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My favorite is a blonde 73 Tele Custom. But I have a pair of Tele partscasters that get most of the playing time. Along with a neck and tuners...
The Univibe is probably better suited to a 3 piece where there is no mix to cut through…
Ah yes, the good old days when a late 50s Standard cost as much as 4 GTOs…
The nicer the nice, the higher the price. Until you pass the line of diminishing returns…
I also have a Little 59, only it is in the bridge of a Telecaster. With the 250k pot I thought the pickup was an utter mistake. Fortunately, I...
I’d take it with a grain of salt. The Reverend pretty much only plays guitars that have been rebuilt by John Bolin. If Bolin touched it, the...
I like to wire the neck position to bypass the tone control on Telecasters…
It is also one of handful of times in the past 45 years I’ve heard live Stones where they didn’t sound like crap. On the average the X Pensive...
I had one on a ’68 for a while. The brass plate knocked a lot of life out of the tone. It still sounded like a Fender, but the guitar did not...
Those brass bridge plates are great if you don’t like the sound of a Telecaster. If you like the sound of a Telecaster, then you will not like...
I build partscasters to keep. If I have to resort to building partscasters because I don’t fit into Fender’s marketing research, then who is...
I guess it’s a good thing Crossroads and all of those other classics were recorded during Eric’s down and out phase after Jimi went to London…
Clapton’s work with Cream and The Blues Breakers cast a huge shadow. He single handedly ended the cute Vox and Rick/Gretsch thing and had kids...
In a nutshell my tone is trying to balance the sound of my amp, Marshall, and guitar, Fender or Gibson. I could on about Creamish lead tones, or...
I like good guitars, which is not necessarily the same thing as expensive guitars. I could make do with a lesser guitar, but I don’t want to…
Baseball necks, like pencil necks are both deal breakers for me…
I tend to bounce between Telecasters and Les Pauls. But as Gibson prices continue to climb it gets harder and harder to go home again…
He was a band member, and his playing served the song. Consequently, he never stood out like some of his contemporaries. Radio air play and...
In my guitar playing life I have played 4, maybe 5 great guitars. I never had more than a few minutes of playing time with any of them, but they...
A 73 Telecaster Custom, a pair of partscaster Teles, and a Classic 72 Thinline which is on the bubble. I’ll probably cut the Thinline loose to...
