yeah ok, its a build thread and worse than that its for a tele...

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Is there a benefit with truss-less?

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telefiend wrote:Is there a benefit with truss-less?
A self warping neck
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What about rear-mounting (oo'er) the neck pickup? That could look pretty awesome.

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Molly wrote:How heavy is heavy? My '93 Tele US Standard is my lightest guitar at just 6.75lbs so I figure a heavy Tele might push 8 lbs?

Wouldn't want you to go to all this trouble then never play the guitar because it's a dead weight.
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It is in my world, I hate fucking buzzy hummy noise ;)
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SimpleSi wrote:
telefiend wrote:Is there a benefit with truss-less?
A self warping neck
I mean, that's what I figured..

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telefiend wrote:Is there a benefit with truss-less?
Yep, you never need to adjust it :D and the toanz!!!!
no hollow route in the neck to detract from the tone - allegedly.

Because its made from kwilla, which is the second strongest material known to man, after unobtainium, it will never warp.

Oh also, it'll look awesome in deck shots!
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Bg wrote:
telefiend wrote:Is there a benefit with truss-less?
Yep, you never need to adjust it :D and the toanz!!!!
no hollow route in the neck to detract from the tone - allegedly.

Because its made from kwilla, which is the second strongest material known to man, after unobtainium, it will never warp.

Oh also, it'll look awesome in deck shots!
Ah, I see. Kwilla is the concrete of the wood world. And also Kwilla = killer (toan)

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well the theory is that if you don't have a big slot routed in it = better toan. But from my point of view, it saves me arseing around with a seperate fretboard, routing for a trussrod and sticking the fretboard on OR routing from behind and fitting a skunk stripe. In theory then an easier build for a neck. In practice, its not such a big deal doing a seperate fretboard, just a bit more time really.
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bender wrote:What about rear-mounting (oo'er) the neck pickup? That could look pretty awesome.
Yeah I'm tossing (oo'er) up between that or modifying the pickup and removing the screw 'ears' and the part where the wires go in so it can front mount in the same sized slot as the cover. Height adjustment would be by packing and double sided tape though, but hardly a chore after its set up right.

Ah perhaps I'm being too precious, its not highly figured, just a nice bit of grain really.
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You could put a Filtertron or P90 in the neck.
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Nah definitely going stock tele neck pup, that's why I like them.
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Anything over 10lbs would be dead-weight to me. Wasn't saying 8lbs was.

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Jvpp, quick question... What did you do about relief?
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Bg wrote:Jvpp, quick question... What did you do about relief?
I did a huge post this morning about this - but can't have sent it. When Adrian did my one, he said you leave fret leveling etc to last, and then set the relief with the fret levels. Depending on the resistance of the Kwila, you might have pick one string gauge and stick with that.
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