6 string Andy Summers telecaster guitar project

[ezbass]

This is a thing of beauty, the nitro crazing adds a really nice organic look to it, properly NOS/Closet Classic

[kevin_lindsay]

I've only got my iPhone at present to take video clips. I'll get some playing clips posted later, but for now:

http://youtu.be/wdW2ADGddD8

Edited January 15, 2013 by kevin_lindsay

[kevin_lindsay]

Here's the Tele with my gorgeous sounding Flynn Amps 5E3 Tweed Deluxe. Great combination

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[kevin_lindsay]

Here's the crazing on the rear of the headstock. This was achieved by leaving the guitar in its case in my car during the sub-zero freezing temperature then bringing it in to a toasty warm apartment. Looks cool though!

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Edited January 20, 2013 by kevin_lindsay

[DarkHeart]

i normally hate Tele`s but this,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[Andyjr1515]

This is a very beautiful and very skilled build. Lovely, lovely job

Andy

[kevin_lindsay]

Thanks guys! My brother used it on a couple of gigs last weekend, and in the studio on Wednesday. He has now commissioned me to make another one. Looks like I'm going to be busy again for the next few months.

[kevin_lindsay]

The Tele is going off to a new home today! My brother has convinced me to let him have it - he's going to fund the building of another one so I can have one for myself still.

[ezbass]

Not sure I'd've let the first one go, your sibling must be very persuasive.

[sblueplanet]

Amazing!
I bet Summers himself would happily play this one.
He actually used one of his CS replicas during the Police reunion tour as the original is now too fragile and valuable.

I have a lefty Fender jazz body needing a refin if you do commissions?

[GarethFlatlands]

Just rediscovered this thread as I'm doing up an old homemade tele I've had lying round for years. Sadly, most of it is way beyond me but it's an inspiring read anyway. If you can do all this, I can manage the small number of jobs that my guitar needs doing!

[ezbass]

Nice to see this thread resurrected. I love the look of this style of Tele but I'm also a fan of the Thinline look too; oh my look at what Fender have done, way too rich for my blood (as I only play 6 string at home) at £1400, but wow!

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http://www.fender.com/series/american-deluxe/american-deluxe-telecaster-thinline-maple-fingerboard-3-color-sunburst/

[kevin_lindsay]

Thanks for the new comments guys. The Olympic White Jazz Bass which I recently completed turned out really well.

http://basschat.co.uk/topic/217598-olympic-white-6662-style-jazz-bass-build/

A guitarist friend of mine is a huge Rush fan, so I'm looking at doing a replica Arctic White Gibson 335 like Alex Lifeson's own guitar. That'll be a big job.

Edited December 15, 2013 by kevin_lindsay

[ezbass]

[quote name='kevin_lindsay' timestamp='1387122490' post='2308384']

A guitarist friend of mine is a huge Rush fan, so I'm looking at doing a replica Arctic White Gibson 335 like Alex Lifeson's own guitar. That'll be a big job.
[/quote]Oh my! There'll be more drooling at Ez Towers then.

That Jazz is lovely BTW.

[kevin_lindsay]

Yippee! The Andy Summers Tele is coming back home.

My brother loves it, but he never paid for it! Hahaha. Taking advantage of his big brother's generosity. So, I'm getting it back, and my brother can simply borrow it if he needs to in the future.

I'm looking at a new amp - I like this by Stevie Flynn:

http://youtu.be/mPSor5mLnTA

[deksawyer]

Kevin, if you do ever want to sell this, the guitarist in my band (www.thepolis.co.uk) would be very interested in getting hold of it.

If you don't want to sell it, maybe you can give him a wee shot sometime.....

cheers

D.

[kevin_lindsay]

Hi mate, I might pop through to your gig on 6th September at the Citrus Club in Edinburgh (bringing the tele with me)

[kevin_lindsay]

Well, I've now got the guitar back. I'd forgotten just how well it had turned out - it plays and sounds great. The brass bridge plate and saddles give the guitar a really smooth tone. There's no top end "harshness".

the finish has crazed just as I had hoped it would. There's a few knocks on the body now which gives the guitar a nicely "played-in" look. I had rolled the fingerboard edges befoe applying the lacquer.

Here's some pics showing the lacquer crazing. This hasn't been achieved with freezing or cutting. Rather, the way the lacquer is applied can influence this.

On the rear of the headstock the lacquer is nicely lined:

Before
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and now:
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[kevin_lindsay]

On the body, when the guitar was completed it looked pristine.

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now, the face of the guitar is totally crazed:

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[kevin_lindsay]

More pics

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[ezbass]

Love this guitar. That's checkering up nicely and without any processing too - cool.

[kevin_lindsay]

Thanks mate.

another thing I did after having the instrument assembled was to slightly amend the bridge saddles. I had previously mentioned that I had sanded the sharp edges to make them smoother to the touch,

when the saddles arrived, the centre holes looked like this:

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I gently filed and sanded the "points" to give a smoother feel when resting your hand on the bridge. It also meant the holes were amended to look more like the original ones on Andy's Telecaster.

Here's the "after" picture:

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[kevin_lindsay]

Some arty pics of the Tele:

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