Building a 1963 Telecaster - Overview of the Complete Process

Building a 1963 Lake Placid Blue Telecaster Overview of the Complete Process
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This section provides an overview of the complete process of building (assembling) the Telecaster.

I have tried to sequence the pictures in the order in which I completed each step. Some steps are not necessarily linear while others most definitley are e.g. - you need a bridge mounted and tuners installed to put on strings.

Building a 1963 Lake Placid Telecaster - Home

Warmoth Lake Placid Blue Telecaster Body with white binding. 100-Building-Telecaster-Overview.JPG	Warmoth Telecaster neck. 101-Building-Telecaster-Overview.JPG	The body and neck sitting in my home built workstation. 102-Building-Telecaster-Overview.JPG
Widening the tuner holes. 103-Building-Telecaster-Overview.JPG	Hand setting the first tuner bushing. 104-Building-Telecaster-Overview.JPG	Seating the tuner bushing. 105-Building-Telecaster-Overview.JPG
Aligning the tuners for attachment to the headstock. 106-Building-Telecaster-Overview.JPG	Protecting the neck finish. 107-Building-Telecaster-Overview.JPG	The first of the two screws that broke while attaching the tuning heads. 108-Building-Telecaster-Overview.JPG
My repair for the hole made by having to drill out the broken screw. 109-Building-Telecaster-Overview.JPG	A top view of the repair before trimming the wood fillers. 110-Building-Telecaster-Overview.JPG	The tuners finally installed. 111-Building-Telecaster-Overview.JPG
Wiring the pots, switch and pickup jack. 112-Building-Telecaster-Overview.JPG	Prepping the string ferrule holes. 113-Building-Telecaster-Overview.JPG	Prepping the string ferrule holes. 114-Building-Telecaster-Overview.JPG
Seating the string ferrules. 115-Building-Telecaster-Overview.JPG	Shielding the pickup and switch cavities. 116-Building-Telecaster-Overview.JPG	Installing the input jack. 117-Building-Telecaster-Overview.JPG
Close up of the wire ends and the input jack. 118-Building-Telecaster-Overview.JPG	Wire tips tinned. 119-Building-Telecaster-Overview.JPG	The wired input jack. 120-Building-Telecaster-Overview.JPG
The 4-way switch and volume and tone pots attached to the control plate and wired to the pickups. 121-Building-Telecaster-Overview.JPG	Another view of the wiring. 122-Building-Telecaster-Overview.JPG	The input jack in the input jack recess in the body. 123-Building-Telecaster-Overview.JPG
Inserting the input jack into the body. 124-Building-Telecaster-Overview.JPG	Inserting the input jack into the body - part 2. 125-Building-Telecaster-Overview.JPG	Inserting the input jack into the body - part 3. 126-Building-Telecaster-Overview.JPG
The input jack - test fit. 127-Building-Telecaster-Overview.JPG	The input jack outside of the body. 128-Building-Telecaster-Overview.JPG	The cover and cover nut on the input jack. 129-Building-Telecaster-Overview.JPG
Another view of the input jack installed. 130-Building-Telecaster-Overview.JPG	The knobs for the volume and tone pots. 131-Building-Telecaster-Overview.JPG	The reset tone and volume knobs. 132-Building-Telecaster-Overview.JPG
The "two string" test. 133-Building-Telecaster-Overview.JPG	Another view of the "two string" test. 134-Building-Telecaster-Overview.JPG