Show us your Telecasters

[willow13]

The neck on that one is kwila, not rosewood. No truss rod.

Wow! Cool! Never played a kwila necked guitar in my life.

I am in the middle of making one...meant to be very similar to maple tone wise I think

[bender]

+1. That neck is awesome.

Agreed.
Rosewood necked guitars are one of my favourite things, yet I've never owned one. They lend a wonderful attack characteristic to the note and just look and feel amazing.

The neck on that one is kwila, not rosewood. No truss rod.

Adrian!

Good Representation on this thread.

[Les_Paul86]

The neck on that one is kwila, not rosewood. No truss rod.

Wow! Cool! Never played a kwila necked guitar in my life.

I am in the middle of making one...meant to be very similar to maple tone wise I think

It's amaze-balls, so grunty, does a great SRV. Such a smooth finish on it too so feels great as well as sounding beastly.
Does all the usual Tele sounds too.

[ash]

I tried kwila in a number of formats including a whole Aurum guitar and just fretboards, but as a no-truss rod, no-finish neck is definitely the winner. I have a strat neck twin of that one still here for future use and a big chunk of very nice quarter sawn kwila that came from a member here Aaron, that is also earmarked for no-truss rod, no-finish necks on my own designs. That's a long, long way off yet, though.

[Jay]

The neck on that one is kwila, not rosewood. No truss rod.

Wow! Cool! Never played a kwila necked guitar in my life.

I am in the middle of making one...meant to be very similar to maple tone wise I think

You played my all Kwila Tele something caster at the Tron fest. The one with my home brew pickups....

The neck is humongous (as you mentioned) and no truss rod used as it ain't required.

I tried kwila in a ..., but as a no-truss rod, no-finish neck is definitely the winner. .

Yes, I want to do another one but with a much thinner neck this time... but still macho enough to not have to use a truss rod...

[ash]

A small instagram picture of my tele, my first guitar, the first guitar I built:



It's a funny shape becasue it was based on a plan in popular mechanics, which was an approximation of a tele at best. kauri body, NZ red beech top, tawa neck, rosewood fretboard. A mystery Japanese bridge pickup and a '70s Fender neck pickup rewound by me to not be so shit. I made the bridge from brass sheet and rod, nickel plated. May 1992, it was started and initially finished, but looked quite different then. Finished properly in August '92.

[ash]

Adrian!

Good Representation on this thread.

Yes, I like it

[Jay]

A small instagram picture of my tele, my first guitar, the first guitar I built:



kauri body, NZ red beech top, tawa neck, rosewood fretboard.
I made the bridge from brass sheet and rod, nickel plated.

Nice top, I would not have thought red beech had some flame in it. You got me thinking on making your own bridge...

[AiRdAd]

A small instagram picture of my tele, my first guitar, the first guitar I built:



It's a funny shape becasue it was based on a plan in popular mechanics, which was an approximation of a tele at best. kauri body, NZ red beech top, tawa neck, rosewood fretboard. A mystery Japanese bridge pickup and a '70s Fender neck pickup rewound by me to not be so shit. I made the bridge from brass sheet and rod, nickel plated. May 1992, it was started and initially finished, but looked quite different then. Finished properly in August '92.

The top looks lovely - do you still have that guitar Adrian?

[AiRdAd]

Agreed.
Rosewood necked guitars are one of my favourite things, yet I've never owned one. They lend a wonderful attack characteristic to the note and just look and feel amazing.

The neck on that one is kwila, not rosewood. No truss rod.

Adrian!

Good Representation on this thread.

Hasn't the Capt got a nice ASH Customworks tele? It's got a cool black top - can't remember the name of the wood used. Can you please post a pic of if you've got one Capt

[bender]

Adrian!

Good Representation on this thread.

Yes, I like it

The two Paulownia ones and that thinline of Kev77's are real standouts among all the teles I've played.

Oh yeah, and the Manorcaster was always a little gem too.

[Conway]

Oh yeah, and the Manorcaster was always a little gem too.

And man, did it smell really really nice! Cedar.

[ash]

The top looks lovely - do you still have that guitar Adrian?

Yes, it's the one and only keeper.

[slash-ed]

Don't have time to comb through the thread for mentions, but - who's using MJT derived partscasters? Did you go for just the body, or + hardware and +neck?

Scheming about a thinline Tele and since Radians aren't really as much of an option any more, they seem like a good one - happy to be recommended other builders as well.

[Molly]

I know Danny has sourced a number of MJT bodies. Might even have one that'd fit the bill.