A Custom Build Telecaster Style guitar to Equal Fender’s Custom Shop at an Affordable Price? (PART 12) – This final video captures all the main highlights of the previous videos so you can see this guitar project being built from start to finish within 20 minutes. While this presentation is highly compressed it has a detailed voice-over useful for anyone looking to do something similar...

At the end of July 2024 I began building my own Custom Shop Telecaster Style Guitar – something that I hope would equal the Fender Custom Shop guitars I have in the studio – but, at a much lower cost and produced using fairly basic tools. The outcome.... a guitar I am very pleased with, it easily sits alongside the Fenders...

In Part 1 - The foundation of any guitar project - The Body and Neck and the reasons why I made the choices I did. ( [ Ссылка ] )

In Part 2 - Preparation, sanding sealing, priming and first coats of amber lacquer for neck & headstock. Danish Oil treatment for the rosewood fretboard. ( [ Ссылка ] )

In Part 3 – The body metallic colour & clear-coats, transfers on the headstock and final coats of lacquer. ( [ Ссылка ] )

In part 4 - Hardware & electrics, listing where not to ‘cheap-out’ on items. Ageing Chrome & Nickel accessories. ( [ Ссылка ] )

In part 5 - Headstock, neck and fingerboard preparation for the Relic Custom Shop look and feel. ( [ Ссылка ] )

In Part 6 – Time to Relic The Body, Conductive Paint & Final Clear-Coat lacquers. ( [ Ссылка ] )

In Part 7 – Headstock and neck, the final leg of sanding, cutting compound, polishing and buffing to a mirror glaze. Final sanding of the back of the neck ( [ Ссылка ] )

In Part 8 - The body is sanded, cut, polished and buffed to a mirror glaze. This is followed by lacquer checking and fitting the electrics and hardware. ( [ Ссылка ] )

In Part 9 – The guitar is complete and it’s time for a set-up. The doorbell rings as the final item is delivered to complete the custom guitar project build. ( [ Ссылка ] )

In Part 10A - It's time to compare the “Bluebird” custom built guitar up against the Fender Custom Shop Telecasters and ask some fundamental questions. ( [ Ссылка ] )

In Part 10B - Over the weeks I have been asked a number of questions regarding the T-Style guitar build project and in this video I attempt to give some answers. ( [ Ссылка ] )

In Part 11 - I change out the Fender Texas Special pick-ups for Fender Pure Vintage 64s hoping that this will be closer to the tones I am looking for in this Telecaster style build. ( [ Ссылка ] )

In this final video of the series I bring together all 11 videos and compress them down into a 20 minute presentation. However, I have voiced-over to give a good amount of detail throughout for all those that like videos that get to the point quickly... Enjoy!

My other playlists -
- Custom Guitar Build Project
- Q&As Answering topical questions…
- Stu's Guitar Recording Journey
- Unboxing Music Equipment Videos
- Stu's Guitar Journey! (12 part Video Series)
- Guitar Backing Tracks - Blues, Ballads and Cinematic
- Stu's Guitar Channel short Trailer

If you have not watched the actual build series and you are looking to build a guitar yourself... take some time-out to watch the whole series as it covers many important points when building a Partscaster style guitar. Part 1 starts here - ( [ Ссылка ] )

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