The Blonde Tele

The next two guitars on the bench… two tele’s from the band Lakes. 

 I’d been in the studio for two days recording/engineering their next two singles and grabbed these two guitars for a full service and set up. The first is the Blonde Tele. 

The guitar played amazingly already, action was nice and the neck relief was just right! All that it needed was a clean up, a restring and the intonation set. 

So, first step, take off the strings and remove the loose dust and dirt before going to town on it with some Dunlop formula 65 cleaning spray to get the top nice and consistently clean. Once the top’s clean I worked up the fretboard to remove any dirt before tackling the frets. 

Finally, a set of Fender Bullet 10-52’s go on the clean guitar and its time to tune up, stretch in and intonate. Now, this guitar was not in a standard tune (Low to high – FACGCE) and it took a while to settle down. 

Once settled in it was good to go back in its case and I was good to start on the copper burst.