Chuck's "Reverse Nashville" scratch build

[dave.king1]

I'm hearing you on the tuning thing Chuck but it does provide a great soundscape when you have two guitars in standard and NV tuning, think early Eagles twin lead sound.

I have yet to try and explain to the wife why I need a fourth Tele just for NV tuning, each guitar in the herd has totally different voicing and adding another unique voice "must" be a good thing.

I haven't got to bari's, hollow body or Gibby style yet , but to be honest I am not at home with the shorter scale length and have 2 HB guitars already.

I'm thinking F type VI if/when that happens, GR style would just about fill the quiver ( until I need a double bound burst Tele with ash body, rosewood board and 60 spec pups to replace a lost love that matches that description, well north of $20K if I could find her again )

[FrankenWashie]

I haven't got to bari's, hollow body or Gibby style yet , but to be honest I am not at home with the shorter scale length and have 2 HB guitars already.

I'm thinking F type VI if/when that happens, GR style would just about fill the quiver ( until I need a double bound burst Tele with ash body, rosewood board and 60 spec pups to replace a lost love that matches that description, well north of $20K if I could find her again )

I can loan you a 28.5" scale ibanez MMM1, but it is twin HB so may not float your tonal boat DK

[Fretworn]

Probably way to early to put something up, but somehow starting a build diary makes you focus. Not that I don't have enough going at the moment with three other builds!!

After scoring a reverse headstock strat neck from Ponch I decided to do something that would suit it. First step was roughly cutting out a reverse Jazzmaster body shape...

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It's okay, but that lower horn just wasn't right, so a bit more cutting and I've got something I think I can work with...

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And so to the plan. I stumbled across this Tonefiend piece on three pickup "Nashville Tele" wiring and it looked interesting - so that's the wiring/pickup plan. I'm undecided on whether to go a hardtail bridge or a Jazzmaster trem unit but I don't have to worry about that yet I guess. I want to keep this one reasonably simple so a solid colour finish and no tricky stuff should be the go. Anyway, don't expect too many updates for a while until I finish the others but at least it's underway!

I've been racking my brain, because I'm sure Fender released a guitar that looked like this, basically an upside down jazzmaster body, I think with humbuckers. I can't remember what it was called so I can't find a picture of it.

[Chuck]

I've been racking my brain, because I'm sure Fender released a guitar that looked like this, basically an upside down jazzmaster body, I think with humbuckers. I can't remember what it was called so I can't find a picture of it.

You got me interested Fretty so I started hunting and I think I've found it - actually a little disappointed as I thought it was my idea!!



It's from the Pawn Shop series and it's called a Super-Sonic. Mine will be a bit different though so not a direct copy - interesting how they also played with the lower horn to make it look better, almost exactly as I did.

[wokkaboy]

Hey Chuck, I've seen something like that shape before. The chance of making a totally original guitar shape are very slim as just about avery shape has already been done - check out beautiful and ugly guitar threads haha

[JB RETRO]

Jeez Chuck I'd swear we're in the same groove but different. You do a Surfcaster, and me then you inadvertantly do a pawn shop strat. Something weird here. Ha

[Chuck]

Jeez Chuck I'd swear we're in the same groove but different. You do a Surfcaster, and me then you inadvertantly do a pawn shop strat. Something weird here. Ha

Great minds obviously!!

[Simon Barden]

Fender obviously modded the inverted Jazz/Jag shape to get better upper fret access, just like Chuck did. Same problem, same solution!

[Fretworn]

You got me interested Fretty so I started hunting and I think I've found it - actually a little disappointed as I thought it was my idea!!



It's from the Pawn Shop series and it's called a Super-Sonic. Mine will be a bit different though so not a direct copy - interesting how they also played with the lower horn to make it look better, almost exactly as I did.

That's it, I knew it was a "Super" something.