Andy40's ATL-1SB (Tele Thinline)

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Originally Posted by dave.king1

That is a lovely bit of timber right there.

Not sure about the short bridge plate if you are planning to us a standard style bridge pickup because the standard bridge has a lot to do with the tonal palate.

I know I'm a fan but given the number of T kits being built it seems the message is getting out ( again )

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Interesting comments as i was wondering how bridge pup would be mounted?

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Originally Posted by dave.king1

That is a lovely bit of timber right there.

Not sure about the short bridge plate if you are planning to us a standard style bridge pickup because the standard bridge has a lot to do with the tonal palate.

I know I'm a fan but given the number of T kits being built it seems the message is getting out ( again )

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DK thats a really good point. I was considering fashoning a tele bridge adapter ring for a humbucker rout....but now you have scared me

I have the same Wilkinson bridge on my HH Tele, it doesn't sound very Tele like with the 1970s Schaller buckers

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Looks great DK.

Hey guys. Just saw this. Binding has separated slightly. Never had this before

Anyone got any other recommendations other than glue and clamphttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...4b87d3b22e.jpg

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I've mounted a Guitar Fetish tele bridge pickup in a humbucker hole with an adaptor ring on a Westone Spectrum and - to my ears, at least! - it sounds perfectly tele-ish, though I'm no tele expert!
The rings I bought were plastic ones for the job, though I used the bridge ring as a template to make a steel one because I thought exactly as DK said, that the pickup mounted in steel rather than wood or anything else was an integral part of the sound.

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Originally Posted by Andy40

Looks great DK.

Hey guys. Just saw this. Binding has separated slightly. Never had this before

Anyone got any other recommendations other than glue and clamphttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...4b87d3b22e.jpg

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Paint thinners should make it plyable again if you approached just that section with caution.

You could try heating it with a hair dryer to soften it up a bit, but the glue and clamp. ;-D

It looks rather like it really doesn't want to be flat and that it's likely to want to spring out again, if not there, then right next to that point if you force it back down.

I might try and cut the binding in half, sand the ends until the two end just touch when pressed into place, then use acetone to stick the binding back and weld the ends together.

Or I might use superglue in the gap and then use lots of string round the body to squash it all flat.

In reality I'd probably just swear a lot and go and do something else instead.

That’s disappointing. I was really impressed with the build quality of my “A” series ST kit.