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I've been working on a detailed blueprint of the body and body componenents. Here's what I have so far. It isn't proofed or refined but pretty close: 182640

I'm just going to do a thin coat of amber tinted shellac for now. Might spray with white blonde nitro later.

I will give my two cents about the brass saddles. They do all the 'bad' things that Verne says but to me those are all good things. Depends what you want out of the instrument.

Meanwhile I've started in on major mods.

I drilled the back of the headstock for vintage style Klusons.

I wet sanded the rear of the headstock clean and the front down to a 'Nocaster' decal...

I made the adapters myself out of keychain blanks from the ‘stamp your own stuff’ section at Hobby Lobby. Cut, drilled, tapped.

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Thanks Huck,
The brass saddles with adapters sound great. They add complexity compared to the strat saddles.

I got a set of six tele style mini brass saddles and tried them today.
They sounded...

Baron, I’d be interested in one with the pickup cutout, and one with no pickup cutout, Esquire style.

Good news! I heard back from Fender and have some production numbers! Also, I got a shipping notification for my fiesta red Tenor Tele so the last of them should all be shipping out soon.

From...

I started a Facebook group for Tenor Tele owners, if anyone is interested:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/580108582807903/?ref=share

So between the chat and the email I take it to mean that they have concluded production on these (they were announced as limited for 2019 after all) and the rest of the Tenor Teles are all built but...

Thanks Huck!

I called Fender to ask about the status of my Fiesta Red order because I hadn't gotten any tracking info. I got an email reply:

From Fender:

Dec 16, 11:48 MST

Hi Jacob,

Yes, that’s what they told me in live chat:

Chat started: 2019-12-13 05:54 PM UTC

(05:54:18 PM) Jacob: Hello, is the Alternate Reality Tenor Tele in Lake Placid Blue going to be back in stock?...

My local music shop had an Eastwood tenor. I picked it up and tried playing it and was not impressed at all. Something about it wasn't right for me. I've also tried the Warren Ellis Mustang shaped...

Hello Baron,
I agree about the break angle problem on the first string. On mine the high E has a changy chorus kind of tone when open because of the lack of a string tree.

I think staggered...

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I got a butterscotch blonde tenor tele from Chicago Music Exchange.
I love it!
So much that I ordered a fiesta red one from Fender. I messaged...