I wasn’t too sure that I would even post a build diary for Lyn #10. I started this build over a month ago, and if it failed I was just going to keep schtum about it. But that’s a bit of a cop-out and by starting the diary I now have to finish it, one way or another. And if it is a “fail” maybe my experience will help someone else.
The project is on hold for now until I finish building a guitar for a friend, so this will probably be a slow build.
First off I have already built 2 TL’s so I wanted something a bit different for this one. I fell in love with the P90 pickup in my DC Jnr build so thought I would build this TL with a pair of P90’s.
My research ended up leading me down the path to La Cabronita Tele’s. They look so stripped back and cool, so I thought I’d give it a go.
To convert the standard TL kit body to suit a La Cab P90 I needed to reshape the routing for the pickups and do away with the front control plate route and rebate a rear access plate to the electrics. Easy huh.
So the project begins.
Fill in the control panel route? Easy peasy. Cut a small piece of ply and reshape the rebate and Bob’s your proverbial. Once done I just needed to extend the control panel route all the way through to the back of the guitar and make a new cover for the back. Done.
Pic 1. – Rebate the control panel to take new cover
Pic 2. – New control cover ready to fit.
Pic 3. – Cut the control access panel through to the back of the guitar and rebate for the new plastic cover
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