Greetings from Finland

[stl80]

Very nice.
Jim

[nategibson]

moi latvis.
cool website, nice guitars and great tunes.
kiitos!
welcome to the forum.

-nate

[101Volts]

WOOP WOOP

I'm just alerting anyone who replies in the future that this thread was posted in 2010. I decided to reply again due to the pictures of the guitar. Check out the photos of the Telerite! I like it, I'd like to build one like it too - The comfort of a MK V or Ventures II and the tone of a Telecaster? Yes. And the pickguard as seen on Thinline telecasters fits in with it well!

What are you going to put on as a finish, Are you going to have a natural finish on it?

Austin

Unfortunately I cannot spray anything because I live in 5th floor of basic apartment. (Neighbours like me already very much because I love router sound in the sunday mornings

I just use some maple/mahogany mixed stains + Danish Oil + Beewax. This is not good because the body is very soft Finnish Adler (if you have coins & keys in the pocket you will get dings..."Best way to fix dings is to tap the side opposite of the ding, with a hammer."). Neck is maple and the fingerboard is Bloodwood (from lmii.com). It is beautiful and very hard but tears easily and seems that I am allergic to its dust.

Take a look - after 20 hours of work my first attempt to built Mosrite-like is now ready http://www.rockdata.org/Latvis_mosri-te-le.jpg. (zoom photo to 100%). I am quite satisfied to this quick one (balance is good, action is low and 20 Euros Tele pickup set sounds suprising good). This is just basic "will-soon-just-hanging-on-the-wall" guitar for my old school friend from 80s who has 50th anniversary next weekend. I think that this one will never go to any real live situation... after my short birthday gig...

BTW. I know my first copy is really far away from real Mosrite (or Tele) but has some things from both. I will build another one with some more odd ideas I got building this http://www.rockdata.org/Latvis_mosri-te-le.jpg .

All the best

-Latvis
rockdata.org

- Austin