Showing posts with label telecaster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label telecaster. Show all posts

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Final project: Esquire conversion (rewiring and all)

So this one was a lot more involved, and I stayed up later then I should to finish. I will restring it later with new strings and try it out later, but now (finally) to sleep!
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Saturday, March 3, 2012

Restoring the Blackguard

Next project:
Restoring the black pickguard to my butterscotch Squier Telecaster and "unstealthing" the neck pickup. The hard part actually was rebalancing the neck and bridge pickup volumes!

But it really sounds glorious again (I had earlier replaced the stock pickups with DiMarzio Area T pickups)
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Friday, March 2, 2012

Stealth Esquire

I decided to replace the black pickguard on my Telecaster with an Esquire pickguard (the Esquire has no pickup in the neck position. I wanted to still be able to use the neck pickup, so I "stealthed" it. I lowered it into the body of the guitar. Then I used the old black pickguard as a template to drill the 3 extra screw holes I needed in the white one. Then just screw it in place and VIOLA, a new look!

Cool,eh? And if I get tired of it, just 10 minutes to set it back the way it was!
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(Clearly, I spend too much time alone!)
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