Making a chambered Telecaster 

Hey that's pretty respectable work for a couple of jack plates...

Where do you guys find the time to be great musicians, songwriters and carpenters??? As advanced as you guys are on your musical instruments & vocals it seems like to have come that far it would've consumed every waking hour...and now I see you're also great with woodwork and electronics...??? I'm impressed!

I love the wood choice. Non-traditional wood always makes for a good looking guitar!

You pilot holes do awesome work! Sounds amazing, looks amazing. Great job Jack Plates!!

Great job!

Beautiful guitar. I’ve always liked the idea of a chambered Tele myself and that one turned out great.

"Look at me I'm Sandra De." With that one comment, I think you made my wife interested in guitars. Beautiful!

This is the most beautiful Telecaster I ever saw !

Way cool. Love the finish. It really brought out the grain in the wood. All of the chrome gives an industrial look to it, like it was a machine, which isn’t too far from the intended use.

Beautiful job! I have a stetsbar tremolo on a Firebird (kinda industrial looking but it STAYS IN TUNE) My only suggestion for future tele builds would be to countersink the control plate. It looks great when the plate is flush with the body.

Very nice! And...my lack of skills and equipment is exactly why I buy all my guitars.

There's just something about spalted wood, it just looks amazing to me - Love It!!! Great Job!!

Beautiful Spalted Maple and wow, what a nice Fat sound! Great craftsmanship, insane Tele!

That is a piece of art. Beautiful beyond words. Thanks for the video guys. True craftsmanship. I need to make one.

The finish on the wood was perfect! Nice job.

Absolute killer tele guys👍 I wish I’d seen the stetsbar top mount trem system before I’d cavity cut mine to fit a supervee maverick tele trem system... doh!!!!! Even with the humbuckers your tele has a great stinging wirey tone. Brilliant🎸

Two dudes vibin’ over building a guitar together. What could be more bromantic than that?

nice one. chambering makes sense when using the heavier duty hardware

Spalted wood is special. Thanks for using it in your build. I'll subscribe now in light of your good taste. Your humor is good as well...thanks!

Dutch Elm Disease by the Beetles (Lenin/Mc Artney) I once had a burl Or should I say It eluded me But then, down came a tree By more than a breeze Dutch Elm Disease I went to the workshop to ponder and had an idea Ran out in the yard to find beetles devouring that tree Oh wow wow woweee I took it inside made it some tea (that confused Betty Lee) I chopped up the wood sawed, planed and squeezed Isn't it good Dutch Elm Disease Betty Lee knitted mittens while I carefully crafted a top To adorn that ol' Tele with chambers and 'buckers and pots That turned out quite nice Betty said, between fries Who'd a thunk, jeeze Dutch Elm Disease

Oh my, what a beautiful Chambered Telecaster creation!

WOW GUYS!! Totally Awesome! You inspire me! Now if I could just get the garage cleaned out!

Wonderful skills. I really appreciate the CNC precision on shaping the cavities and other parts.

Very, Very interestig work. What a fine and fantastic chambered guitar you've made. And finally i found you have installed the really good tremolo "Stets Bar Pro",very, very effective (expensive, but is the best). Congratulations.

The woods of this guitar are amazing ! I thinks the metal parts that are mostly chromed could have been brass to match the wood and look extraordinary .

I like chambering on a tele. I prefer the thinline style though. If your going to go through the trouble of chambering , why not tune it for an F- hole in the upper bout.

that final lick was super cool

Awesome video, love how peaceful you made it. great looking guitar!

Man, sweet as can be. Thanks for taking the time to record this so we can see what the set up was! Awesome!

To hell with the naysayers, boys. That is some killer work!

Body : telecaster Neck : strocaster Pickup : les paul.. Nice combine

This is one of the most beautiful guitars I've ever seen. I personally love wooden like guitars and instruments in general, as wood is an amazing material and has to show up in the final art. Congratulations on the very good job!

Wow! Tele with Whammy! Very Nice!

Spalted maple has an interesting look to it. Everything looks really good. Thanks for sharing, we can see how much work is actually involved in building a guitar. 🤟

Awesome looking & sounding Axe , gentleman ! Love it !

bel servizio, sull'artigianato, complimenti , e bel suono della chitarra è sempre una emozione, veder nascere uno strumento musicale. grazie , ciao. siete dei veri artisti.

Awesome work guys 🫡

BEAUTIFUL looking guitar! And it sounds fantastic, too.

late to the party, but she is a beauty! Would love to see a bass video sometime!

Not bad for a couple of dirty rotten jack plates. It definitely sounded funnier in my mind. Great video and an awesome guitar! You just found a new subscriber.

A fantastic guitar with a awesome sound... perfect... you are the guy!

Great video and a terrific instrument. Thanks guys

that thing sounds killer. i need me a hum bucking tele asap

Your talents are never ending

Great job there, ya pair o'control knobs!! :)

Amazing guys!!!!! The most beautiful tele I've seen... Although I prefer tele headstock

Really like this, I might want even more off, I hurt my back when I was 30 & My 74 Les Paul & 73 Strats were too damn heavy, killed my back, I like your approach. I've got 2 extra Strat bodies I'd like to run through a planer & then chamber & cap after like this. Thanks for the inspiration, sounds great too, I loved a Tele deluxe I had with humbuckers.

This is a gorgeous and well made guitar! That said, the only change I would suggest would be to do two individual channels through the main body instead of the individual chambers, and then you can do F-holes (another great Jersey insult) and make it a semi-hollow body Tele. Just my two cents though...

Damn! Great job guys. I think I'd have gone with a hard tail though.

what a couple of 'jack plates'

That headstock is just incredibly beautiful

Great job you guys! Thanks, Pam

That is one of the FINEST examples of the Spalted Maple that I have ever seen . I DO NOT have a robot drill , mind ye .

damn I got excited watching you create that magnificent instrument,i wanted to chord it bad,then turn it all the way up,nice sound

WOAHHH!!!! farrrkk wot a kick arse sound. Fantastic.

It's most certainly a unique guitar, not many tele are chambered even less have spalted wood and even less have that type of tremolo system.

Looks and sounds great! I love a humbucker in a tele!

Sorry for the CNC comment, Sometimes that little "Ed Roman" guy comes out in me.... End of the day... Killer guitar!!! Nice job.

Leo would laugh at this..... his original Broadcaster was a solid pine block with two alnico style pickups with a low output capacitor on the neck pickup and the all important strung through body.

Wow, that is a stunning looking Tele! Love the trem

Wow that turned out nice! Good job!

Uma obra prima. quem é apaixonado por guitarra sabe que vocês fizeram um belo e lindo trabalho. I'm from Brazil. I like this guitar very much. Congratulations.

Beautiful work!

Fantastic, great video and guitar

Good work, but if I were you: - I would apply shielding before installing the pickups - I would shield the pickup cavities as well and run a wire to connect all shielding layers to each other and to jack ground - I would connect the bridge to shielding as well - I would embed the jack plate and and control plate into the body. It would be much more easier for you since you have a cnc. - I wouldn't use aluminum since it is very soft and can easily be damaged, especially for such ambidextrous locations. I would use chrome plated parts sold on the market. But again, very good work and thanks for sharing with us. And nice wood selection by the way.

Spectacular! Really impressive how the guitar looks and sounds!

Nice work guys and a good sounding guitar at the end too.

Beautiful job!

You screwing and tapping Jack plates. Nice job!

Dutch elm disease is a fungal infection spread by elm bark beetles. Nice guitar!

Why didn't you machine all the holes for the control and jack plates in the CNC ? Just curious

Zow! Love the spalted look. It seems to play well, too. One idea you might like: start your countersink holes with the countersink. Then pilot and size-drill them. You’ll get much better finish on the edges of the countersink (plus no chatter-cuts). I think the tear-out on the spalted Birch was inevitable. With grain going every which way and the weakened wood fibers from the salting, it seems it would be hard not to have some of it. Nice job, boys!

Beautiful build! You guys could likely do well to add a band saw and a drill press to your tool set ;-)

Hey Dudes !!"! A realy wonderful job !!! Love this Guitar very well ! greetings from Berlin Germany !!!

Beautiful spalting!

Nice from your neighbor to the north east. Hey ya.

Nice sounding guitfiddle. Killer content.

Very nice The making Guitar ... tremendous

Absolutely beautiful guitar amazing work 👍

I'm impressed with the build, to a point. Great work with the CNC, most of us mere mortals will have to do it with a hand router. First question, though; with a beautiful figured top, why not rear rout and lose the control plate from the top? I mean, you HAVE a CNC machine, you COULD cut really clean pot and switch holes... Not at all sure why you had to mill your own plates, either. And why use aluminum? Aluminum scratches much easier than brass or chromed plates, and making it from scrap like that was SO thick! And, by the way, you mounted the neck pickup backwards. The screw adjustable poles should be closest to the neck.

So calming

Beautiful sound!

Surprised that you used maple for the back wood? That spalted Elm is really pretty!

sounds great and looks great!

Great build, but would've liked to have seen the control plate counter sunk.

Beautiful exotic wood.

Amazing Job!!!! Great!!

Ever had a lefty that says he wants to try starting guitar playing right but isn’t sure that’ll work or someone who wants to pass their guitar to someone of the opposite handage? I think a symmetrical guitar that can be set up either way is the answer.

Fantastic ,send it here to scotland

Beautifull project guy's!!!

I have a feeling that the two of you will go on to do great things... So I subscribed. Thanks for the video.

CNC...must be really nice.

7:20, I was thinking exactly that. There is a process whereby you can plate nickel or chrome without a tank. It uses an electrode that is made of soft material and is immersed in an electrolyte. Look for it on RU-vid. It was one of the restoration videos. It does a beautiful job.

Reminds me of the IYV 300 semi hollow tele....

Wow! Absolutely gorgeous!

7:35 is there a reason you're spraying clear sealer onto everything in your shop? Or is there nothing in the path that will matter at that point?

Nice job and a beautiful guitar the only thing I would do different would be inset the jack plate otherwise shes perfect.

Wow - really nice project!

dang.... that's a thicccccc jackplate

Absolutely beautiful men and it sounds great. Great job. Thanks