Jonesie

I think the neck was about $170 from warmoth plus $10 for the Danish oil I finished it with. Check and see what warmoth has in stock.

Im totally with you!, it would be bad ass, you'll just have to get one built.

sounds great looks great to and the guys got taste (so.central rain)

Yeah, that's my guitar.

I've actually changed the body since then to a lighter (and better sounding) MIM Tele body. Changed the pickups too. Pretty much all that's left is the Bridge and the neck.

Here's a really awful picture of it in its current state. (The guitar is Midnight Blue, not Black as it looks...)

It has a MIM standard Neck pickup, and a 60's Classic bridge pickup. The GFS Lipstick bridge pickup was REALLY tinny sounding, especially through Fenders.

However, the actual modding of the Tele to make it a 12-string didn't take much at all. It's just a Warmoth neck (which bolts right on no problem), then I took a "vintage style" 6-saddle Telecaster bridge and replaced the saddles with saddles from a Jazzmaster/Jaguar. Then I drilled an extra hole on the treble side of the high e-string on the bridge to fit the octave string. The bridge already comes with holes for either string through or topload stringing, so this made it really easy.

Honestly, the intonation is pretty great. 3-saddles works great for a 6 string tele, so why shouldn't 6-saddles for a 12-string tele? Also figure, you're playing a 12 string, you're probably not soloing too much up on the higher frets, the intonation will be more than okay.

The only other thing I did to the guitar was to add a bar-style string retainer on the headstock so the strings wouldn't pop out of the nut. It only takes a very small amount of work to get a 12-string Tele up and running.

The action is fantastic. Nice and low all the way up the neck.

I'm gonna make a new demo soon with the new body and my new amp ('65 Ampeg Gemini II), should be much better quality than that last one too, I actually got some mics since then.

If anyone has any questions about the guitar, I'll be more than happy to answer them too.

(and thanks for the love for So. Central Rain, I mean, is there a better 12 string riff to demo with? But I also had to throw in Zeppelin...pretty sure it's required...)

I'd love to see either The Minus 5 / Young Fresh Fellows.

Hell, most anything with Scott McCaughney would be cool. Also think a band like The Bad Plus would do really well there.

Great show. Not as good as the pavillion last year though, I think.

I was on the lawn, on nels side. And the people who worked their were assholes. They wouldn't let us stand on the lawn.

So we were forced to sit until kidsmoke, where we just rushed and made it to about the third row.

Side with the Seeds should definitly be one of the songs.

For the second song I'm not sure.

It'd be nice if they went into the back catalog a little bit for it, maybe pulling out "I Am Trying To Break Your Heart"

Well why bother wasting the postage and the CD's when it can be done online for free, and immedately.

any chance you could upload it to a site, and I'll upload one I have?

I have a bunch of Radiohead, Ben Folds, Living End, Hold Steady, Ted Leo, Death Cab For Cutie, Weezer. . .

I tried Bit Tornado and a bunch of others in the past.

couldn't somebody just help me out on this one?

why, are you blocked or something?

For some reason at my house, whenever I've tried to use bit torrent, it always just froze up and didn't download.

I'm a mac user, and I use iTunes, so my options are a lot more limited. And as I said before, I can't dl torrents.

Could anybody upload the boot of the show to a site like yousendit? I can't download torrents, and I also can't play FLAC files...

thanks a lot.