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CSVeteran
Joined: Sat Jul 05, 2014 3:00 pm Posts: 126 Location: SoCal
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Re: Custom Build Tele
I like Mighty Mite pickguards. I also make laminated wood pickguards
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Tomas83
Joined: Tue Aug 11, 2015 5:55 pm Posts: 133 Location: NE corner of the 4 corners
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Re: Custom Build Tele
Beautiful work as always CS
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CSVeteran
Joined: Sat Jul 05, 2014 3:00 pm Posts: 126 Location: SoCal
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Re: Custom Build Tele
More pics [url=http://s1379.photobucket.com/user/csveteran/media/GoldStrat%20014_zps5b93hjvn.jpg.html [/url] [url=http://s1379.photobucket.com/user/csveteran/media/StratPickups%20004_zpsq5nfwcpk.jpg.html [/url]
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CSVeteran
Joined: Sat Jul 05, 2014 3:00 pm Posts: 126 Location: SoCal
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Re: Custom Build Tele
Tele in Olympic white nitrocellulose lacquer. [url=http://s1379.photobucket.com/user/csveteran/media/OlyWhiteTele%20011_zpszusyuogz.jpg.html [/url]
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Tomas83
Joined: Tue Aug 11, 2015 5:55 pm Posts: 133 Location: NE corner of the 4 corners
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Re: Custom Build Tele
That's a great color CS..
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Fri Dec 11, 2015 2:52 pm |
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CSVeteran
Joined: Sat Jul 05, 2014 3:00 pm Posts: 126 Location: SoCal
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Re: Custom Build Tele
Thanks Tomas!
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Sat Dec 12, 2015 11:11 am |
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CSVeteran
Joined: Sat Jul 05, 2014 3:00 pm Posts: 126 Location: SoCal
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Re: Custom Build Tele
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CSVeteran
Joined: Sat Jul 05, 2014 3:00 pm Posts: 126 Location: SoCal
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Re: Custom Build Tele
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Sun Feb 28, 2016 11:32 am |
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CSVeteran
Joined: Sat Jul 05, 2014 3:00 pm Posts: 126 Location: SoCal
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Re: Custom Build Tele
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Sun Feb 28, 2016 11:34 am |
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Tomas83
Joined: Tue Aug 11, 2015 5:55 pm Posts: 133 Location: NE corner of the 4 corners
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Re: Custom Build Tele
That P90 is georgeous I can imagine many people buying that configuration and color. Great work CS!
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Sun Feb 28, 2016 8:39 pm |
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Tomas83
Joined: Tue Aug 11, 2015 5:55 pm Posts: 133 Location: NE corner of the 4 corners
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Re: Custom Build Tele
CSVeteran wrote: Lightly reliced California Blue Real nice CS. Your work shows to be very consistent which is the best imo.
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Sun Feb 28, 2016 8:43 pm |
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Tomas83
Joined: Tue Aug 11, 2015 5:55 pm Posts: 133 Location: NE corner of the 4 corners
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Re: Custom Build Tele
Real nice finish on that Strat and I love that rosewood board too.
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Sun Feb 28, 2016 8:44 pm |
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CSVeteran
Joined: Sat Jul 05, 2014 3:00 pm Posts: 126 Location: SoCal
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Re: Custom Build Tele
Tomas83 wrote: That P90 is georgeous I can imagine many people buying that configuration and color. Great work CS!
Thanks Tomas - the P90 is my favorite neck pickup for tele style guitars. The AlNiCo 5 provides for a fat warm tone with some treble articulation.
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Wed Mar 02, 2016 8:59 am |
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CSVeteran
Joined: Sat Jul 05, 2014 3:00 pm Posts: 126 Location: SoCal
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Re: Custom Build Tele
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CSVeteran
Joined: Sat Jul 05, 2014 3:00 pm Posts: 126 Location: SoCal
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Re: Custom Build Tele
Parker Hornet with mahogany body and carved maple top refinished in nitrocellulose lacquer. The bridge humbucker was rewound to vintage specs (original neck pickup sounds great). Pushpull pots have been replaced.
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Wed Mar 02, 2016 9:16 am |
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CSVeteran
Joined: Sat Jul 05, 2014 3:00 pm Posts: 126 Location: SoCal
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Re: Custom Build Tele
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Wed Mar 02, 2016 9:18 am |
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CSVeteran
Joined: Sat Jul 05, 2014 3:00 pm Posts: 126 Location: SoCal
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Re: Custom Build Tele
Back of body and neck is mahogany.
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Wed Mar 02, 2016 9:24 am |
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Tomas83
Joined: Tue Aug 11, 2015 5:55 pm Posts: 133 Location: NE corner of the 4 corners
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Re: Custom Build Tele
CSVeteran wrote: Tomas83 wrote: That P90 is georgeous I can imagine many people buying that configuration and color. Great work CS!
Thanks Tomas - the P90 is my favorite neck pickup for tele style guitars. The AlNiCo 5 provides for a fat warm tone with some treble articulation. The P90's are my favorite pickups, great clean tones and great OD tones as well.
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Wed Mar 02, 2016 11:05 am |
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Tomas83
Joined: Tue Aug 11, 2015 5:55 pm Posts: 133 Location: NE corner of the 4 corners
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Re: Custom Build Tele
CSVeteran wrote: Back of body and neck is mahogany. I had a Parker P42 with a maple neck bolt on mahogany body, ebony fretboard. It was a great guitar, I couldn't really bond with the supposedly AlNiCo 2 humbuckers on it so eventually I sold it. The necks on Parkers are pretty amazing. I would love that Hornet without the maple cap Too bad I didn't know you back then, I would have asked you to rewind the pickups in mine too. That Goldtop looks amazing CS!
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Wed Mar 02, 2016 11:08 am |
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CSVeteran
Joined: Sat Jul 05, 2014 3:00 pm Posts: 126 Location: SoCal
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Re: Custom Build Tele
Tomas - this Parker Hornet also has an ebony fretboard and the humbuckers are AlNiCo 5s. The neck pickup was excellent in the 7.9k range, but the bridge was overwound (13.4k) and too midrangy. I agree with you about the AlNiCo IIs, once you get used to single coils, they tend to be uneventful and lacking in the treble end.
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Wed Mar 02, 2016 10:47 pm |
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Tomas83
Joined: Tue Aug 11, 2015 5:55 pm Posts: 133 Location: NE corner of the 4 corners
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Re: Custom Build Tele
CSVeteran wrote: Tomas - this Parker Hornet also has an ebony fretboard and the humbuckers are AlNiCo 5s. The neck pickup was excellent in the 7.9k range, but the bridge was overwound (13.4k) and too midrangy. I agree with you about the AlNiCo IIs, once you get used to single coils, they tend to be uneventful and lacking in the treble end. Yes that's my favorite mahogany neck and ebony fretboard. I still like AlNiCo II magnets I think it was just those Parker pickups weren't really that good. Fat single coils sound the best to my ear like P90's jumbo MFD's etc. you are really doing a great job CS, you should work for G&L IMO.
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Thu Mar 03, 2016 2:56 pm |
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CSVeteran
Joined: Sat Jul 05, 2014 3:00 pm Posts: 126 Location: SoCal
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Re: Custom Build Tele
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CSVeteran
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Tomas83
Joined: Tue Aug 11, 2015 5:55 pm Posts: 133 Location: NE corner of the 4 corners
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Re: Custom Build Tele
Beautiful work as always CS! That looks very good to me anyway
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Fri May 27, 2016 7:58 pm |
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john o
Joined: Sun Apr 20, 2014 3:52 am Posts: 943 Location: Delaware
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Re: Custom Build Tele
Really cool SG! nice work! how many guitars do you produce per year?
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Fri May 27, 2016 9:30 pm |
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CSVeteran
Joined: Sat Jul 05, 2014 3:00 pm Posts: 126 Location: SoCal
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Re: Custom Build Tele
drjho7 wrote: Really cool SG! nice work! how many guitars do you produce per year? It varies from year to year. My focus is mostly flamenco guitars, but the markets since 2008 have dropped out for boutique guitars and have been replaced by low cost imports.
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Sat May 28, 2016 8:37 am |
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CSVeteran
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Re: Custom Build Tele
Thanks Tomas and have good one.
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Sat May 28, 2016 8:40 am |
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CSVeteran
Joined: Sat Jul 05, 2014 3:00 pm Posts: 126 Location: SoCal
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Re: Custom Build Tele
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Sat May 28, 2016 11:55 am |
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Tomas83
Joined: Tue Aug 11, 2015 5:55 pm Posts: 133 Location: NE corner of the 4 corners
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Re: Custom Build Tele
CSVeteran wrote: drjho7 wrote: Really cool SG! nice work! how many guitars do you produce per year? It varies from year to year. My focus is mostly flamenco guitars, but the markets since 2008 have dropped out for boutique guitars and have been replaced by low cost imports. You make flamenco guitars? That's awesome! I was starting oot with a classical guitars and always admired flamenco and of course wanted a good guitar for that. What are your flamenco ones looking like?
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Sun May 29, 2016 9:47 am |
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CSVeteran
Joined: Sat Jul 05, 2014 3:00 pm Posts: 126 Location: SoCal
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Re: Custom Build Tele
Here is a short music sample featuring two one minute segments.
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Sun May 29, 2016 4:16 pm |
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CSVeteran
Joined: Sat Jul 05, 2014 3:00 pm Posts: 126 Location: SoCal
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Re: Custom Build Tele
Tomas83 wrote: You make flamenco guitars? That's awesome! I was starting oot with a classical guitars and always admired flamenco and of course wanted a good guitar for that. What are your flamenco ones looking like?
When I get a chance I will post some pictures.
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Sun May 29, 2016 4:34 pm |
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Tomas83
Joined: Tue Aug 11, 2015 5:55 pm Posts: 133 Location: NE corner of the 4 corners
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Re: Custom Build Tele
CSVeteran wrote: Tomas83 wrote: You make flamenco guitars? That's awesome! I was starting oot with a classical guitars and always admired flamenco and of course wanted a good guitar for that. What are your flamenco ones looking like?
When I get a chance I will post some pictures. Thanks man looking forward and I'm gonna listen to those samples of that SG
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Sun May 29, 2016 6:11 pm |
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CSVeteran
Joined: Sat Jul 05, 2014 3:00 pm Posts: 126 Location: SoCal
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Re: Custom Build Tele
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Wed Jun 01, 2016 10:35 am |
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CSVeteran
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Re: Custom Build Tele
Music sample using the above flamenco guitar on lead with my G&L Tribute Legacy on rhythm track.
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Wed Jun 01, 2016 10:50 am |
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Tomas83
Joined: Tue Aug 11, 2015 5:55 pm Posts: 133 Location: NE corner of the 4 corners
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Re: Custom Build Tele
Wow CS. Now I tend to think that you are fooling us here Erez Perelman hiding under some CS guitars name . Great job the "Blanca" sounds and looks great. Now I think I want one
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Wed Jun 01, 2016 12:36 pm |
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CSVeteran
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Re: Custom Build Tele
I don't build large quantities of guitars which is why CS Guitars is not a major brand name and, actually, I prefer it that way, so I can focus on what I enjoy building. Also, there is very little demand right now for high end classical and flamenco guitars, since most people don't have the budgets for them.
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Thu Jun 02, 2016 9:37 am |
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CSVeteran
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CSVeteran
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Thu May 25, 2017 9:19 am |
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CSVeteran
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Re: Custom Build Tele
The music sample has a thick sound likely because it was recorded through an Amek Mozart module through a Art Pro VLA comp into adat. No effects were added.
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CSVeteran
Joined: Sat Jul 05, 2014 3:00 pm Posts: 126 Location: SoCal
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Re: Custom Build Tele
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Thu May 25, 2017 9:23 am |
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Tomas83
Joined: Tue Aug 11, 2015 5:55 pm Posts: 133 Location: NE corner of the 4 corners
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Re: Custom Build Tele
CS that looks great man. I like the idea too. Usually you don't see many placid lake Tele's out there.
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Thu May 25, 2017 12:11 pm |
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CSVeteran
Joined: Sat Jul 05, 2014 3:00 pm Posts: 126 Location: SoCal
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Re: Custom Build Tele
Hey Tomas, I like your strat avatar Here is one I finished in Turquoise nitrocellulose lacquer, which is in between a Daphne blue and Lake Placid Blue.
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Sun May 28, 2017 1:38 pm |
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Tomas83
Joined: Tue Aug 11, 2015 5:55 pm Posts: 133 Location: NE corner of the 4 corners
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Re: Custom Build Tele
Thanks man. I like it too. I never would have thought I'd be on "the bright side" and be so happy about it
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