My favorite Fender axe! 
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A Master of the Telecaster!
grillebilly
Empty Head
Two local guys. Played bars in the DC area frequently.
It's amazing how Fender and Gibson seemed to get those guitars "right" in the 1950s and '60s.
Gigantic
A big, big love
I've never owned a proper telecaster, although I played one on a recording session back in 1998. Somehow, I will have built there Teles in the past year:
This baritone Thinline, with pink pearloid top binding, a WRHB in the bridge and a Mojo double-foil in the neck a Bigsby and a fine magenta sparkle finish:
this Buck Owens tribute, with a pair of Lindy Fralin P92's, a bigsby, tone chambered ash body double bound with compound binding up top & a jumbo flake finish:
and this one, which should be done in a few weeks:
it features a tone chambered, northern ash body, double binding and a belly cut, with a Lindy Fralin AlNiCo Pole Hum-cancelling soap bar in the neck, a Hum-cancelling Steel Pole soap bar in middle and a TV Jones TV Classic Soap Bar in the bridge with a red, jumbo flake finish. It has a Jazzmaster style vibrato, 5-way switching and will feature a B & G bender, as well.
Not a Telecaster, but certainly Telecaster adjacent is this 1981 Fender Bullet, which I did to test the viability of a multicolored sparkle finish. Most who do glitter finishes, typically spray a silver base coat and spray small flake silver glitter, which is mixed in with clear coat, over it. I take a different approach: I spray the under coat the same color as the top coat, then hand apply flake, burnishing it into the adhesive to make it lay flat, then bury it first in a heavy solids clear, level sand and clear coat with a high-gloss poly. It is very labor intensive, but I think the results are pretty stunning.
This baritone Thinline, with pink pearloid top binding, a WRHB in the bridge and a Mojo double-foil in the neck a Bigsby and a fine magenta sparkle finish:
this Buck Owens tribute, with a pair of Lindy Fralin P92's, a bigsby, tone chambered ash body double bound with compound binding up top & a jumbo flake finish:
and this one, which should be done in a few weeks:
it features a tone chambered, northern ash body, double binding and a belly cut, with a Lindy Fralin AlNiCo Pole Hum-cancelling soap bar in the neck, a Hum-cancelling Steel Pole soap bar in middle and a TV Jones TV Classic Soap Bar in the bridge with a red, jumbo flake finish. It has a Jazzmaster style vibrato, 5-way switching and will feature a B & G bender, as well.
Not a Telecaster, but certainly Telecaster adjacent is this 1981 Fender Bullet, which I did to test the viability of a multicolored sparkle finish. Most who do glitter finishes, typically spray a silver base coat and spray small flake silver glitter, which is mixed in with clear coat, over it. I take a different approach: I spray the under coat the same color as the top coat, then hand apply flake, burnishing it into the adhesive to make it lay flat, then bury it first in a heavy solids clear, level sand and clear coat with a high-gloss poly. It is very labor intensive, but I think the results are pretty stunning.
