Joshs 1st build TL-1R

[Joshy]

Hello! I'm a guitar building noob from Brisbane. Here's my first attempt, a Pitbull TL-1R... With a rosewood fretboard!

Finished in dairy blonde with the ageing tint.
It turned out a sort of pale-yellowy-peanut buttery colour thanks to the ageing tint. Really happy with the final result and looking forward to it wearing down.

She's completely stock, except for the 3 ply white pickguard. Came supplied with black which looked really good too. It was a tough choice between the two.

My only concern with the kit was the 11th fret, which appears to be a smaller gauge of fretwire than the others. Kind of strange, but I don't mind.

I'm really happy with the quality of the kit, and the customer service from Pitbull Guitars has been incredible! A big thanks to Adam and the Pitbull crew for taking such good care of me. With that, plus this awesome forum community, you've made a customer for life out of me!

Anyways, enough talk, here's some pics!

EDIT: the pics look yellower than she does in real life.

[lawry]

Hi Josh. Looks great. Would've loved to watch you build it. How does she sound?

[Andyport]

That looks sweet as, Josh....excellent effort straight up.
Well done.

[Brendan]

Pretty speckie for a first build - you should be proud!

[gavinturner]

Great result Josh, she looks awesome! Bet you are happy with her. Any chance of a sound demo?
Congratulations!

cheers,
Gav.

[Dengreg]

Well done Josh, I am in the middle of my first build and hope it turns out as good as yours.

[adam]

Excellent job, Josh. Very tasty.

Make sure you enter this in Guitar of the Month.

[zeromick]

Nice job man, love the color!

[Joshy]

Thanks very much for the kind responses!

The stock pickups sound pretty sweet to my ears. To be fair, I've never played a tele or anything with single coils before so I have nothing to compare it with sound wise through my rig.
Also, never having played anything but LPs, I'm finding the Fender scale takes a bit of getting used to. I kinda like it tho, the bigger neck makes for a comfy F barre chord with my hands-- (I always struggle with that one!)

As for a sound demo, I'll give it a couple of days before I set her up properly, then I might record a little clip for you guys.

Thanks again!

[Fretworn]

Well done Josh. That's a pretty guitar.