#Project- TeleJem ! *with pics*

[ET Guitars]

Originally Posted by nickcoumbe

Over 15 years in the tree business and I have never heard of it. To be honest I thought it would have been an Acer of some kind. Looks interesting.

The project looks great.

Its native to the north eastern coast of Australia, making it more of a rainforest hardwood, like the mahoganies. Not an Acer..., not related at all to maple.

[Darin]

The guitar looks very cool. Well done.

[nato101010]

Man, what color are you painting it?

[kwaka100]

Originally Posted by screamndemon69

It recognizes the smileys as pics, hence seeing 8 instead of 3.

Interesting project. Cool idea.


~Bones

ahh ok true, cheers mate! had me abit confused there.. lol

and cheers everyone i've got the whole scale thing preety much figured out now, will be marking out and hopefully drilling the posts on monday, start routing on tuesday.

Originally Posted by nato101010

Man, what color are you painting it?

umm i'm still not sure yet acually, metallic red or more like fenders "kandy red" could look preety cool with the pearl pickguards and gold hardware. I'll most probably paint the headstock to match the guitar aswell, depending how it looks.

Open for suggestions!

One thing i did do tonight however is the 18v mod for my EMG S/S/89 in my squier strat. Lots of reviews say that once doing it they'd never go back, and in my opinion i think it does make it sound better, definately more powrfull. The single pickups definately sound alot better with a niice crunchy distortion.



haha had to show the picture. It's just the short-term mounting as i couldn't fit both batterys under the pickgaurd.. so cable ties it was! On monday i think ill take it in to school and give it a quick little route get them under the pickgaurd

=]

[timerunsout]

Not a big fan of the body but I'm interested to see how you'll put all this together. Will be checking back often

[nato101010]

Kandy Red would look nice. You're not doing the monkey grip You NEED to! Or its just a TeleRG.

[kwaka100]

hahaha yeaah i was going to but 90% of everyone said i should'nt, i was considering it though.

[EvoGiant]

dont ruin that guitar with a monkey grip. ha ha.

[kwaka100]

heyy guys small update

its been slow waiting on parts, and i've only three 70min lessons a week i can work on it, and the last 3 weeks we've been doing thoery !

But anyway i decided not to bother with the floyde rose, not enough time, to complicated, and most of all, i dont ever use them, soo i bought a nice gold top loading hardtail and put that on instead

Other then that all i've really done is put the strings on, and i noticed that its as if the nut is to low on the guitar? when the strings come off the nut they are touching 1st fret regardless of how high they are at the tremolo. My mate thinks the neck might've bent a little as it has been sitting in the cuboard for a few months without strings on it, is this a normal problem? Would i be better of maybe packing a very small peice of wood under the nut, or should i just adjust the truss rod if thats what i could be?

cheers everyone =]

[Vim Fuego]

You can check how straight the neck is by holding a string down at the first and last frets and seeing if there's a small gap between the middle of the string and the frets, if not loosen the truss rod.
Sometimes a nut does need a shim beneath it, usually they are thin brass sheet, and you can buy them or you could make your own.
Great work!
Jim

[Rotti]

It sounds like the nut is not tall enough. use a shim for now, if it works get a new taller nut and file it down to size. If the nut seems unusually tall and you still have the problem then the neck angle would be off do to the neck pocket or truss rod adjustment. Are you using a locking nut? That would be weird with no trem. You can buy a non locking replacement for the locking nut. That would look much better on this guitar.

[kwaka100]

Gday all !

well its been a decent while.. kinda lost track, got realy busy being year 12 and all.. busy yeaaar. But anyway, guitar wise i just thought i'de post some pictures of it now. I have it all together and it plays beautifully! All thats left to do is a nice paintjob (saving money) and its own set of strings :P cant keep stealing them from the strat lol. But here it is:









Soo what's everyones thoughts? =]

[Viper-sfm]

I think that looks really cool Congrats on the build...wish I had the time/equipment to try building a guitar.

[Sickbean]

Looks incredible - I'd buy one, and surely that's the ultimate test.

[Serratus]

Looks nice, but why's the bridge so far back?