Telecaster Bass build

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Having been gassing for a Telecaster bass for a while after getting the godin and done my research there appeared to be two choices, G&L ASAT or the new Squier VM Telecaster bass. I had mentioned it to mike before and he said he had made a telecaster shaped bass before so we got down to discussing some specs

http://www.fender.com/basses/telecas...lecaster-bass/

http://www.fender.com/basses/precisi...recision-bass/

Basically looking at a hybrid of these really. Will be telecaster guitar shaped.

Specs we have agreed are

4 string 34 inch scale
Idigbo body
Rock maple neck with tele headstock with wendge fingerboard
Gotoh bridge and tuners plus hipshot d tuner
Aero split pup in the p position
Butterscotch blond body with tort plate and metal control plate

Simples

This will be a pay as you go build as I'm a bit skint so it may take a while

Think this will be an awesome bass that looks a bit quirky and unique.

This will be by Mike Walsh of Zoot and Purple Chili fame

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Mike has sent through pictures of the templates he has now made







He scanned in a tele guitar body and then scaled it up to match the bass neck. Then cut templates out of ply.

I think it's looking REALLY good but then I would

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Neck and board done ready to be assembled

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Here's a couple of pic's of the neck being carved.



And a close up.



All that's left to do now is to hand sand and shape the head and heel ends and get the fingerboard on.

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he T-rod on this bass is going to be a "Body end adjust" type. Therefore I need to drill a perfect hole for the end of the rod. Here's how I did it using one of my workshop jigs.

The Jig



The neck in possition



Another shot of the neck in the jig



The 7mm hole being drilled in the end of the neck



The result, a perfect hole in the exact possition needed for the rod.

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Here's a couple of pic's of the Telebass (Idigbo) body blank being bonded.

In the clamps:



Out of the clamps ready for the next stage:

[johnson79]

Very cool. I love tele shaped basses.

[P. Aaron]

Very cool. Hope it comes together for you.

P.S. Is the Gotoh bridge similar to the HMV bridges Fender's putting on their AM ST's these days?

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Originally Posted by P. Aaron

Very cool. Hope it comes together for you.

P.S. Is the Gotoh bridge similar to the HMV bridges Fender's putting on their AM ST's these days?

Yeah very similar. I had one on another bass Mike built me. No string through though but a very solid bridge