If you are building or modifying a Nashville Tele:

LouisWu

Awright, I'm gonna try a little bit of conversational jump-starter. Pardon me if you've read this at any other board I frequent.

FYI if you're working on a Nash-Tele, or thinking about a pickguard from WD.

I started with a Standard Tele. I bought a Nashville Tele pickguard from WD online, and used it as a template to rout the hole for the center pickup.

The project gets finished, the guitar plays and sounds fine but the pkgd isn't what I wanted visually, when the assembled guitar is viewed as a whole.

SO, I find a W-B-W-Tortoise guard on eBay, the seller claims it is unscrewed fresh from a new MIM Nashville Telecaster. (of course, it's about one-fourth of what I paid at WD).

When the item arrives it seems obvious that the seller is sincere. This pkgd still has not only the clear protective film, but also all the other "Genuine Fender" and "Nashville Telecaster", "Use only Genuine Fender strings" blah, blah, blah....stickers - all in place. This must be a real Fender item.

I go to make the change-over only to find that my center pup rout is now in the wrong place.

The WD pickguard places the center pup a full quarter-inch farther "north" than the real Fender item.

I am disappointed. I'm not taking the bridge, etc, off this thing to rout again - not right now, anyway. I certainly don't feel like buying another pckgd of any sort from WD, either, but I will eventually choose one of those 2 evils.

Jerry T · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 7:26 am Post subject:

...makes your day, doesn't it Louis? I've got a growing collection of parts that don't fit what I intended them to fit when I bought them. You would think that they would have some sort of industry standard. The thing is Fender is just as bad, "Mexican" pickguards don't usually line up with "American" Fender items.
Jerry

LouisWu · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 12:12 pm Post subject:

Yea.

Well, I don't mind just drilling a couple of holes for mounting screws, and that's the only trouble I've had with Fender pckgds. The more-than-one style spacing for six-screw mount Stat bridges can be troubling at times for us part-swapping freaks.

I feel that this part was negligently misrepresented. It is sold specifically as a Nashville Telecaster pickguard... trademark names ...yet it does not meet spec. A seller wouldn't do well on eBay with such practices.

Someone on another board mentioned that he had heard WD stands for "wrong dimensions".

*nods head*

LouisWu · Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 2:26 pm Post subject:

*takes nap*

Jerry T · Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 7:39 am Post subject:

Louis, there has been a similar thread on the Telecaster site,[url]tdpri.com[/url]; have you checked it out? If not maybe you could add your two-cents to the discussion over there. You're not the only one that's ran into this problem I guess. Jerry

Jerry T · Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 7:42 am Post subject:

...oh yeah, sorry to wake you... Rolling Eyes

LouisWu · Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2003 7:06 am Post subject:

wow - thanks!

I didnt' even know about TDPRI. I'd seen mention of it but didnt' know what the acronym meant.

So now I registered but they're not sending me my confirmation nice and quick like many of these other same-under-the-hood boards have.

I'll check it out when I can.

Thanks again, and thanks for waking me, 'cause it's good to hear a voice. I'd been sitting here alone so long I zonked out.

Jerry T · Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2003 11:21 pm Post subject:

Hey, no problem. Very Happy

Jerry