211 – 140220 ZT-Tele – Zachary Handcrafted Guitars | Bass| Pedals | Strings

Inspiration

Here is the 3rd guitar in this ZT Telecaster series. Now we are moving on to 2 pickup Teles. This guitar was specifically created, as each one in this series of 5 ZT Teles, to use for my historic pickup builds. In this case its a Zachary wound +55 (late fifties) Tele bridge pickup, along with my new invention; the ZFG90 pickup for the neck position. The ZGF90 is very much a Fender style pickup but one with a P90 size and shape, to fit into a P90 cavity. I am very happy to come up with this pickup, since its very practical and I can use any specification I want to create any Fender-style pickup or even a Charlie Christian-style pickup in this configuration and it will fit a P90 cavity.

Again this guitar body is made of the super light-weight and soft Obeche wood and painted with a vintage Turquoise Nitro Lacquer paint, after which it is antiqued and distressed. The neck is also soft and light-weight Mahogany. Much of the distressing happens naturally while building the guitar from these soft woods.

This is another incredible and organic guitar, which plays and sounds like a dream. The action, as on all Zachary guitars, is very low. The Stainless Steel frets must be perfectly done for the guitar to play as well as it does. This guitar, as all Zachary guitars, is made for high performance modern playing, unlike vintage guitars. One of the characteristics to this end is the usual 24 fret (2 octave) neck. The hardware is carefully chosen to be historically correct and befitting of this style of guitar and to also to be light weight. Again the knobs are Aluminum (not boat-anchor heavy brass). Dig that heavy knurled custom-made volume knob, positioned for immediate access for volume swells. Who would put heavy hardware, tuners and knobs on such a light weight and responsive guitar? I know... a tinkerer would in a flash. Tinkerers do not know guitar history and have no sentience for nuance and professional standards. A tinkerer is NOT an artist. In short a tinkerer is ignorant. Since NOT all people are created equal, some have average or below average intelligence. Its not actually their fault. This is why they are so easily duped by those who can fake sincerity and pander to the psyche of the Normie. Thus, Normies constitute the masses and are used most often unwittingly to implement the Satanic course of the world.

So if you have at least average intelligence, you may have guessed that this is NOT your father's Telecaster.