Checkerboard Squares Tele
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This is a pretty straight forward Tele-style design. All of the Specimen tenets apply here: non-adjustable steel truss rod, precise neck joint, hand carved neck, cellulose nitrate finish.
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Neck
Screw in flame maple
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Scale Length
25-1/2" or to order
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Truss Rod
Non adjustable steel reinforcement
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Frets
Dunlop 6105
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Fretboard
Rosewood
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Body
Alder with book-matched flame maple top, nitro-cellulose finish
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Pickup
Fralin soap bar P90 in neck, Fralin Tele-bridge pickup
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Controls
One volume knob, one tone knob, 4-way switch for series parallel
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Bridge
Vintage-style
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Other
Multi-ply checkerboard binding
The thing I love about a Telecaster is that it is such a solid, timeless design, but it is also a blank canvas for all manner of expression.
In this case the custom-made checkerboard binding, the micro-burst into a flaming orange finish on the guitar’s top, and the P-90 Soapbar in the neck position (thanks to Lindy Fralin’s excellent work) help set this instrument apart from the usual fare.
Creating the binding from scratch was quite an adventure. Instead of using pre-fab two dimensional binding, I created my own 3-D checkerboard tiles from wooden sticks normally used for the rosette inlay found on classical guitars. It was an extremely time-consuming process, and something that required specialized fixtures and new processes. Read more about the process in our Blog.
