I built this...

[clef051]

I built a tele I wanted, although its a esquire right now. mjt body, all parts neck, mostly fender hardware. manlius broadcaster pickup. emerson esquire prewired controls. Routed for a jazz master neck pickup I also have another pickguard for when I do that.

Super light I'd be surprised if is 7 pounds, the body is 3lbs 8oz. I still need to get it intonated, but late now and I need to get up early.

Should be quite a fun guitar.

[Hiwatt Bob]

Nice work!

[clef051]

Found a problem with using the original tele style saddles. Even with shimming. I ordered the callaham saddles that are for a bigsby, hopefully that should fix it.

[MechaBulletBill]

Huh. Did you try and file a groove into the brass saddles? It doesn't take much for the strings to cut their own groove but sometimes they need help.

[NICQ]

Pretty cool build !

Like the blue and the amp knobs

how does it sound? Tele twang + behind the bridge overtones must be quite interesting

[Embenny]

I was about to say, "put a JM pickup in the neck!" but I see that's already the plan.

Good luck sorting out the bridge issue. That's gonna be one incredible axe when it's done.

[MKR]

looks awesome. I would also recommed filing a groove in that saddle. I did that when i had a brass smooth saddle for my tele with bigsby. i found i was getting string slippage on a couple strings. filing the groove fixed that.

Eventually i ended up getting some cheap threaded saddles (similar to old school jag JM saddles). they did the trick.

[dezb1]

Looks cool... just get longer grub screws and they'll stop the strings going off the edge.