Stratocaster vs. Telecaster

Yeah, but G&L has had a similar thing on the Comanche and ASAT Z-3 for some time.

https://✧✧✧.shop✧✧✧.com/s/files/1/0916/0836/products/33098__1_3✧✧✧@3✧.progress✧✧✧.j✧✧?v=1571458285

https://media.rainpos.com/9068/1_z3_hnb_copy.jpg

https://images.reverb.com/image/upload/s--m1nn8TJe--/a_exif,c_limit,e_unsharp_mask:80,f_auto,fl_progressive,g_south,h_1600,q_80,w_1600/v1508194888/wjtit2dp9avmjd1oseux.jpg

always liked the look of those staggered pickups

i kinda love how G&L became Leo's 2.0 versions of Fender models

yeah some of them really work, some are super ugly to me tho

G&L lots of times look a bit "off"

but it's cool just from his thought process point of view, like what he perceived was wrong or could be improved on all these iconic guitars he made

i almost pulled the trigger on this a few months back... turns out my friend ended up buying it lol.
https://reverb.com/item/33527574-g-l-skyhawk-1984-natural-finish?show_sold=true

a few months = over a year ago

That's awesome, never seen that model before

all these iconic guitars he made

... not to take anything from the genius of CLF who turned a musical instrument into an engineering challenge, and ended up with the best of both!

it really is perfect that the guy who revolutionized how we make music was an engineer who couldn't play and whose favorite style of music was dead by 1955

that G&L espada is dope btw

I've thought about/wanted to get a cheapo Squier Tele for a long time, but something else always came along instead. Now I'm thinking I want to set a few bucks back for a while and pick up the Isbell Mexican Tele that just dropped. Hope it's not a super limited run and they're still around in 2022, because that's the one!

xxp yeah he was really just building radios and speakers which happened to pick up string vibrations instead of AM waves

and Johnny you'll always be able to pick up a used sunburst Fender Japan TL62B and put a black pickguard on it, those guitars are awesome.

I have a Squier thinline tele (70s vibe)

It is lovely and I like it

Now a part of the Telecaster* club

Refinished 1974
https://i.imgur.com/V4P65f6.jpg

oh wow that's gorgeous

I'm really wanting a tele bad lately. I'm getting my old strat back so I can finally sell it, at which point I will buy one.

that thing is sweet btw milo

thats a dream guitar right there milo

Damn, milo. Congrats!

how long ago was it refinished?

Just a few years, the refinisher reliced it. Apparently someone along the way had taken out the wide ranges in favor of EMGs (kept the originals luckily). The guy I got it from fixed the metal mistakes, had it refinished and refretted.

thats cool. looks great.

So cool, Milo. I always dug the look of those big-headstocked ‘70s Teles.

Some day I'd like to build a big-headstock Strat in Olympic White like Michael Karoli's.

Milo is that Inca Silver? Beautiful Deluxe. Would love to try those pickups.

Really like the color on that guitar, milo.

Cool guitar Milo

Yeah it's cool to see an old one that isn't natural/black/mocha. I looked at a bunch of those when I was looking to buy a guitar from 1974 (when I was born).

I feel like you don't see that style pickguard in white a lot - it's kind of an interesting look with the chrome screws and chrome pickups, something a little bit industrial or DIY about it in a cool way

Just a couple of cool clips I came across recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnQYoRYedF0

And this one I posted somewhere else, but don't want it to get lost in the shuffle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DpIUdFFr3w

so this is the 1985 Fender Japan Tele from upthread - what colour do you think it is?
https://i.imgur.com/vYmbFn0.jpg

that's right, it's Sonic Blue

https://i.imgur.com/LDdzmRA.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/iccTSDL.jpg

That Jerry Donahue is sick

I had a GE Smith Tele, those are some nice guitars. Held value too, sold it for more than I paid to some dude in France.

I think once you know what you like and if you got someone local that you can trust to not shaft you in the deal, parts guitars are the way to go. The modularity of Leo Fender's designs is really the most powerful part of what he did. I'm close to building another one and have been getting the parts together. It is going to be another Gibson/Fender hybrid with a Strat mahogany body and I have a Duncan '78 and a couple of P90s, all Alnico II. Output wise, they should hang together pretty well (fingers crossed).

Hopefully ending up looking like this...

http://www.ysw-tct.com/temp/img/20210522221547_2495138204_2197_1.png

I'm pretty spoiled, I got a friend that I have known for like 20+ years that has lived working as a luthier/guitar tech and has worked on a bunch of pro's and old vintage gear doing restoration and building stuff. RS Guitarworks is local to me and they have done work for boodles of people and do some amazing work, they are cutting the mahogany strat body for me.

Me, twenty minutes ago: why the hell would I watch a 20 minute video ge smith?

That was oddly compelling and soothing for some reason; getting sucked into watching it reminded me of when I somehow ended up watching joe walsh talk about setting up a les paul for 20 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7gMwE7phoM

Walsh is an oddly compelling personality. There's a part of me that is inclined to dislike him, but there is a goofy edge to his schtick that is disarming.

And one can quibble with the history - Les did not "invent" the LP. As the well-told story goes, he had approached Gibson with his solid-body prototype (on which which they passed). They named it after him for commercial reasons, but one could argue that Gibson was going to jump into solid bodies anyway, with or without Les.

Joe Walsh has always struck me as a guy just happy to be there, wherever "there" happens to be at any given moment.

don't think I've ever posted this, but kind of a kooky bass I found on Reverb once. Made by McGibney Guitars, this was a prototype unit.

Basically it's sort of a replica of a bass that never existed in the first place. It's short scale and overall it's like a Gretsch Electromatic Double Jet like Malcolm Young plays mixed with a Guild Starfire.

Pickup is a TV Jones, it's got a cut knob like a Gretsch and the switch is has that "mud" setting.

Strung with flatwounds, pretty great for thumpy 60s kinda sounds.

https://i.postimg.cc/BnDdGth5/PXL-20210521-191415166-MP.jpg

that's fun! what are the black things? thumb rests?

Dag, I am into that. My band's bass player (ordinarily a standup aficionado) has been getting into some really glossy Italian short-scale instruments, strung with flats, and they are weird and lush and unexpected

xpost - yeah - the right one is for old school thumb playing

Deluxe update: damn it sounds good, Wide Range Humbuckers are everything I hoped for, needs a new pickup switch unless I can make intermittent drop outs work for me.

nice, i've never heard those wide range humbuckers before