la cabronita

I tried one of those £3000 cabronita teles out today.....
wow, its everything i want, gretsch sounding, but in a beatable frame, no bigsby to be worrying about knocking out of tune, But £3000!!!!!!

So i sulked home knowing i will never afford one and went on the net and found that warmoth are now speccing la cabronita body clones, has anyone ever built a guitar using warmoth parts???

Ask Tavo to knock one up for you, he's the man for the job!

lordy...£3000!!! That's like over 5000 bucks! Those La Cabronitas are awesome, but at that price I would build one with the up most premium parts that USACG or Warmoth has to offer...and still, I might have enough to get a TV Jones Model 10!

Or I would hand pick a Historic 56 or 57 Goldtop!

Yes, TV could knock one out for you for sure. He has/had a gem of a tele with a supertron in the bridge and a t-armond hidden in the neck position in a beauty of a sonic blue!

Guitarmaniac wrote:

Ask Tavo to knock one up for you, he's the man for the job!

Only problem is I would wanna pay him what the true value of such an awesome sounding guitar would be and I really can't afford to and wanna do it as cheaply as possible........
Hence why I'm thinking warmoth body, cheap as possible fender neck of ebay and beg/steal the other parts to finish

Warmoth is a standard I know but there are so many other guys both on this side of the pond and yours building SUPERIOR telecaster bodies and parts. I use ruttersguitars.com for my la cabronita builds. The last two are both sugarpine bodies and man they sound so awesome with tvjones pickups! I encourage you to get ahold of marc rutters, his tolerances are so tight, its unbelievable how well every part retro fits so perfectly.
He is a machinist but he is also an archivist of telecaster information. Also his hardware is near superior to glendale and callaham. Awesome cold rolled steel hardware.
right now my daphne blue tele has the colled rolled steel half bridge with an aluminum
saddle for the low E and A with solid brass on the other 4 strings.

here are the "el cabongs" i have built (sunbursts are fender road worn alder bodies massaged by me. the thin nitro shot bodies i sand the finish down even thinner and
those are stamped steel fender bridges I modified. these were prior to finding ruttersguitars.com for the magical hardware.



this one below is now owned by roadjunkie

please dont ever post a photo of that blue one again........
its exactly what i would be aiming for and my poor heart cant take it ;-)
Im guessing each body is on a case by case basis but how much roughly are we talking about for one of those rutters body

the blue is great! I've always thought that a sonic/daphne blue esquire were great looking with the maple board. I think a shoreline gold with a rosewood slab or maple board would be killer as well.

I'm sure it'd spin circles again and again...then some more comared to my Am. Series deluxe tele. I may have to check out rutters stuff, If it's better than Glendale, then that is great. the glendale bridge and saddles brought my tele to life. Now pickups on the other hand....not much I can do in the way of those with the current tele!

chunkymac wrote:

please dont ever post a photo of that blue one again........
its exactly what i would be aiming for and my poor heart cant take it ;-)
Im guessing each body is on a case by case basis but how much roughly are we talking about for one of those rutters body

so I should not post this one again right?


(headstock logo w/ be updated with my new "El Cabong" logo)



hidden neck pickup/rear routed


marc's bodies are really affordable!! This one cost a bit more because I spec'd
"closet classic" relic paint so if you look close up the entire finish is crazed. so its all crackled
like 50+ year old lacquer. I'll go try to get a better picture of it, hard with my crap camera.
The neck he made for me is birdseye maple and quite sexy feeling. bi-radius and all

hate to say it but I'm selling the daphne blue one as I really really really want a hollow tele or jet

wish my tele was hollow now

I feel like that Blue one and the t-armond loaded knotty pine are right on par looks wise with something coming out of Creston Guitars shop. I haven't played a Creston, but his customer list is pretty darn respectful!

just out of pure curiosity how much are you asking for the blue one, its amazing

chunkymac wrote:

just out of pure curiosity how much are you asking for the blue one, its amazing

$900. I've got so much labor into it but the back route of the control cavity was a bit thin at
the volume knob and the paint chip'd out. reinforced now of course but that makes it a blem
which is redundant on a relic finish I know. ps. neck pocket is now empty. the tvjones
neck pickup wasnt strong enough. I've got a hidden pickup in my strat body that is about
3 times more powerful than a regular humbucker (fastrack II by dimarzio) and it would need
a monster bucker inside to do it justice. I bet a nice seymour or tvjones dynasonic would be
cool in it, top mounted of course

wow that is a great price.
i only wish i had the money

that's a crazy price! Less than what I paid for my tele off of the shelf, before a pickup and bridge/saddle swap.

If I wasn't in the mind-set of something else and didn't need to get something nice to wear...

May have to ask tavo to set me up a payment plan ;-)

chunkymac wrote:

May have to ask tavo to set me up a payment plan ;-)

how bout you take #00 Blondeshell and I throw in the body for $600

I wish I could my friend but I'm just about talking the boss into letting me have another guitar, but another amp as well!!!! Me and the dog would have our bags packed before those beauts landed on this island, saying that it doesn't sound like too bad of an idea. Mortgage and bill free living back with the parents and a grand a month to spend on gear mmmmmm

tvthewiredturtle wrote:

chunkymac wrote:

May have to ask tavo to set me up a payment plan ;-)

how bout you take #00 Blondeshell and I throw in the body for $600

that's a score in the waiting!

If only I hadn't bought the marsh a few months ago I woulda snapped that offer without a second though

tvthewiredturtle wrote:

chunkymac wrote:

May have to ask tavo to set me up a payment plan ;-)

how bout you take #00 Blondeshell and I throw in the body for $600

Hang on did i not read that properly?????
Are you offering blondshell #00 and the body for $600???

chunkymac wrote:

tvthewiredturtle wrote:

chunkymac wrote:

May have to ask tavo to set me up a payment plan ;-)

how bout you take #00 Blondeshell and I throw in the body for $600

Hang on did i not read that properly?????
Are you offering blondshell #00 and the body for $600???

the amp is $1850 ..its the first one made w/ a custom alum chassis where the
production models have steel. This also has NOS allen bradley carbon comp
resistors hand picked for each spot, the production model uses
carbon film. While there is virtually no audible difference between the two,
this one is obviously above the call of duty so its $200 more
than the standard model.
the body is $600

i thought that would be the case. will have to keep saving

chunkymac wrote:

i thought that would be the case. will have to keep saving

I assume you've heard the news about fender custom shop building a guitar in which
the name got them in trouble.. "the telemaster" is owned by some hobby store.
guitars are kind cool though.

tvthewiredturtle wrote:

chunkymac wrote:

i thought that would be the case. will have to keep saving

I assume you've heard the news about fender custom shop building a guitar in which
the name got them in trouble.. "the telemaster" is owned by some hobby store.
guitars are kind cool though.

That's the awesomest lookin' Fender I've seen in ages...! But why didn't they just call it a "Jazzquire"? It's really an Esquire in a JazzMaster body, isn't it...?

tvthewiredturtle wrote:

chunkymac wrote:

tvthewiredturtle wrote:

chunkymac wrote:

May have to ask tavo to set me up a payment plan ;-)

how bout you take #00 Blondeshell and I throw in the body for $600

Hang on did i not read that properly?????
Are you offering blondshell #00 and the body for $600???

the amp is $1850 ..its the first one made w/ a custom alum chassis where the
production models have steel. This also has NOS allen bradley carbon comp
resistors hand picked for each spot, the production model uses
carbon film. While there is virtually no audible difference between the two,
this one is obviously above the call of duty so its $200 more
than the standard model.
the body is $600

Man, I snoozed on the intro price?? if there is no audible difference, I'll take the carbon films and not have to worry about too much drifting over the years from the carbon comps...just as long as the sound and feel is still vintage!