Taking inspiration from the phrase, “The Telecaster: The Plank That Made Good” please be upstanding for Blackguard No.3 – The dry pine was such good wood, with such great tonal characteristics I couldn’t let any go to waste – hence ‘The Plank’. The obvious choice of guitar to build with these offcuts was a Telecaster style. It just seemed the right thing to do. So here it is in all its ragged glory – Blackguard Three: A telecaster style guitar with handwound pickups and all the bite & twang you’d expect from a single coil tele style guitar.

Handcrafted Fenruary 2010.

Model Name: Blackguard Three
Model Number: 007
Built: Feb 2009
Body: Antique Pine
Neck: Maple
Fingerboard: Maple
No. of Frets: 21
Pickups: Creamery Classic Tele Bridge & Neck Single Coils
Magnets: Alnico 5
Controls: 1x Volume, 1 x Tone
Pickup Switching: 4 way
Position 1: Bridge
Position 2: Bridge & Neck in Parallel
Position 3: Neck
Position 4: Bridge & Neck in Series
Bridge: Wilkinson Stamped Steel
Machine Heads: Original Fender 2 Prong Schaller Style
Hardware: Chrome
Scratchplate: Custom black perspex
Scale Length: 25.5” (648 mm)
Width at Nut: 1.625″ (41.3 mm)
Strings: Fender Pure Nickel Wound Original 150s
String Gauges: Regular – 10, 13, 17, 26, 36, 46