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MandyMarie
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(Date Posted:10/07/2002 14:29:28)

What's your favorite color finish on a Telecaster?I love a good big chunky sparkle finish...but I think my all time favorite "drool"color is a bearly there early 50's aged butterscotch - I want it to look like it's been playing in smoke filled honkytonks every night since 1951 and it's owner was a smoker who didn't take that great 'a care of it...

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(Date Posted:10/07/2002 14:32:19)

heehee...I guess that should have gone in COMMENTS instead of TIPS and TRICKS....
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(Date Posted:10/08/2002 02:03:22)

My Tele is sunburst, but I prefer to keep it simple.

I mentioned in another thread that I'd like to get an ash body and just put a coat of laquer on it.

Then I'd like to take it into smoke filled honkytonks for the next 40 years or so!
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(Date Posted:10/18/2002 11:48:52)

Right now, mine is a 'relic'd Creme. I posted a pic on the Fender forum (Telecaster). I wanted it to look like Beck's Tele so I sanded, pounded, chipped and razor bladed paint cracks. It's a heavy Polyester finish so it was a lot tougher than lacquer..it won't even sunburn. I like not having to worry about dings and scratches now...more is better.
I may do a chunky flake finish one day. I restore/paint bikes and have done a few kool metalflake paint jobs. House of Kolor has the best flakes. I painted my Strat Kandy Lime green. Looks wicked with the Maple neck and Mutha of Toilet seat guard.

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(Date Posted:10/18/2002 22:06:34)

Ohh is that a sparkle lime green?

That sounds pretty hot!

I like really big chunky sparkles as well - does House of Kolor have a website or do you have a phone number on hand? Mmmmm...sparkle finishes

 
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(Date Posted:10/18/2002 22:12:23)

Hey Butnut (heehee) -

 

Did you relic the neck on your Tele as well? I ordered a replacement neck from Warmoth to go on a completely original 1952 Esquire body that is pretty beat...that neck is going to (obviously) look brand spankin' new and very out of place. It's an unfinished boatneck so if you did any aging to your neck I might be beggin' you for some tips.

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(Date Posted:10/19/2002 06:27:05)

Hey Mandy. My Strat is a Kandy Lime...no metalflakes. I do have a big jar of HOK green flakes I used on my sons pedal car and a few mopeds. It's not as ' school gliter' sized as in your pic, but they are bigger than the Micro-flakes. HOK has a site, but I did'nt see any flake samples. Their paint products are world reknown. I relic'd my neck with a Dremel, 120 grit sandpaper and furniture touch-up pens. Used a yellow and med. brown toner with 'oil flat' lacquer clear. It looks amazingly aged and tons better than 'baby-butt' white. See what I did to the headstock... Here's my Webshot album. There is another album you can click on showing the rest of my Tele-Gib project. Let me know if you have any more questions. Great place ya got here. You have quite the collection too!
http://community.webshots.com/album/52686162WRAIEv
Aloha

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(Date Posted:10/20/2002 08:55:47)

Thanks! And thanks for posting your site that was a really interesting journey you and that Tele went on! I can't even believe it's the same guitar between the first and last photos! You did a great job and that toner color is dead on - I'm going to be making a trip to Radio Shack tomorrow so I can age some screws, thanks a million for the tip!  
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(Date Posted:10/20/2002 11:22:55)

No problemo Mandy. I got the technique from this guy:
http://www.rhsdesign.com/fender51/resources.htm
His Tele is awesome. Although Greg Rogers did the finish work, he goes deep into the correct period stuff, switch, caps, it's mind blowing. Just the tiny details in search of getting as close to the original. Check out the whole site...his amp is off the chart, can you imagine the tone he must get with his Tele through that? Vintage Mojo recreated!
Just a hint. With screws, the plating is not that thick, so when you drop them in the chemical, it may need only 15-30 seconds to turn dull, any longer and they will blacken. Have a container of water to drop them in to stop the process. Rinse a few times in fresh water. Dry. On my string ferrules, I left them on the guitar. Use a Qtip and rub. As it dries, rub more on. Took me about 15 minutes of rubbing/drying to get a nice dull look. My Webshot album has more hints. Don't let the chemical get on the paint. Have a damp rag handy to wipe. Good luck.

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(Date Posted:10/20/2002 12:14:11)

I appreciate the help - I'm excited to get to Radio Shack tonight and do some experimenting in the laboratory    

 

You know what? I just bought a neck from Gregg Rogers a few weeks back and it arrived in the mail a few days ago...they're supposed to be licensed Fender parts, but for some reason that neck didn't even come close to fitting the Fender body I was planning to put it on. My fiance took the neck off another Tele we have just to see if maybe that body was slightly off, and sure enough it didn't fit it either. Neither one of us were too hip on having to do the sanding necessary to git that thing to fit and I definitely wasn't up for messing up that vintage body, so we sent it back. Full refund the second they got it in the mail...but still it bugs me because it looked and felt fantastic! Now I've got a Warmoth boatneck on the way and I'm sure it'll be pretty cool. Gregg's relic work is A1 though 

That is a REALLY cool website - and that guy did an incredible job with all the "fine" details...he even faked the pin router holes and the pot codes! Whew! I still can't believe he lucked into that milled jack!
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(Date Posted:10/21/2002 02:22:10)

I'm into details and anal...this guy is king! Did'nt some one repop those milled cup? Bummer on the neck pocket...was it a Mex body?

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(Date Posted:10/21/2002 07:27:54)

If milled jacks have ever been remanufactured it's news to me - if so...I'd like to get my hands on a couple 

 

Nope the body was a 1969 and the neck heel was too large. We also put it on a 1952 Esquire body just for kicks and it didn't fit it either. The only non-vintage Telecaster we have is a 1994 Danny Gatton model and we were too tired by the time we did all the playing with the other two that we didn't think to try it on it, but I seriously doubt it would have fit it either. I know the body shape changed through the years but the neck pocket is supposed to be identical cuts on every single Tele body. Oh well, Warmoth to the rescue 

The brown shoe polish that guy used on his Tele project worked wonders too...
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(Date Posted:10/21/2002 10:50:26)

My bad...I looked at the original and these look nothing like it...it is aluminum and is milled. Still, a nice design, I may get one, what another couple of holes on my relic?

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(Date Posted:10/24/2002 00:10:32)

I don't have any experience with them, but Electrosockets are one hellofa good idea 
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RE:What's your favorite Tele finish?
(Date Posted:01/22/2008 15:02:18)

The Electrosockets are a life saver.  All it took was one tour down south, at the Emtpy Glass in Charleston, WV.
Sitting there 20 minutes before show time trying to fix my jack.  As soon as I was back home, I ordered and installed the Electrosocket.


Finish wise, I have two black, one butterscotch, and one alpine [like so bright its painful] white, but what I really want is a double bound Antigua Burst with a birdseye maple neck / black dot inlays, and  single ply black guard.
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RE:What's your favorite Tele finish?
(Date Posted:02/15/2008 08:46:48)

Here's a replica of the Electrosocket:
http://store.guitarfetish.com/bleltyteoucu.html
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RE:What's your favorite Tele finish?
(Date Posted:02/15/2008 08:55:15)

All Telecasters are supposed to be sunburst, two-tone or three-tone, with maple fingerboards.  It should be a law.
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RE:What's your favorite Tele finish?
(Date Posted:02/27/2008 09:20:15)

I liked Butnut's green Esquire.


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Re:What's your favorite Tele finish?
(Date Posted:05/26/2009 10:07:33)

 blonde as of right now :D
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