pickinpops tele project

won a black body from ebay, made a checkerboard pickguard,added a mighty mite neck, drilled body and added a joe barden string thru bridge, gotah black tuners with pearl buttons, guitar sounds great and plays like butter, total cost 235 dollars plus 15 for matching strap

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[chirogirl67550]

Beautiful guitar....now your playing Bob's music...he builds, sets and repairs guitars too. I'll show him this video tonight--thanks for sharing....You've got yourself one fine looking guitar there.

Peace,

Yvonne and Bob

Ava, Illinois

[pickinpop]

thanks, i got 7 projects going on at this time including 2 i will build the necks from scratch to match some quilted maple bodys i have. years ago i built acoustic guitars and mandolins and did violin repair on a lot of very expensive violins. back then there were no kits, we bent the wood carved the necks from scratch, im excited to get back into this, i quit in 1983, due to a record flood then divorce and career change.. just fineshed a new elec mandolin should post it here soon. thanks always

[Jazzguts]

Hi Pop, I think you can start your own guitar shop and make some nice money,developing and customizing several guitar-types,great job here ,greets Vic(from Spain on vacation).

[pickinpop]

hi Vic, years ago i built several acoustic guitars and mandolins, and repaired many instruments. other things such as raising kids come into play but now im finding time to pursue this again, i currently have 6 projects, 4 tele, 2 strat and ijust finished an electric mandolin. its a lot of fun doing this. thanks as always for watching and commenting, take care always my friend

[ib2fast]

Nice Job! Sounds GREAT! *****

Looks Good Too!

[pickinpop]

thanks so much for taking time to comment

[mbuckhannon]

very nice!

[edudzzaj]

Nice looking tele, sounds sweet too.

Always liked the sound you get from a telecaster, they can be super twangy or really warm and smooth.

Hope to see some of your other guitar projects.

Stian

[knyqjee12]

That is awesome! I have a tele as well, except it has an extra middle pickup in the middle, kinda strat-like. I have been looking far and wide for an after market pickguard that would fit it but I have had no luck. Since you do work and all, would you be willing to modify a pick guard to fit mine if I sent it to you with along with a template of the guard that is currently on it, so you could get the measurements and size of the additional pickup slot? Send me a private message. Great work!

[chirogirl67550]

It's Saturday morning and we're having a cup of coffee, watching Pickinpops drill away...We think you should film all your repairing...You know, like the Bob Villa of guitar repair.... We enjoyed it...

Peace,

Yvonne and Bob

Ava,Illinois

[grewejames]

Looks like fun. You call that scratch artistic character.