Louie Atienza's Hollow Quilt Top Tele

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Louie Atienza's Hollow Quilt Top Tele

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I normally don't post pics of customers' guitars... But this one is a bit special.

This will be going with me to the Philippines, and will be gifted to Church of St. Vicente in Bogo, Cebu.

The top is part tiger stripe, part quilt, and maybe some small burl inclusions, bookmatched. The back was milled from a one piece billet of Honduran mahogany. The neck is birdseye maple, with Gabon ebony fretboard and skunkstripe (the skunkstripe is just for show.) The fretboard is not actually bound, rather I made stringing of maple veneer and inlaid it into the fretboard. The dots are also maple.

I used ABS binding for the body. I normally don't like the look of plain white against the top wood so I added black purfling to set the top off from the binding.

Pickups are Seymour Duncan Jeff Beck bridge (I think) and YJM neck. The hollow body really contributes to a very fat, warm sound.

Bridge is a Schaller top-loader, and tuners are Gotoh. Strap buttons are Planet Waves. I will be making custom neckplate and control cavity cover and will post pics of those soon.
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That looks great Louie.
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Very nicely done, as always :D
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A nice telecaster, it looks a lot like mine! So naturally I would like it. 8-)
Is it a bolt-on neck then? And the humbucker in the bridge position....
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Re: Louie Atienza's Hollow Quilt Top Tele

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Thanks everyone for the kind words!

Mark, it is a bolt-on... Have pics of the back coming.

Yes the humbucker in the bridge, I figured someone would call me out on that. It's part of my Kramer/Charvel roots I guess! The neck pickup is actually a stacked single coil, so it is hum-cancelling as well!

Here's a pic of the innards after being shelled out...
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That's one hot lookin' Tele, Louie! I like everything about it.
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Thanks Chad! The moe I play it, the more I don't want to send it!
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