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GMC Forum _ GEAR & PRODUCTION _ Home Made Telecaster!
Posted by: I WILL rock you Apr 10 2008, 05:55 PM
Hi guys! 
Last week i got my home made Telecaster finished and now i would like to know what you think about it! I`v bought the parts and electronics at www.gitarrdelar.se , its a Swedish guitar-parts shop but is also available in english if you guys want to take a look.
The parts is from different brands and not everything fits 100% with each other so sometimes you may have to modify some. Im very happy with the result and I was very suprised when i couldn`t find a gold and black Telecaster on the Internet so i desided to make my own!
The guitar itself is in very good quality and it doesnt feel like a homebuilt guitar when you play on it. The part that im most satisfied with is definitely the PICKUPS! Oh my god i tell you, the pickups deliver an incredible Telecaster-sound and they even sounds better then most single coil pickups iv ever heard I shit you not! And for what price!? For incredible $88! A guy that wrote an review on the pickups wrote that they sounded better then the pickups on he`s REAL American Telecaster 
The final pricetag on this beauty was about $660 and it was clearly worth it!
Unfortunately i dont have any recording equipment so i cant record this baby 
Let me know what you guys think of her! 
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Posted by: axelsson Apr 10 2008, 06:01 PM
That looks very good indeed! I like the black finish with gold details, very nice! 
Posted by: Kizaze44 Apr 10 2008, 06:02 PM
Nice job, dude! Let me ask you - how long did it take you (in terms of hours) would you say?
-Kizaze
Posted by: skennington Apr 10 2008, 06:07 PM
Very Nice indeed! How does it play and sound?
Posted by: OrganisedConfusion Apr 10 2008, 06:10 PM
Looks awesome. Any chance of recording something with it so we can hear how it sounds also
Posted by: Joe Kataldo Apr 10 2008, 06:28 PM
Wow I want One TOOOO Beautiful BLues Beast 
Posted by: I WILL rock you Apr 10 2008, 06:41 PM
It took me a couple of months to get all the parts but to assemble it, it only took me a couple of hours.. 5 hours i would say.
Posted by: JVM Apr 10 2008, 06:45 PM
Awesome! I love telecasters Though, my dream tele is with a neck humbucker and tele bridge single coil, though maybe a joe barden pickup in the bridge would be good (pickup danny gatton used). You can find them in the tele 72 customs, but they're made in mexico and have a different pickup selector/volume and tone knob setup and different pickguard.
I have a picture I drew of a tele I'm going to build someday.. I'll upload it sometime
Posted by: Nemanja Apr 10 2008, 06:46 PM
nice job man..she is beautiful...
Posted by: I WILL rock you Apr 10 2008, 06:57 PM
Thanks man im very happy with her!
Posted by: erik Apr 10 2008, 07:01 PM
Lol your guitar is ugly! Mine is much prettier!
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk178/89erik/gitaren-1.jpg
Just kidding of course That's one amazyngly smooth guitar, I can't believe you made that yourself 
Posted by: audiopaal Apr 10 2008, 07:01 PM
Oh wow, that's beautiful
I want one too...
Posted by: PolackHax0r Apr 10 2008, 07:06 PM
Very Nice looking guitar! That's sick you built it yourself. You did a great job! I hope it plays as well as it looks.
Posted by: I WILL rock you Apr 10 2008, 07:20 PM
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk178/89erik/gitaren-1.jpg
Just kidding of course
That's one amazyngly smooth guitar, I can't believe you made that yourself Thanks!
Your guitar isnt so bad either ! Posted by: Milenkovic Ivan Apr 10 2008, 07:24 PM
Great looking (and I guess playing too) guitar. COngratulations!
Posted by: erik Apr 10 2008, 08:42 PM
Your guitar isnt so bad either ! thanks
I actually made it as a joke 
used it at a concert too! It had a lot of feedback though didn't sound very good either
Posted by: Nick325 Apr 10 2008, 09:01 PM
nice guitar
Posted by: Muris Apr 10 2008, 09:02 PM
Looks wonderful!!
Posted by: coffeeman Apr 10 2008, 09:14 PM
Beautiful guitar man, congratulations!
Posted by: at lights end Apr 10 2008, 09:14 PM
nice. i don't usually like teles but this one's an exception!
black and gold, very classy. i was thinking of putting that on my build, but opted for black and chrome.
Posted by: Hisham Apr 10 2008, 09:34 PM
wow very nice golden telecaster. congrats man
Posted by: bsamn Apr 10 2008, 09:41 PM
Awesome bro, a very classy instrument you have there 
Posted by: bladzerok Apr 10 2008, 09:44 PM
nice work man!
home made guitar rocks!
chances are good that ill try to make a guitar too (with my father).
Posted by: Fran Apr 10 2008, 09:46 PM
That telecaster looks sweet, great job!
Posted by: JVM Apr 10 2008, 10:27 PM
Here's an outline for how I'm going to build my tele one day:
Check out the barden pickups, they're pretty cool. But then, your tele is more traditional and it's a different thing, I'm sure yours sounds pretty awesome.
Posted by: I WILL rock you Apr 11 2008, 01:46 PM
Check out the barden pickups, they're pretty cool. But then, your tele is more traditional and it's a different thing, I'm sure yours sounds pretty awesome.
Looks like a cool project you have there!:D
Posted by: Patrik Jezierski Apr 11 2008, 09:56 PM
Snyggt som fasiken
Posted by: superize Apr 11 2008, 10:06 PM
Nice looking Guitar
Posted by: Bogdan Radovic Apr 11 2008, 10:51 PM
Looks great man , maybe you can do a detailed review on it
Posted by: Marshmall0wz Apr 12 2008, 03:42 AM
wow......just wow!
Posted by: Trond Vold Apr 12 2008, 04:23 AM
Thats a nice-looking guitar! A job well done
Posted by: Danilo Capezzuto Apr 12 2008, 09:16 AM
Looks great, nice job. I think the sound is great too!
Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Apr 12 2008, 10:55 AM
One suggestions - try to put some logo or a mark on the headstock in order to know that you've done it
Posted by: I WILL rock you Apr 12 2008, 02:00 PM
Thanks for all nice feedback, I really appreciate it!
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