tonymckenziecom | 2 years ago

Fender made the Telecaster, but you, Fender and Warmoth can make a unique guitar that's even better and I show many answers when fitting guitar parts.

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Contents:

0:00 Start
0:28 Intro and Preamble
2:56 Babicz bridges
4:22 Babicz close up views
7:32 Why Babicz?
8:20 Pickup Choices
8:42 Fender Ultra Noiseless Pickups
10:47 David White Pickups
13:00 Closeup of David White Pickups
16:56 4 Way Switches
18:22 TAD Old Style Capacitor
19:18 The Neck Plate
20:39 Fitting the Neck
24:04 The Control Cavity
24:37 Tips for the Body
25:13 Controls Problem
26:35 Wiring Detail
27:18 STOP! STOP!
27:24 Conclusion so far
28:56 Babicz Syndrome
29:19 The Long Road
30:20 Fixing Problems
32:42 Fitting Ultra Noiseless Pickups
36:13 More Pickup Fixes
37:36 Ultra in a Standard Tele
38:25 Babicz Anomalies
42:18 3 Way Switching Change
44:40 Control Knobs
46:44 Fixed Problems :)
47:33 New Fender Case
48:47 General Setup Info
50:38 Summing Up
53:04 Lessons Learned
58:27 Finished Guitar
1:00:33 Question for Viewers
1:04:14 The Playing

Review of the Body: https://youtu.be/klc1jqZzDIs
Review of the Neck: https://youtu.be/MNBKVHySZ_8

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Information David White Pickups:
Playing V1: http://youtu.be/FL4TXg3gcXY
Playing V2: http://youtu.be/SFvTbnOwCHg

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Part TWO: http://youtu.be/zU82uu1LBTE
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Fender: https://www.fender.com

In this video I show you how I created this Telecaster guitar that included Babicz bridge, David White pickups and later Fender Ultra Noiseless pickups as well as show how to fit the Fender Ultra noiseless pickups to a regular telecaster. The birdseye maple neck is pretty spectacular. This is a quilted maple guitar body with incredible figuring. I did not use roasted maple this time on the neck as I have a couple of those already but Warmoth necks are always really good. The question is though is Warmoth worth it for the parts, its true they can be expensive but that is really relative to what you buy.

Throughout the guitar build I encountered many problems, too numerous to list but none either Fender or Warmoth's fault, but I also show you how to fix each problem and I offer great advice if you want to make a guitar, whether Warmoth, or from Fender parts.

Ultimately, after changing parts, carrying out mods to this custom telecaster, and spending time setting up the guitar I am left with one of the best looking and playing Telecaster style guitars that I have ever owned.

It is feasible to go and make your own guitar based on my included information and there is no doubt that you could make one far lower cost than what this top of the range instrument cost - which was approximately £2200.00 complete.

Switchgear came from www.bloodstoneguitarworks.com for the 4 way switching system, but through no fault of theirs I later switched the wiring to 3 way.

Lastly David White Telecaster pickups came from Alan Dingwall Guitars (on Facebook) and at http://www.spiritpickups.com - Alan was a friend of David White and still has a brand new set of Telecaster pickups of David White for sale - worth asking if he has them as these are super rare and extremely good!

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