forearm Contour, Contoured Heel, Body Binding. Swamp ash, grain not filled. W.D. Lockwood Ox Blood Red water-based stain, 10% IPA added. Grain burned with heat gun. Birchwood Casey TruOil, Meguiar’s carnauba wax.

Pickups: Bare Knuckle Nail Bomb bridge, Bare Knuckle Mississippi Queen neck. CTS 500k pots, .022mfd cap, vintage tone circuit.

Hardware: Original Floyd Rose, Dunlop Strap locks, Glendale Guitars Extreme Fat Neck Plate, Electrosocket.

 

[orangekick]

I like it.

 

[Digital Jams]

It came out great!!!

The forearm contour is a must, Gibsom=n and Fender will never learn that you play them not display them

 

[ratter]

The contour around the heel is awesome, and I love the grainy look. Congrats!

 

[Code001]

Looks nice. How's it sound?

 

[blackba]

Reminds me a big of the MIJ Contemporary tele I used to have. Did you build this guitar from parts or is it a fender custom shop job?

 

[Copperhead]

Looks nice. How's it sound?

The Nail Bomb OWNS!!!!
I first had a Cold Sweat in the neck....not the right choice. Practiced with the MQ, waaaay better.
Very clear, you can hear your fingers on the board. Never experienced that before. Tone is very even. Everything you play sounds golden and effortless. I never had an oil finished guitar before, it's like playing an acoustic loudly, you can feel the vibrations in your fretting hand and your body. Full chords stay in tune with the bass notes not sounding clunky all the way up the fretboard, for instance D/F# barred at 14.
Bass notes are not as bright as a Wolfgang clean, E and A strings. Not at all a bad thing, very round and balanced, just different than what I'm used to. Feels great.

 

[Copperhead]

Reminds me a big of the MIJ Contemporary tele I used to have. Did you build this guitar from parts or is it a fender custom shop job?

USA Custom Guitars Parts-O-Caster!

 

[stefvorcide]

Looks awesome !!!

 

[Phrygian]

Looks great!

 

[Copperhead]

Thanks guys! Next up is a mahogany Strat......

 

[stephen sawall]

Looks great. That vibration / acoustic thing is a very good sign. The sound you describe is what I look for in a guitar. Mahogany Strat now were talking .....

 

[rupe]

Great build...I dig it!