Does anyone here have a guitar made by T-Guitar?

[rshanks]

Hi - I'm just wondering if anyone here has purchased a T-Guitar. It's probably a question directed more towards Australian people since they're located there, but I was hoping to get one of their guitars and have it shipped to the US. I've been looking to get a new Telecaster for a while but I decided to look around for models from other companies this time just to see what's out there, and I came across an article that had pictures of the T-Guitars as they were building them and they had a really nice thinline with plaid fabric on the hollowed out insides (the pictures are in the link). It's not the same as a tele body, but it looks very similar to me - something like if a tele and a 335 banged.

This is another picture of the guitar I'm talking about from their website (but you can't see the cloth in this one).


Anyone here know about these things?
I'm hesitant to email them before getting some first-hand knowledge from anyone who owns one of their guitars first, so any info would be really great!

 

[AlexR]

Re: Does anyone here have a guitar made by T-Guitar?

Read the interview...looked at pics.

From my own knowledge of building the guy has his head on right, and deals only in reality and is avoiding the mystical voodoo that seems to surround construction in guitars. His builds also look interesting.

My only hesitation comes in that, being a Melbournian myself, I know the added price of any/all of the guitar components by comparison to the US. Plus the typical shipping cost for international packages......be prepared for a shock!!!
Its much better price-wise for a luthier to make something in the US and then ship it locally. In fact I have often found I get guitar/luthier wood cheaper by buying it overseas and shipping it internationally than by buying from local supply shops.
So unless there is something special about that builder you just have to have, then a local custom guitar will be a lot cheaper.

For some unrelated guitar custom build porn from Melbourne too, check out http://www.bluestoneguitars.com/html/HOME.html

 

[rshanks]

Re: Does anyone here have a guitar made by T-Guitar?

I suppose I could show a luthier the pictures and see if he can build it, but I'm still interested to know about the pickups since they're hand-wound. Maybe I could have them shipped for cheaper than the whole guitar and have the luthier include them too...then I'd have a knockoff T-Guitar :bigok:

 

[AlexR]

Re: Does anyone here have a guitar made by T-Guitar?

Well, a lot of people wind pickups. The caveat with 'hand winding' is that the only person that actually winds the wire around the bobbin not using any machinery assistance I know of is Zhangbucker. Typically the process of hand guiding wire onto a bobbin rotated by a machine is what 99% of winders are talking about.
Then there is 'hand wound' being a term for 'fully machine wound but done in-house'.
Either way this is not to slight them.....just to make you aware of some of the uses of the word. There are MANY winders of pickups that have come out only in the last few years that have topped established winders of the same thing.

 

[Zhangliqun]

Re: Does anyone here have a guitar made by T-Guitar?

Handwound means hand-guided, meaning the thumb and index finger guide the wire's traverse back and forth on the machine-turned bobbin.