Behold: the Super-tele

[krankguitarist]

Thinkin I'm gonna put some chrome pickup rings on it, the dice were just some knobs I had layin around...I'm thinkin that I'm not gonna go with the traditonal chrome dome knobs...but somthing else chrome would be cool.

[That90'sGuy]

Korina is simply one of the most beautiful things to be seen on a guitar. That super tele is freakin' sweet! I'm not much for coil splitting with humbuckers, but it looks like one heck of a setup and I'd love to hear clips of it

[Stratman]

Nice work - Now turn that Fender backplate around so that it read properly...

[rguser]

korina rules.
your room looks like mine.

[B Bent]

Amazing. A telecaster that is actually almost cool. Well done.

(but it's still a telecaster. that just can't be fixed)

What a dork!!!! Teles rule!!



just messin with ya bro!!

Nice Tele though!!!!

[XSSIVE]

nice strap!!! i gotta get one of those!

oh yeah, the tele is cool too. LOL

seriously, cool idea that came out looking good! although i think all black hardware would have went a bit better due to the dark streaks in the wood.

-Mike

[krankguitarist]

nice strap!!! i gotta get one of those!

oh yeah, the tele is cool too. LOL

seriously, cool idea that came out looking good! although i think all black hardware would have went a bit better due to the dark streaks in the wood.

-Mike

Been thinkin bout maybe doin that actually...Got a brian moore comin in with chrome hardware that i might wanna replace the bridge on...could just buy a black bridge and swap em out. The f***ing mini-switch broke today though. Cheap piece of ****. i guess its back to the music store...

[ex-250]

It actually went through about two incarnations before it came to this...i gotta say that the pics arent all so great on this one...the colors are a bit washed out. Its much more dramatic in person.

The first incarnation was the tele bari: Baritone guitar, abalone pickguard, I put a dimarzio breed bridge and chopper neck in there:



Next incarnation was the tele cool: This is where I got the scalloped board...diamond plate guard, flame bridge and control plate, put a dimarzio fred and two choppers in there. Later on the choppers were replaced with lindly fralin blues specials.



I would have kept it as the tele cool, but the body was a bit uncomfortable, plus a little flash for my tastes...I kinda like to keep things a little more subdued .

Both those were before I switched over to duncans too...

So, for the new body I wanted somthin special, so I settled on a one-piece korina body, and put a couple of hums in it. Simple, but reeks of awesome.

holy crap i LOVE that finish! looks great with the diamond plate too

[Hoss]

looks pretty good man...i think some korina knobs would look cool as well!?

[Zerberus]

Nice axe.... but I have to admit I´d rather have the pool

[Rich_S]

I'm not sure if anyone actually plays a scalloped Tele, but his name would have to be Yngwie-Bob.

[Pecan]

I would have killed for that tele cool, what did you do with it?

[Guitar Toad]

Great looking Super Tele! Very nice.
It made me very nervous to see it so close the the water.
Beautiful pics nevertheless.

Looks very much like the G&L's Invader. Very nice.

[krankguitarist]

I would have killed for that tele cool, what did you do with it?

Ah, it was an alder/maple top combo...I wanted somthing a bit more exotic than alder (already got a few other guitars made out of alder). Plus, the standard tele body was just a little too bulky for me, I like to sling my axes a little higher than normal and the edges were jutting into me. Plus...the bridge wasn't mounted correctly, blah blah blah blah...

it just had a whole bunch of problems, but looked really cool, so I decided to trade flash for tone, and I'm pretty happy with it now