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Well, EGC is all paid for. Soooo, I'm think I'm going to start buying the smaller parts for this. Probably work backwards with this, and get the really cheap stuff first

First question- looking into a Stratocaster hardtail bridge for this build. Just curious which one to use. I don't want to break the bank, but I WOULD like something that would work well, and last.

In just to say I like the idea and can't wait to see how it turns out.

Alright, drastic change in direction.

Going to use an Esquire Telecaster body that I got off ebay for cheap over the weekend for this project. It's stupid for me to have another standard scale guitar, so it'll be a Telecaster Esquire Bass VI

DC Kunkle 30.25" conversion neck
Pine Telecaster Esquire body
Black single ply pickguard
Cream Seymour Duncan Super Distortion in the bridge
Traditional Telecaster control plate
Series/Parallel/Split wiring on a traditional 3 way Telecaster switch with black hat
Volume, no tone
Wilkensen Bridge with brass compensated saddles (duh)

Still on the fence about string gauge.

I kind of still want to do that mahogany/transparent blue finish

Well, you might be interested in my Tele VI... ?


Great project you have here! Looking forward to see some pics.

DOUBLE BRIDGE PICKUP HOLY SHIT. THAT RULES!!!

skullservant wrote:DOUBLE BRIDGE PICKUP HOLY SHIT. THAT RULES!!!

I usually hate pre-distressed hardware, but I didn't want a sheen or shine with the Bass VI hardware so I sanded it down with a fine sanding block



Mounted all of the hardware (but didn't wire it up yet) for the control plate. I figured I might as well add a tone circuit to this for the thumps, so I put it on a push/pull so I can take it out of the circuit by pulling up on the knob. I figured pulling up on the knob to engage the tone circuit would be more useful for me so that I don't accidentally introduce it to the output when I don't want it.

3 way switch is for split/series/parallel wiring on the Super Distortion

Ok that's gonna be awesome.

About the neck- going with a DC Kunkle neck, 30.25" scale. Messaged the guy to see if I could have the top dots deleted and just have the side dots, also going to get a level and crown while I'm at it because why not

Just bought the tuners, string trees, and ferrules. Went with Grovers for the tuners. Impressed with the Grovers on my EGC, a step up from the Gotohs I've used previously

Asked if I could also get a reverse headstock because why not

If you have some mulneric acid laying around, that will distress that hardware nicely.

Also been doing some reading, and found a few good resources...

http://www.reranch.com/101a.htm

http://www.reranch.com/basics.htm

oh cool, I'll have to look into those resources, thanks bud

Good to see it's progressing well, great idea to have the tone control on a push/pull to remove it from the circuit

Hope you can get the neck as you want it, looking forward to the next update!