Bodies For Nothing And The Necks Were Free

Backdate to 2010 a guy owes me lots and lots of money for guitar setups and repairs, hes a working muso so no money as usual.

Me sends him a bill for much less than what he owes me, no reply :rolleyes:


I send him an email no reply :rolleyes:


This went on for months so i wrote it off as a bad debt.


Answer my front door one day and there's 3 big boxes, i didnt order anything it must be a mistake? no its addressed to me, i look at the sender and the name rings a bell and the packages are from the Netherlands.

Open up first box guitar bodies, all fenders, strats, teles and all sorts of goodness, roadworn bodies, as i said all sorts.
I open a box it has parts and necks some Fender some licenced :cool:

The note inside says this should cover what i owe you, everything is above board they are not stolen or anything, i am sorry for any inconvenience.

I threw into piles what i liked and what i didn't, i ended up selling about 5 bodies and 3 necks and that easily covered my work that was owing.

Now for whats left, that i have had put away for 6 years?

1st up 2010 Telecaster American Special Body, its a second, theres a bit of bleed in the Alder just behind the bridge route, i like the body as is, i may put a mini HB in the neck i dont know.

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More bodies as i dig them out, i think there is 4

Sweet! That's a nice tele - even if it is a second.

Yeah its not too shabby Brendan, just thinking i may go a stacked single (i have a spare Bill Lawrence) and make it an Esquire, like Billy Gibbons guitar. I would try and see about wiring it as a 4 way and tapping the pickup if possible.

Body number 2, i really tossed up wether to keep this or sell, i had a beautiful tobacco sunburst as well, but a mate offered me more than i wanted for it, so it went and i am stuck with this beauty.

Vintage 52 RI American Fender Hot Rod Tele BODY USA
Thinskin Nitro Black 2010.

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I have some plans for this guitar, some very dark ones, the project name is Mr Black

looks good Tony I missed this thread. At least your buddy is making an effort to pay back his debt.
Both the teles you have posted pics of look good

I think he sent me 10 bodies all up and about 5 necks, yep he paid the debt and a little more for the inconvenience.

These looks great looking forward to the transformations

Yeah Stan i have a few crazy ideas...

haha and they are already changing my avatar lol

Body number 3:

2010 Jazzmaster Blacktop perfect all over.
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Suddenly revisiting all those altered Jazzmaster dreams I had when I used to spend all lunchtime using the build designer on the Warmoth site..... Although mine was always going to be Surf Green.

I was always going to build a Bass VI out of a jazzmaster body, now i have plans to do my own Bass VI to spec.

I remember that build designer, it would keep me up until the middle of the night changing configurations on guitars, mainly telecasters, being my 1st love in guitars.

beautiful Jazzmaster Tony !

cheers Wok i even have all the parts for it now, well i think i do, been collecting them for over 6yrs, and only if they were cheap :rolleyes:

be worth putting good hardware and electrics on it Tony !

I have done some work on it, maybe i will get more done now that i remember that i have it :rolleyes:

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nice looking neck Tony

Yeh its a ripper Wok, got it for a loaded korean tele style body i had here, its brand new

Heres another one.

2010 Fender Telecaster American Special

This is going to have an old West German made by Bill Lawrence Ultrasonic Humbucker in the neck, Strat in the middle tele in the bridge, all Bill Lawrence pickups and noisless.

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But there's more

Black Top Telecaster, i have all the parts with this, it came loaded except for the bridge and neck.
Pickups are going in my 335 style 12string.

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Hey Tony, another great looking body ! The top looks white in the photo, why you calling it a black top ?

Its actually silver, Fender bought out a series of guitars called blacktops, flipped control plates amp knobs Humbuckers in teles etc.

Heres how mine would look, but it wont look much like it in the end.

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