Some cool pickups. Been hardcore building guitars for the last few years and doing a lot of research. Don't like roasted woods, the resonation feels compressed to me like the cellular structure of the wood afterwards. Old school cloth wires. Best to leave that stuff back in the 50s. 7 strand 26-28 gauge with a thin Teflon coating twisted up tight and cut as short as possible, copper foil shielding, orange drop capacitors tested for negative positive. It makes a difference. Get my necks without a nut, finish or frets. Roll the edges and fret it myself, as well put a bone nut in. Nitrocellulose lacquer finish. Modern brass bridge. That can be intonated properly. Locking tuners, tall and narrow stainless steel frets. Some good pickups. Then take it to the nearest Plek machine. Then you are taking a seriously awesome guitar. Quiet, resonant, fast, functional.
I like the Seymour Duncan stack pickups. In some guitars, they were brighter than I liked, so I bought custom shop Duncan stack pickups with the 5-2 alnico magnet setup. These have alnico 5 magnets under the wound strings and alnico 2 magnets under the plain strings. The difference is subtle, but the treble response loses the ice-pick-in-the-ear quality. Early Teles and Broadcasters used all alnico 2 magnets. I've built five Tele-type guitars using all Warmoth parts - and I love them. They build pretty much what you want and have an extensive option list for woods, routing, and binding. Their necks offer even more options - pick your nut width, back profile, fret size, nut material, neck wood, fretboard wood, inlay, and even the tuner hole size. You could get a Fender decal and stick it on the headstock, but that would be like putting a Chevrolet emblem on a Cadillac.
Ah man the 5-2 vintage stack has to sound insanely good. Yeah buddy Warmoth is such a great option for acquiring a guitar - honestly it’s become my go to for bolt on necks… If only there was a way to do neckthroughs or set neck guitars
Pro tip: If you are putting any screws in the headstock make sure to drill the right sized pilot holes. Maple is very hard and if the hole is too small you will snap the screw off. Also bevel the string holes before tapping in string ferrules if they're not pre-installed. Watch a bunch of build videos will save yourself alot of frustration. Working on my second Warmouth Strat build. Then I'll do a double bound Tele build!
I started to spec out a T-style from Warmoth, but it quickly became more expensive than a custom built G&L ASAT Classic S with alnico pickups, so I went with the G&L and never looked back.
I rejoice with you brother. It’s always exciting to begin a new guitar project. You have spared no expense and nothing but the best. And your telecaster will sound nothing but amazing. Enjoy my friend! Hope maybe for a sound byte Lr two to give us some sound samples best regards
I’m building a parts caster. Basically a Baja with 62’ custom shop Fender pickups. At least throw a 4 way switch in as that gives you a really nice tone with both pickups in series.
I have not built a tele, but I have built a strat with a very similar process to your build! a genuine fender body, but a warmoth neck and Seymour Duncan pickups. used a solderless wiring set, but mine was from obsidianwire. love the build man it looks great, hope to build a tele in the next couple of years
@@antonakis79ohyes ahhh good question. So I was trying to get as close to the 2012 Fender Deluxe era neck shape. Warmoth calls it the “Standard Thin” which I believe is indeed a medium C
Thanks Scott - yeah some folks like the Strat on better some like the Tele. But I think we can all agree the strat one is so much better if you hang your guitar on the wall
Great video, thank you! And beautiful guitar. I was considering going down this route, and also not good at soldering and unaware they had pre wired kits, so glad I saw this. Now I just need to decide what I want to build, tele or strat... whatever it will be, will have a Warmoth 24.75 scale conversion neck... leaning toward tele now! Also was leaning towards rosewood fretboard, but now considering the roasted maple, especially if its a tele.
Nice build. I would like to have seen some attention to fret leveling (always good to check and fix before installing pickups), and any setup, action, intonation setups that almost always need to be done on any new guitar. I hope to build one similar to this someday.
@@ryansnydercg Yes, I am going to do a Tele Deluxe style guitar after all. I ordered a body from Warmoth and already have a bunch of new parts either on order/on hand. Currently debating on what neck profile to choose at them moment. With any luck I'll have something in hand to play by Christmas.
@ryansnydercg man, those guys. an improve on a totally unhuman level. Jake I'm particular is extremely underrated as a player. I was blessed enough to get to attend a guitar clinic at summer camp in Chillicothe Il, Jake, and Brendan, and also Al and Chuck from Moe. It was so incredible. There was only luke a dozen people there so it was suoer intimate. Those guys are incredible people on a personal level and used to give me guest list tix everytime they played eugene, when I lived in Oregon. I also saw you wearing a panic shirt I'm a clip before. you have extremely great taste in music, I must point out.
Dude that sounds like an incredible camp. I’ve been meaning to do a jam band country video. Jake gets pretty country at times. Obviously so does Jerry and Mikey Houser and Jimmy Herring at times
I'd like to build a Super Telecaster. A simple 1 humbucker, 1 volume, Floyd Rose. A NICE Super Telecaster. I would like to find a way to tastefully utilize the Antique Bronze finish of a Floyd Rose Special. The one II end up building even if it's simple would be expensive. it would need to be custom cut. What are the chances they have a Telecaster Body cut for a single humbucker and a Floyd Rose in stock? Then the neck radius/diameter etc, I would need to know which Floyd Rose nut to pick up. Then knowing me, I can't just have a simple plain would grain, it's gotta be some figured exotic lament. And binding.
Thanks Russ - so I checked the old order form and don’t see anything mentioning the frets other than 6150 - so I imagine it’s just the standard nickel/silver one
$1,143.25 - less than the price of an American Performer (or at least it was at the time) and plays about the level of an American Professional Hopefully inflation hasn’t skyrocketed the parts prices though…
Not to be THAT guy, but shouldn't an "ultimate Tele" have body contours and either a Nashville pickup configuration or the 4-way switch mod? I'm not a fan of neither the look or the feel of telecasters though, so who am I to judge
Naw I get it. I debated for a while if I wanted the body contours or not… I knew the Nashville pickup wasn’t something I wanted in this build. Though I thought of having a second pickguard loaded with a Tele bridge strat middle pickup and a mini Humbucker like Brent Mason…
Get rid of the dang background music it is annoying and interferes with the audio of your voice. I gave up watching this video because of it. Way to go!
