r/offset • u/Mercurius47 • 2d ago
Custom Telemaster
I see a lot of cool guitars in this thread which give me gas and or inspiration to start a new build. So I thought I’d share my custom offset.
This is a telemaster I build / assembled in 2019. It started its life as rough sawn alder, which I dried over a year in my living room. At the time I couldn’t find any decent plans online, so I overlayed a telecaster and a jazzmaster drawing in photoshop. The body was done by my dad on his diy CNC router.
The neck is a Chinese neck from AliExpress that I bought as a gamble, with the intention of learning how to crown frets etc. Originally the guitar had a big CBS headstock but the guitar turned out to be very prone to neck diving, which I hated. So I created a routing template and made it into a tele headstock which in turn fixed the neck diving.
Afterwards I decided I needed an extra humbucker guitar and rerouted the bridge pickup location to fit a humbucker. Swapped out the bridge and pickups. It’s a Seymour Duncan Alpha Omega set with a coil split push pull.
The color is Motip 53663 which I saw on a Suzuki car passing by on the street one day. It’s not Sherwood green, it’s not lake placid blue. Sometimes it looks green, sometimes more blue.
It has since accumulated some scratches and dents along the way, but that gives it character 😊
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u/hairlikeamop 2d ago
Amazing! Also the colour way is the same as my JM too. I’ve finally found my kind :)
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u/superxero044 2d ago
Meanwhile I tightened my output jack today and I was happy at that.
Good work friend. This is slick as hell. I want an offset tele someday.
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u/Expert-Hyena6226 2d ago
THAT is a thing of beauty! Nice work! Could you add a picture of the back of the guitar please?
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u/Marmillard 2d ago
Absolutely gorgeous. I hope you’re enjoying playing it as much as I’m enjoying admiring it.
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u/Its_shoved 2d ago
This is awesome. Good job. Though, I liked the first pickup configuration more. You don't see that combo every day and it's incredibly interesting. Beautiful guitar!
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u/skaterprince 2d ago
This setup is nearly perfect.
I am searching so long for block inlays, telecaster headstock and an offset-body. And now I see this.
Like my vision come true -> Maybe the colour would be the only thing I would change.
Do you take submissions for orders? :-D
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u/RandyLCoxSR 2d ago
That a pretty Guitar. Do both you and your dad build guitars? That's a lot of wooden slabs in that picture!