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cakes wrote: Tue Jun 04, 2024 8:00 pm I want to do a mahogany Tele custom with a roasted maple neck and rosewood fretboard. Make it more like a Les Paul meets a Tele, with a humbucker neck and single coil bridge. This post is just inspiring me to take the plunge!

They make Gibson scale conversion necks too if you're really trying to get it in LP territory.

penningtron wrote: Wed Jun 05, 2024 6:29 am

cakes wrote: Tue Jun 04, 2024 8:00 pm I want to do a mahogany Tele custom with a roasted maple neck and rosewood fretboard. Make it more like a Les Paul meets a Tele, with a humbucker neck and single coil bridge. This post is just inspiring me to take the plunge!

They make Gibson scale conversion necks too if you're really trying to get it in LP territory.

Nah, I'm going with Strat neck on the tele body, at least because I like the bigger headstock. I might just go with a standard neck shape, or maybe something thicker. haven't decided yet.

I did something similar during covid, I did a warmoth Tele Custom build, pretty close to your specs: roasted maple neck, wide range Fralin in the neck, and another Fralin single coil in the bridge, but for the body I did the opposite and got a really light Swamp Ash body. Turned out really good and feels like its going to float away if I switch over from my Bean.

cakes wrote: Wed Jun 05, 2024 10:52 am

penningtron wrote: Wed Jun 05, 2024 6:29 am

cakes wrote: Tue Jun 04, 2024 8:00 pm I want to do a mahogany Tele custom with a roasted maple neck and rosewood fretboard. Make it more like a Les Paul meets a Tele, with a humbucker neck and single coil bridge. This post is just inspiring me to take the plunge!

They make Gibson scale conversion necks too if you're really trying to get it in LP territory.

Nah, I'm going with Strat neck on the tele body, at least because I like the bigger headstock. I might just go with a standard neck shape, or maybe something thicker. haven't decided yet.

Brian meant they make necks to convert to Gibson scale length. Headstock could still be Fender style.

I’ve been wanting to create a guitar with my favorite things on it too. Telecaster bridge and bridge pickup. Jazzmaster neck pickup. Jazzmaster body (or maybe Tele body with the Deluxe style cuts). 70s headstock. Headstock truss access. Telecaster control plate. 500k pots as a compromise.

tommy wrote: Wed Jun 05, 2024 11:13 am

cakes wrote: Wed Jun 05, 2024 10:52 am

penningtron wrote: Wed Jun 05, 2024 6:29 am

They make Gibson scale conversion necks too if you're really trying to get it in LP territory.

Nah, I'm going with Strat neck on the tele body, at least because I like the bigger headstock. I might just go with a standard neck shape, or maybe something thicker. haven't decided yet.

Brian meant Gibson scale length. Headstock could still be Fender style.

Yep.



This is my La Cabronita inspired Tele with a Gibson conversion neck that I bought 2nd hand. Neck is Warmoth, I think the body is something else. The 1.25" shorter neck (erm.. not just neck, but the distance between nut and bridge blah blah) makes a big difference in feel and string tension, a bit less bright in sound too (other factors there of course).

Not that there's anything wrong with Fender scale, but if you keep reaching for the LP over other guitars the scale length could be a big reason why.

Is roasted maple a whole thing now? The name grosses me out so that one is off my list forever.

I’ve had three Warmoth guitars and all were great except this one I bought second hand that was put together kind of fucked up by the previous owner and was never quite right afterwards. I just parted it out.

Roasted maple's been a thing for a while. What's gross about the name? It's just maple that's been dried, which makes it less susceptible to weather/humidity changes and means it doesn't need a finish. Turns the maple a nice caramel color too.

They're good to go as is, but I burnish the necks (not the fretboards), going from 400 to 2000 grit, makes them smooth AF and they stay that way.

I bought a Roasted Maple baritone neck from Warmoth eons ago—it’s currently on a Squier Tele body. Came out pretty nice and I especially liked at the time not having to pay extra for finishing it.

My old Warmoth P bass had a roasted maple neck. Most comfortable neck I've ever played. I had a Reverend guitar with a roasted maple neck and it was just as good. I have longed to have a roasted maple neck again!

penningtron wrote: Wed Jun 05, 2024 11:55 am This is my La Cabronita inspired Tele with a Gibson conversion neck that I bought 2nd hand. Neck is Warmoth, I think the body is something else. The 1.25" shorter neck (erm.. not just neck, but the distance between nut and bridge blah blah) makes a big difference in feel and string tension, a bit less bright in sound too (other factors there of course).

Not that there's anything wrong with Fender scale, but if you keep reaching for the LP over other guitars the scale length could be a big reason why.

What I like about the Les Paul is the neck pickup and the guitar sound, which I'm gonna guess is that darker quality of mahogany. Not a big fan of the bridge pickup, though. I'd rather have something other than a humbucker there, something a little less hot and nasaly. I do like the neck, but I also like Fender necks. I haven't noticed the difference in tension, though.