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Glen's Gibson scale Tele

Glen's Gibson scale Tele

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I had the pleasure of carrying out the final assembly of a really cool project, a 24.75" scale Tele partscaster for Glen. He had sourced a body from Guitar Build (in the UK) and the 24.75" scale 'conversion' neck from Warmoth in the USA, some of the hardware such as a control plate with the angled switch slot, a nice modern 6 saddle Gotoh bridge, the Fender/Gotoh vintage tuners and a lovely matte black pickguard from friends at Armstrong Music. I was asked to carry out the final assembly, and whilst we had a bit of time on our hands whilst the neck was on order from the US, and Glen carrying out the painting work himself on the body, we chatted about some of the final details like pickups and wiring decisions. Which I'll of course share in this article. 

Building a custom hardtail Strat body

Building a custom hardtail Strat body

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I wanted to feature something a little different to the usual content on the blog, so have decided to document my process of making a guitar body. I'll may follow on with more like this if it's of interest! Within this article I'll be making a hardtail Strat body for a project, there are of course some superb pre-made bodies available these days, including custom specs but when you've got a workshop full of tools they need to be put to use don't they! So let's get busy and I suspect as a result the final product will be more meaningful too. I have a few spec ideas that will make this body a little unique, something that has been bouncing around my head for a while so will be nice to bring it to life.