Texas Specials and Different Necks

[Butch Snyder]

So, I was looking at my partscaster sitting in a stand next to my James Burton Standard. The partscaster has a neck from a Deluxe Nashville Tele. It's a rosewood fretboard and feels really nice. I decided to swap necks with the two guitars. The U-shaped maple neck worked very nicely on the partscaster. But the rosewood fretboard neck on the James Burton Std was very surprising. The James Burton Std comes with Custom Shop Texas Specials. I'm a fan of those pickups for Teles and Strats in general; but they never sounded all that good on the James Burton Std until the neck swap. For some reason, with an alder body/rosewood fretboard neck, they just came alive.


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[Butch Snyder]

Re: Texas Specials and Different Necks

The guitar looks stunning with its rosewood fretboard, Wilkinson bridge with compensated brass saddles, and Fender mint green pickguard. I'll post pics when I can.

 

[treyhaislip]

Re: Texas Specials and Different Necks

Sweet!


Any chance on pics?

 

[Butch Snyder]

Re: Texas Specials and Different Necks

Sweet!


Any chance on pics?

As soon as I can. I don't have any yet since the neck swap. I'll try to snap some tonight.

 

[treyhaislip]

Re: Texas Specials and Different Necks

As soon as I can. I don't have any yet since the neck swap. I'll try to snap some tonight.

No worries! Just always enjoy seeing pics!

Congrats on getting the tone nailed down!

 

[Butch Snyder]

Re: Texas Specials and Different Necks

No worries! Just always enjoy seeing pics!

Congrats on getting the tone nailed down!

Thanks! The James Burton Std fits the need for a fuller-sounding Tele that will go almost into P-90 land. Now, my partscaster is more of a chameleon of tone. It has a set of MIM Tex Mex Tele pickups that I love in that guitar. It's more of a Guthrie Trapp vibe; very twangy, but warm and smooth with a sensitive reaction to your right and left hand technique.

 

[AlexR]

Re: Texas Specials and Different Necks

Different wood is different. Its one of those things that reminds you every so often that its not just the pickups/electronic side that generates the tone in a guitar.