Recent content by Desade

It's ok....it's not a bad joke, my name IS Marcus and a previous band singer decided to make me more metal than metal, hence the Desade moniker!! Cheestastic huh? I figured on Mahogany as I love those darker midrange tones which I think (personal opinion) make for better overdriven tones. I'm...

p.s. the last reply was to Tig***. I either don't have too many permissions here or I'm just not getting how to use all the reply options!!!! :-)

After seeing your pictures I whipped my neck off and found the neck pocket gave me a lot better view of the grain of the body. There's very little difference between the colour of the growth rings and rest of the wood, and has an overall colour of very light tan with a hint of pink.......I...

Thanks for the replies, I should make it clear I'm not aiming to change the Tele (and wouldn't, it's lovely as it is!) but want to make my own guitar using alder but perhaps with a mahogany cap. I wanted to up load some pictures of the wood of the tele as seen through the cracks but I don't...

Hi, I've built a number of guitars over the years sticking to the mahogany body/maple neck/rosewood fingerboard format as befits my interest in warm heavy rock tones. Recently however I came into possession of a cheap '92 japanese Fender Tele (N serial number...I hear there's a possibility...