ericmeyer4
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Ash body, Maple/Ebony neck, Hard Ash body, 1 pup, Floating trem....
Ta DA!
Well I finally got my her back from being set up and I have to say that it plays and sounds fantastic!
Specs:
Headstock: 3x3 Sperzel Locking Tuners, Graphite Nut
Unfinished Maple/Ebony Neck: 22 Medium Jumbo Frets, Compound Fretboard, Standard Thin Back Shape.
Hard Ash Tele Body with Dakota Red Finish
Seymour Duncan Broadcaster Pickup with standard Esquire Wiring.
Switchcraft Out Jack, Fender CTS 250k pots, Fender USA 3 way switch, Orange Caps.
USA Bigsby B5 Tremolo with tele conversion kit.
Dunlop Strap Locks and Vintage Style Fender Strap.
I have to say that this is my best playing guitar! It sounds really good too! It is staying in tune really well even with some heavy trem action. The locking tuners and the graphite nut help a lot! I also had them put some 11's on there too. I normally play with 9's or 10's, but I haven't had a problem with the 11's because of the 3x3 head stock. It actually feels looser on the high strings than my guitar with the strat headstock and 10's which is great! LOL. Even the strap is great! I always get iritated because I put the strap locks on and down the road I decide I want to change the stap height and I have to take the locks off and it is such a PITA, but this one unhooks in the middles so I don't have to worry about that now! HA!
The dark setting isn't very usable yet. I need to fool around with it some more. I might be able to get a mutted jazz box-esq tone out of it if I experiment with my amp settins some.
The normal tele bridge pup sounds just like a tele, but with a little bit of the extreme highend and twang rolled off.
The bright setting is like the regular tele pup on say 11. Bright, but with just a bit of twang rolled off.
This guitar would work better for blues or rockabilly than country, but it still can do country. It just doesn't have quite the twang of a fixed bridge 3 saddle tele.
Over all I am extremely happy with this guitar!
Neck came from Warmoth. It had been sitting in my basement for about a year (a project long given up on.) It was originally a LP style head stock, but when I decided to use it for this guitar I started trimming it down. Vibrolux's snakehead esquire repilca put the idea in my head for using this headstock.
The body also came from Warmoth. I picked it up out of the showroom. I think they said it weighed in ~5lbs.
Now for your viewing pleasure. More pictures....
-Eric
Ta DA!
Well I finally got my her back from being set up and I have to say that it plays and sounds fantastic!
Specs:
Headstock: 3x3 Sperzel Locking Tuners, Graphite Nut
Unfinished Maple/Ebony Neck: 22 Medium Jumbo Frets, Compound Fretboard, Standard Thin Back Shape.
Hard Ash Tele Body with Dakota Red Finish
Seymour Duncan Broadcaster Pickup with standard Esquire Wiring.
Switchcraft Out Jack, Fender CTS 250k pots, Fender USA 3 way switch, Orange Caps.
USA Bigsby B5 Tremolo with tele conversion kit.
Dunlop Strap Locks and Vintage Style Fender Strap.
I have to say that this is my best playing guitar! It sounds really good too! It is staying in tune really well even with some heavy trem action. The locking tuners and the graphite nut help a lot! I also had them put some 11's on there too. I normally play with 9's or 10's, but I haven't had a problem with the 11's because of the 3x3 head stock. It actually feels looser on the high strings than my guitar with the strat headstock and 10's which is great! LOL. Even the strap is great! I always get iritated because I put the strap locks on and down the road I decide I want to change the stap height and I have to take the locks off and it is such a PITA, but this one unhooks in the middles so I don't have to worry about that now! HA!
The dark setting isn't very usable yet. I need to fool around with it some more. I might be able to get a mutted jazz box-esq tone out of it if I experiment with my amp settins some.
The normal tele bridge pup sounds just like a tele, but with a little bit of the extreme highend and twang rolled off.
The bright setting is like the regular tele pup on say 11. Bright, but with just a bit of twang rolled off.
This guitar would work better for blues or rockabilly than country, but it still can do country. It just doesn't have quite the twang of a fixed bridge 3 saddle tele.
Over all I am extremely happy with this guitar!
Neck came from Warmoth. It had been sitting in my basement for about a year (a project long given up on.) It was originally a LP style head stock, but when I decided to use it for this guitar I started trimming it down. Vibrolux's snakehead esquire repilca put the idea in my head for using this headstock.
The body also came from Warmoth. I picked it up out of the showroom. I think they said it weighed in ~5lbs.
Now for your viewing pleasure. More pictures....
-Eric
