rareform707
Well-Known Member
so my parents were talking to one of their friends, and he mentioned to them that he had a guitar he wanted me to fix up...so i call the guy and ask him to drop it off and tell me what he wants me to do...i open the case and discover........
a 1967 fender telecaster!
it checks out...
so he recieved the guitar in this condition...no hardware at all, except for these well installed, obviously aftermarket grover tuners
anyways he wanted me to restore it to playing condition, and then he was going to sell it and give me a good chunk of whatever he made. i looked the guitar over and well...its in rough shape to say the least!
more pictures...
the neck is in good condition...just needs to be cleaned, and the frets need to be recrowned...probably needs an entire refret sooner than later, but im not going to worry about that at this point. oh and new tuners, ha!
however i cant even begin to explain all the problems i found with the body
two huge cracks in the base of the body, the routing job of a beaver which includes a les paul esque switch cavity?! and a cavity for a humbucker between the two stock pickups?! in addition it looks like whoever was doing the mods made more room in the neck position for a humbucker (just my opinion)...and theres a second hole for a jack 
to top it off the finish is stripped off, but the parts of the body covered by pickguards, hardware, or the trem are still partially/fully finished. so these covered parts of the wood are raised from the rest of the body... A+ work
anyways i came to the conclusion that im gonna scrap the body, and need to buy a new body if i want to rebuild it with decent quality. i called the guy and told him and he said it wasnt worth that much to him, so i could have it! anyways i dont have a 6-string right now, so i think ill follow through with restoring it...just a with new body
kinda sad to say that but i honestly dont think i could make this one look pretty at all. if anyone wants the body, for whatever reason, pm me! i dont think i even want to keep it...however if any of you guys think it could be done with this body, let me know...many of you have more experience than i do 
a 1967 fender telecaster!
it checks out...
so he recieved the guitar in this condition...no hardware at all, except for these well installed, obviously aftermarket grover tuners
anyways he wanted me to restore it to playing condition, and then he was going to sell it and give me a good chunk of whatever he made. i looked the guitar over and well...its in rough shape to say the least!
more pictures...
the neck is in good condition...just needs to be cleaned, and the frets need to be recrowned...probably needs an entire refret sooner than later, but im not going to worry about that at this point. oh and new tuners, ha!
however i cant even begin to explain all the problems i found with the body
two huge cracks in the base of the body, the routing job of a beaver
which includes a les paul esque switch cavity?! and a cavity for a humbucker between the two stock pickups?! in addition it looks like whoever was doing the mods made more room in the neck position for a humbucker (just my opinion)...and theres a second hole for a jack to top it off the finish is stripped off, but the parts of the body covered by pickguards, hardware, or the trem are still partially/fully finished. so these covered parts of the wood are raised from the rest of the body... A+ work
anyways i came to the conclusion that im gonna scrap the body, and need to buy a new body if i want to rebuild it with decent quality. i called the guy and told him and he said it wasnt worth that much to him, so i could have it! anyways i dont have a 6-string right now, so i think ill follow through with restoring it...just a with new body
kinda sad to say that but i honestly dont think i could make this one look pretty at all. if anyone wants the body, for whatever reason, pm me! i dont think i even want to keep it...however if any of you guys think it could be done with this body, let me know...many of you have more experience than i do 
part of me kind of gave up and keeps telling me that. but like i said in my previous post, i havent given up just yet. honestly though the thing is horrible. i didnt bother taking pictures of the base, where its completely split in two spots, one of these cracks extends down the back of the guitar. and the pictures i did take actually do the body justice...
