Custom Mahogany Telecaster

Carved/Assembled February 2007

Finish applied March 2007

One-Piece body

Maple neck

Ebony fretboard

Gotoh Kluson-style tuners

Tusq nut

Wilkinson vintage-style compensated bridge

Seymour Duncan Vintage Stack neck pickup

Seymour Duncan Hot Rails Tele bridge pickup

Black Pearl pickguard

Fender spec. pots & switches

Sanded to 320 grit then hand-rubbed two coats of tung oil. The finish shows up better in the angle shots.

This hunk of wood has an incredible array of grain patterns.

Headstock logo – created with model train decal paper.

Rear of headstock shows some of the danger of assembling the guitar before final clearcoat is complete – I’ll have to redo the decals here.

Also, fresh off a different guitar with different tuners, I drilled the wrong holes for the tuner screws. One broke, the other split wood.

These will have to be repaired before any clear lacquer is sprayed.

The finish looks washed out in the front shot. It is not washed out at all in person.

Slightly out of focus shot of the grain on the other side.