Nashville Tele, Part 2
I'm laughing at myself. I had "Blackie" and sold it because I was going to "get out" of electric guitars. Well, that didn't last long and eventually I found myself wanting another Nashville Tele, although this time I wanted a real Nashville Tele with all 3 pups. Off to Ebay!
The stock configuration didn't last long. Oh, it sounded good alright, but, what with a Tele bridge and neck, it was too much Telecaster and I was really interested in something a little different. So, it was back to the same humbucker/Tele configuration I had on "Blackie". Before I did that, though, I also ran this guitar as a single pickup "Esquire". That was kind of interesting and it really did seem to "loosen up" the bridge pickup.
That's a Fender Relic Nocaster bridge pickup. Everything else is stock. The 5-way is rigged just like "Blackie" was: single, single/Tele, Tele, Tele/hum, hum. It's simple to wire and easy to use.
The string spacing was awful on the original nut. I just filled the slots in with baking soda/superglue and re-cut them and if you look carefully you can see just how much space I was able to get, plus now the strings are equally spaced. Otherwise, I like the Nashville neck. It has a flatter than vintage radius and medium-jumbo frets and feels good.
I'm not going to sell this one.