Something rare... Denim & Pearl Tele

[FrankenWashie]

The brass idea is solid.

Vintage Copper?

[Sonic Mountain]

I wonder if it'd be worth seeing whats under the chrome plate on the stuff in the kits

[Simon Barden]

Chrome plating's hard to remove but it will probably be alloy on some bits, brass or steel on others. You could test with a magnet for the steel items.

Gold plating comes off with a single application of metal polish and a good rub to reveal the chrome underneath. I've done that on the original parts on a couple of guitars where I couldn't get a nickel or chrome replacement part but was swapping out from gold hardware to nickel.

[Marcel]

Nowhere near perfect, but it does look the part...

Rear binding done and dried. Front denim glued and drying...

[Sonic Mountain]

You know what? That actually looks really good. I will admit I'm still disappointed you didn't have a pocket included, but great work regardless.

[Simon Barden]

Yes, it does look very good.

[Marcel]

Thanks guys...

The hardest part is finding the right piece of denim... in this case the legs from a pair of jeans sized for a 10yo child. Adult sized denim has the stitching separated by too much material, and pockets aside I think the stitching is near half of what character denim has....

[Simon Barden]

Of course you could never plug a working-man denim-clad Tele into a high-class Tweed amp - unless it liked a bit of rough.

[wazkelly]

Well that does it then.....Black face or silver face only! Tweed would be way too posh.

[Marcel]

Don't care much for the whole 'posh' stuff.... but there are plenty of those that have, and more of those that have-not...

My gut tells me that this build will sound best through a Tweed amp.... However for as long as it stays in my hands the best it will ever see is a small Vox copy into a 2x12 Celestions cab or an ultra flexible 100W Marshall JVM combo...