Baja Tele Mods

[raulduke]

I've owned a Baja Tele for a while, which never really did it for me.

Due to me already owning a Tele that covers my traditional Tele needs (my Eternal Guitars Betty), and not being able to sell the Baja for a decent amount, I decided to have some fun with it and turn it into an Esquire-ish beast.

Fitted a new Lil'59 bridge humbucker, new bridge, new pickguard, 500K Tone and Vol pots... and this thing sings. Also cures my GAS for now for buying any more guitars 

I'm loving it at the moment. Simple.... but very effective 

[Darkknigh_t]

I have the same tele nice mods btw. The guitar has a awesome neck but i dont like the bridge its pretty bad my strings tend to break at the bridge especially the g string. I love the neck pickup but the bridge is a bit iffy i dont know just not feeling a tele sound on the bridge :/

[raulduke]

Yeah I agree; thats why I fitted a new bridge and new bridge pickup 

I can do without the neck pickup as well to be honest. I can kind of see why the Esquire is such a popular guitar; one pickup and no messin 

[pickdropper]

Esquires are great guitars.  A buddy of mine has a real one from the 50's and I like getting some hands on time with that one whenever possible.

[Kipper4]

I had my no name ebay Tele Baja modded. It just opens up new sonic possibiltys. I love it. Great for testing pedals too.