Telecaster Makeover – Custom Shop Twisted Tele Pickups and the Bigsby B5 Fender Vibrato Kit

In this episode, we start the telecaster makeover. This is a Made in Mexico Fender telecaster from 1992. This was actually Beard’s first electric guitar. Over the last few months we have been doing a daily livestream and have had many interesting conversations with guests and friends who have joined us for the chat. The idea for this makeover resulted from many of those conversations. So, thank you to everyone that has joined us for the livestreams! Fender was kind enough to help us out by sending us the Pinwheel pedal for our That Leslie Sounds series. After the strong recommendations from friends of the show we reached out to Fender and they agreed to send us the Twisted Tele pickups. How cool is it that they suggested adding the B5 Bigsby too!

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Don’t have time to watch the whole video? Check out these video timestamps:

0:00 – Bumper
0:05 – Video Introduction
1:28 – What we are going to do to this telecaster
2:37 – Update from Chris Dellaporta from the shop
4:23 – Explanation of upcoming sound samples
5:59 – Blues Shuffle
6:44 – Funky Riff
7:55 – Chord Progression
9:31 – Chords, Low Gain Setting
10:58 – Chords, High Gain Setting
12:23 – Single Note Riff, High Gain Setting
13:46 – PJ
14:03 – PJ with TL Pedals Honker and Carl Martin Red Repeat
14:49 – Clean sounds with Carl Martin Red Repeat
16:00 – Final thoughts
16:45 – The pickups
19:16 – The Bigsby
22:38 – Flipping the electronics plate
24:00 – Would we recommend the pickups and bigsby?
24:35- Final wrapup

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