Tele mutt

[straycat]

Had this old tele laying around made by a local luthier and bluegrass picker Hank Clubb(Kentuckian guitars).The neck had worn down so much from playing it couldn't be re-fretted any more so I chopped the end off a 21 fret generic strat neck widened the neck pocket just a hair and put it together.
Installed an rs upgrade kit (vintage) some Grover tuners and have a really sweet playing tele now.Bridge pickup is a 60's Fender,neck pick up is 70's Fender.Lots of quack and bite.
Need to age the neck a little like rolling the fingerboard edges and removing some finish here and there so here it is an 11 lb monster.
Hank passed away a couple of years ago and I always held on to this tele for sentimental reasons, so now I can play it again and remember the good times.
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[straycat]

Well it has a new more traditional tele look now.
Nice Mighty Mite birdseye neck,Klusen vintage tuners and a 60's Strat pickup in the neck.
Sounds pretty damn good too.Just couldn't hack the std neck pickup at all.
Going to try a Gretsch lap steel pickup in the neck soon to see what that sounds like.
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[daisp]

Nice!

[pebber]

cool and much better, don't like a strat neck on a tele body.

I have Tim's korina coming my way.

[hippietim]

cool! i have another tele project in the works.

[straycat]

I am on the lookout for an ash tele body this body is just too heavy IMO.
Its sounds great but I think ash would be much better tone wise.