TL Problems

[Simon Barden]

And thank you, Gav.

I'm still intrigued by the misplaced scratchplate. I'm wondering if Jaime located the pickup first, but located it in the middle of the pickup cavity by mistake? If the neck pocket isn't too short, then the scratchplate will be sitting over the end of the control plate.

So it's then either a question of moving the pickguard forward and trying to patch up the holes it's left behind, or getting a bespoke pickguard made up that has a bigger cut-out for the control plate and is a bit longer so that it meets the neck.

Jaime, we'd still like to see some photos!

* I've got a Tele with a home-made mahogany body that a mate of mine made years ago, but he did rout out the neck pocket too short so that it's got a gap between the pickguard and the neck like in the photo. The gap was originally (mainly) covered up by the overhang on a 22-fret neck, but that neck was very poorly fretted (I've since refretted it but have yet to quite finish it off), so I replaced it with a cheap used 21-fret neck from eBay. However, that leaves the gap exposed. Because it's a black pickguard, I simply coloured in the gap with a black Sharpie so that it was less noticeable, but come spring here, I'll be re-finishing the body, routing out the neck pocket to its proper depth and re-fitting the old neck.

[Jaime]

And thank you, Gav.

I'm still intrigued by the misplaced scratchplate. I'm wondering if Jaime located the pickup first, but located it in the middle of the pickup cavity by mistake? If the neck pocket isn't too short, then the scratchplate will be sitting over the end of the control plate.

So it's then either a question of moving the pickguard forward and trying to patch up the holes it's left behind, or getting a bespoke pickguard made up that has a bigger cut-out for the control plate and is a bit longer so that it meets the neck.

Jaime, we'd still like to see some photos!

* I've got a Tele with a home-made mahogany body that a mate of mine made years ago, but he did rout out the neck pocket too short so that it's got a gap between the pickguard and the neck like in the photo. The gap was originally (mainly) covered up by the overhang on a 22-fret neck, but that neck was very poorly fretted (I've since refretted it but have yet to quite finish it off), so I replaced it with a cheap used 21-fret neck from eBay. However, that leaves the gap exposed. Because it's a black pickguard, I simply coloured in the gap with a black Sharpie so that it was less noticeable, but come spring here, I'll be re-finishing the body, routing out the neck pocket to its proper depth and re-fitting the old neck.

Hey so yeah this is a left handed kit, not sure if it's because of that but there seem to be a few errors with different parts of the kit. My scratch plate was actually too small to hug both the neck of the guitar a the bridge pick up (ill send a photo through). So basically i had to choose a side to it to fit to. (and the bidrge pick up is pushed as forward as i can get it)
I found a sizing problem with the neck as well. I'm not sure how high it's meant to be but the neck is a lot higher than the body of the guitar, a lot more than the video. Though i figure there's not much i can do about that