Guitar 17cm c/Cordas - Fender Tele Keith Richards

Fender Telecaster 1953
"Micawber"
Keith Richards (Rolling Stones)
 

This guitar is part of the "Iconic Rock Guitars" collection.

https://makerworld.com/collections/11905717

Printing – Quick and easy, no supports. The models in this collection were designed so that their details are visible at a layer height of 0.2 mm; however, if print time is not an issue, you can achieve better results with smaller layer heights. 

Assembly – To glue the neck to the body, you can use superglue; however, I recommend using a fusion adhesive, such as Revell or Tamiya, as there will be significant string tension. I usually allow 12 hours for the glue to dry and cure.

Stringing – This is the only slightly difficult part, but it's what truly sets this model apart from others. Be patient, and you will succeed. The strings are made from 0.5 mm fishing line, in the grayest color you can find.

- use a pin to ensure the holes through which the strings will pass are unobstructed, being careful with the nut, which is very fragile;

- cut a generous length of line and thread it through the nut, headstock, and bridge;

- flip the guitar and tie two simple, firm knots behind the headstock; trim the excess and melt the remaining tip with a lighter;

- now for the final knot, at the back of the bridge, where the string needs to be tightened; make a simple loop, stretch the string, and hold it taut with a small pointed tool placed inside the loop (see photo); then gradually close the loop until it lightly grips the tool before removing it and tying the knot; tie a second knot so it sits below the first knot; trim the excess and melt the remaining tip; done (I needed 3 or 4 attempts to get it right).

Stands – I used the stands from custom3dmodels, scaled to 115%.

link: https://makerworld.com/en/models/1242179-guitar-stand-guitar-miniatures-collection#profileId-1262924

Tags – I have provided a separate file for the plates with the guitarists' names.

History

(Marco Pala - whiplash.net)

Despite being a guitarist who always navigated between the worlds of Fenders and Gibsons, the yellow Telecaster (with a black pickguard) is the model that best suits Keith Richards. And the reason one of these is always in his setups is his favorite guitar, named "Micawber" (a name taken from a work by Charles Dickens, called "David Copperfield"). It is a 1953 Fender Telecaster that was given to him as a gift by Eric Clapton (him again) on Keith's 27th birthday, in December 1970. For about a year, Keith had been experimenting with alternative tunings on Telecasters (see "Honky Tonk Women"), and he eventually fell in love with his new guitar, which became his main instrument in the tuning that bore his name, an open G version without the low E string (meaning only 5 strings). Keith also made a modification to the guitar that later became a new standard for Telecasters: a 1950s Gibson PAF humbucker was installed in place of the traditional "lipstick" single-coil in the neck. Interestingly, to modify the natural tone of the PAF, making the sound less robust, Keith reversed the polarity of the pickup's magnet – a magnet bar that goes inside humbuckers – simply by flipping the bar, meaning he unconsciously performed the same "trick" that was in Peter Green/Gary Moore's guitar. Regarding the bridge pickup, there's much discussion about what it might be, but it's speculated to be a single-coil taken from an old Fender Esquire and rewound for higher resistance and output. The pickup selector is also not trivial: in position 1, we have the bridge pickup; in the middle, the neck pickup with the tone potentiometer's equalization activated; and in position 3, the neck pickup without equalization, passing the signal through a special capacitor. To this day, Keith tours and records with this guitar, despite owning replicas, in addition to other well-known Teles.