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I like regular brown or dark back gold tops better I think. It’s a nice contrast to have to the gold in my opinion.
Here’s My Wildwood Spec “Featherweight” R4. The lighting makes the back look a bit darker than it is, but all gold would not make the top pop as much I think.
Wildwood guitars would also have ebony top R7’s and R8’s, pretty regularly, as part of their various Wildwood Spec series.
I have a Wildwood Featherweight ebony top R7 that looks very much like your guitar.
Fascinating guitar! I like it!
Is that a floating bridge like on a Jazzmaster/Jag?
If so it’s like a steampunk version!
As a bridge pickup and middle position kinda guy I’m also fascinated by the pickup configuration!
How’s it wired?
I’ve been playing since the late 80’s and this is the first time I’m hearing about needing to “break in” a guitar. It may need to acclimate to environmental factors and then set up, but that’s about it.
far out, I never realized that Fender put 1 Meg pots in any Telecaster!
One of the coolest Tele’s I’ve ever seen for sure.
Fender ought to do more black headstocks 😎
That’s quite clever. The only thing stopping me from trying it is that it wouldn’t look “vintage” anymore… in other words shallow pettiness, which annoys me.
For the record I’m back to top wrapping with 10’s (I was getting a bit of low E string buzz across the saddle with top wrapping 9’s). I...
Thank you Sir, and thanks for the explanation.
Yeah the neck angle seemed good to go to begin with, so that’s why I was wondering. But clearly I misunderstood, my apologies.
Best of luck with the project!