{"id":41,"date":"2013-05-12T08:14:43","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T08:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenwillmott.com\/blog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2014-02-03T03:38:14","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T03:38:14","slug":"japanese-telecaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenwillmott.com\/blog\/archives\/41","title":{"rendered":"Bacchus Telecaster Re-worked"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_42\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kenwillmott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/DSCN0320_001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42\" alt=\"Bacchus Telecaster Clone with Humbucking Pickup\" src=\"https:\/\/kenwillmott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/DSCN0320_001-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kenwillmott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/DSCN0320_001-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kenwillmott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/DSCN0320_001-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/kenwillmott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/DSCN0320_001.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-42\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bacchus Telecaster Clone with Humbucking Pickup<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This guitar was for sale at a great price at a Chengdu guitar store. I sold the single coil pickups to the store owner, who wanted them. I routed the body to accept a middle humbucker, and expanded the neck pickup rout to accept a future Strat pickup. This would almost make a &#8220;Nashville Tele&#8221;. It&#8217;s staying in China for now. The dimensions are not quite the same as Telecaster, so I couldn&#8217;t mix and match much. It&#8217;s a great neck, someone previously had carefully dressed the frets (not me). The new pickup is a Seymour Duncan JB SH-4. The old pickup holes have been filled with black electrical tape. No, not duct tape!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This guitar was for sale at a great price at a Chengdu guitar store. I sold the single coil pickups to the store owner, who wanted them. I routed the body to accept a middle humbucker, and expanded the neck pickup rout to accept a future Strat pickup. This would almost make a &#8220;Nashville Tele&#8221;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guitars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenwillmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenwillmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenwillmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenwillmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenwillmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kenwillmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/kenwillmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenwillmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenwillmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenwillmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}