Can you sculpt a small strat headstock ......

axisus · August 2013

to a tele shape? it kind of looks like you could?

Might want to convert a neck!

WezV · August 2013

yes

this is all of them

axisus · August 2013

Interesting ....... thanks for the confirmation.

imalone · August 2013

N.B. though the neck heels are normally also different shapes.

axisus · August 2013

I thought that strat and tele necks were interchangeable? Either way, I'm sure I could deal with that.

GuitarMonkey · August 2013

axisus said:

I thought that strat and tele necks were interchangeable? Either way, I'm sure I could deal with that.

You can put a Strat neck on a Tele body but there will be gaps at the corners due to the Strat's curved heel. You cannot put a Tele neck on a Strat body without a bit of woodwork to one or the other.

As for the headstock reshape, in my experience (I've done this a few times) the Strat headstock is not quite wide enough for the widest point of the Tele headstock. It's a small amount though and you can blend the curve to look fine.

axisus · August 2013

I'm thinking of putting a strat neck on a tele blank and I haven't cut the neck pocket yet so shouldn't be a problem! Thanks for the input all. Very early days of a project but I've seen a nice strat neck that I'm considering, although I'd prefer a tele headstock.

koneguitarist · August 2013

I cut an old Ibanez blazer to a tele shape for a mate.great neck used it myself on a couple of guitars, even lent it to Mick Taylor of Guitarist for a while when he broke his strat headstock [IMG]http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i278/bargoedboy/c77ff6493d6c7cc1c8b20f116f8379d7_zps817ced1e.jpg[/IMG]

axisus · August 2013

@koneguitarist: seems to be a dead link - page not found

koneguitarist · August 2013

Sorry will try again. [URL=http://s74.photobucket.com/user/bargoedboy/media/c77ff6493d6c7cc1c8b20f116f8379d7_zps817ced1e.jpg.html][IMG]http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i278/bargoedboy/c77ff6493d6c7cc1c8b20f116f8379d7_zps817ced1e.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

koneguitarist · August 2013

Sorry will try again. [URL=http://s74.photobucket.com/user/bargoedboy/media/c77ff6493d6c7cc1c8b20f116f8379d7_zps817ced1e.jpg.html][IMG]http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i278/bargoedboy/c77ff6493d6c7cc1c8b20f116f8379d7_zps817ced1e.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

Lixarto · August 2013

All you need is the direct link, no tags or anything.

octatonic · August 2013

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i278/bargoedboy/c77ff6493d6c7cc1c8b20f116f8379d7_zps817ced1e.jpg

koneguitarist · August 2013

Thanks, don't normally have any trouble, but just would not work for me for some reason. Cheers anyway. Ibanez blazer or road star neck on over the top modded tele, about 20years ago.

imalone · August 2013

axisus said:

I'm thinking of putting a strat neck on a tele blank and I haven't cut the neck pocket yet so shouldn't be a problem!

Cool, wasn't sure if you'd be dealing with a pre-cut body. Good luck with the build!

Andyjr1515 · August 2013

This is a standard strat headstock simply sawn across. This is on my main guitar and has put up with all sorts of bumps and scrapes - still plenty strong enough despite the loss of wood...

ICBM · August 2013

The loss of the wood on the lower side makes no difference to the strength at all - that part of the head isn't supporting the string tension.

These were also made by sawing off a standard (large CBS) headstock - oddly, it almost looks bigger!

http://musformation.com/pics/fender_swinger.jpg

suspiciousminds · September 2013

I've just built a tele from a kit which came with a generic unshaped headstock strat/tele neck with a separate tele headstock template.
In the end i shaped it like a strat instead of the tele because the template was very different around the nut area.

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