cool idea for someone with money - lesquire jr

[drew_half_empty]

alright, imagine this

mahogany tele body, warmoth short scale mahogany tele neck (or other, just my preference, but short scale for more bass), rear routed so no pickguard, bigsby, p-90 bridge (no neck pickup), no load 300k pots, and *drum roll* esquire wiring

seems like a pretty good idea to me, i never understood why lp jr's didn't have esquire type wiring, but it just dawned on me that you could make one with it :smack:

but i don't have the finances for another tele right now, so someone else; have at it

 

[big_black]

Re: cool idea for someone with money - lesquire jr

It sounds like the Tele I'm building- minus the Mahogany.

 

[danglybanger]

Re: cool idea for someone with money - lesquire jr

mahogany's always good.

Not a fan of bigsbys

Shorter scale? Gibson scale is best

not familiar with esquire wiring, but I'd miss a neck pup

 

[big_black]

Re: cool idea for someone with money - lesquire jr

It sounds like the Tele I'm building- minus the Mahogany.

Oh yeah, no Bigsby either. I wouldn't know what to do with one.

 

[CapoFirstFret]

Re: cool idea for someone with money - lesquire jr

 

[dogcityrocker]

Re: cool idea for someone with money - lesquire jr

actually, its kinda been done. Fender produced the "Tele Jr" for a year or two. Shorter scale, mahogony body, three-way toggle switch, and I believe it had P-90's.

Now Squire is making mahogony teles ("custom series", or something like that). They were in the last issue of MF

 

[drew_half_empty]

Re: cool idea for someone with money - lesquire jr

with esquire wiring you can disconnect the tone control, or have like a preset tone knob setting

bigsby would just kinda be my thing, i mean, not only do they look rockin as hell, but you can't beat them for vibrato

right now i don't have a neck pickup in my nashville, or a middle one

don't miss em

 

[Skarekrough]

Re: cool idea for someone with money - lesquire jr

It's almost everything I hate on an instrument I love in one convenient package......

*shivers*

 

[Gearjoneser]

Re: cool idea for someone with money - lesquire jr

Funny you mention it. I wanted to pull the trigger on a Fender Stratosonic, which is exactly what you describe, only a strat shape.

 

[Artie]

Re: cool idea for someone with money - lesquire jr

Funny you mention it. I wanted to pull the trigger on a Fender Stratosonic, which is exactly what you describe, only a strat shape.

Wow . . . gorgeous . . . love it.

 

[Empty Pockets]

Re: cool idea for someone with money - lesquire jr

Came THIS close to getting a Stratosonic in cherry red....

-X

 

[Hot _Grits]

Re: cool idea for someone with money - lesquire jr

actually, its kinda been done. Fender produced the "Tele Jr" for a year or two. Shorter scale, mahogony body, three-way toggle switch, and I believe it had P-90's.

Now Squire is making mahogony teles ("custom series", or something like that). They were in the last issue of MF

the tele jr is one of the best guitars I've ever played. I wish they'd continued it instead of the telesonic.

 

[tfb1990]

Re: cool idea for someone with money - lesquire jr

howd u make that pic?

 

[Quencho092]

Re: cool idea for someone with money - lesquire jr

It's almost everything I hate on an instrument I love in one convenient package......

*shivers*

Tell me about it. On all my guitars, the pickups that get 90% of my total jam time are the neck pickups. I just don't know how somebody could play with just a bridge single coil, you can't get the warm, gooey, bassy, singing sounds of a neck pickup with a barking bridge P90!!

 

[drew_half_empty]

Re: cool idea for someone with money - lesquire jr

the only guitar i've found with a usable neck pickup (unless you're playing through an old fender) is a strat, and that's because they're really really bright guitars

this is more of a rock oriented guitar

 

[Willis]

Re: cool idea for someone with money - lesquire jr

the only guitar i've found with a usable neck pickup (unless you're playing through an old fender) is a strat, and that's because they're really really bright guitars

I agree 100%.

 

[That90'sGuy]

Re: cool idea for someone with money - lesquire jr

I never quite understood the single bridge pup thing myself. I like the straight up rock and roll balls to the wall sound I get with a bridge p90, but the rhythm clean with two p90s blended and the jazz and blues neck p90 tone really make for an exceptional instrument. Only using a bridge p90 looks like a handicap to me especially when there are so many fantastic tones that dual p90 guitars can attain.

 

[Hot _Grits]

Re: cool idea for someone with money - lesquire jr

Funny you mention it. I wanted to pull the trigger on a Fender Stratosonic, which is exactly what you describe, only a strat shape.

Hey GJ, what's a good price for the two pickup version of the stratosonic?

 

[dani]

Re: cool idea for someone with money - lesquire jr

some may like the sheer simplicity of a single bridge p'up and most, the versatility dual p'ups offer.

instead of an esquire wiring with the bridge p90, how about installing a varitone switch like bb king's lucille or the blueshawk?

that will certainly result in a more versatile single p'up guitar.

 

[fusion101]

Re: cool idea for someone with money - lesquire jr

that guitar really sounds bad i mean it has 4 things i absolutely hate: short scale, p90's, bigsby, and one pickup guitars. Basically not my style