My First TELEMASTER (ALL DONE)

[Bellyheart]

Where'd you source the body?

[skullservant]

Ebay! There is a rad dude in Oregon that makes them. Just search up Telemaster, he's got one for sale now and he posts them weekly

[Bellyheart]

Oh I've seen those. Look great, but I never see a p90 neck, otherwise I'd be right behind you. i'll look.

[skullservant]

This is the current Telemaster body he's got for sale that goes off tomorrow with traditional Tele routing:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Unfinished-Oreg ... 3f1c155bf7

[Nj0rd]

Shame about the pickup. But MEC's neck only looks kick, so I'm sure yours will too!

[IEatCats]

Damn, the dark finish with the rosewood look amazing. I can't wait to see the finished guitar, man.

[skullservant]

Thanks dudes! Got in a little trouble buying the no-cut bridge, but smoothed it over with the wife and my bank account so we're back in business.

Just going to swap the saddles out of the Warmoth bridge and put them into the Glendale.

I noticed last night when I played at full volume that the p90 was SUPER fucking bright. Brighter than I remember. I'm not going to add a tone control for it not to be used. I just might add a very small cap as a sort of fixed high cut on the pickup to take some of that super sparkle away from it, or I might just need to drop the pickup a little bit as well. But I also know it's the tele bridge and the 10's that are on it. I'll be swapping the 10's to AT LEAST 12's or 13's.

I also think I'll be tuning it in some version of A. I had some sort of nearly open tuning using A last night going and it was great.

[MEC]

You could also add a fixed resistor or a trim pot in place of the tone pot.

[skullservant]

Yeah I'm thinking I most definitely will. Something fairly small, but just enough to get rid of the glassiness

[skullservant]

Now I DID use a 500k pot for volume, I bet that is part of it. Thinking I will swap that for a 250k and add the treble bleed and see where that gets me. I think I might even have a 250k on hand. FUCK YEAH

[skullservant]

Swapped in a 250k pot and it definitely cut down on the ice-pick high end, although now I can't seem to EQ it just the way I'd prefer. Going to do some more experimenting

[skullservant]

What if I put a Piezo under the solid bridge and had a 3 way switch with two volume controls. WHOA

[kosta]

WHOA indeed.

[skullservant]

So, I'm starting to not like the tone of the p90 with my fuzzes... Something feels off about it. I'm not sure what it is. I need to play full volume more. But I'm seriously considering piezo bridge too

[lapsteel]

Umm you probably mentioned it somewheres, but what cap value are you using with the tone? Also at which fret space did you place the pickup, cause it looks a little far back to me....