That Glen Alum better watch the alumifumes, I think:
Custom Gold Bigsby Tele
This Tele has everything fully equiped with gold hardware and added LR Baggs Acoustic Bridge.
Specs are: Hollow Aluminium Body, with a strat like cut out in the back for player comfort, Jvp Neck, Wilkerson double lock tuners, Gold strap locks, Gold Chet Wire Arm, 3 x GSF 17ohm Strat configuration pickups, 5 way switching, Aluminium Pick Guard, Gold Controls, Volume, Blend (for blendind the acoustic brigde with the electric's) Tone,Gold pick guard screws, LR Baggs Active Acoustic Bridge which gives this guitar endless sound options (comming soon to this page). The Price is $4000.00 add $100.00 for a hard case.
It's one thing for the "luthier?" guy who built your guitar to not know that he's "equiped" it with Wilkinson tuners rather than Wilkersons, and those GSF pickups might be made by GFS; when I read that the blend is for "Blendind the acoustic brigde" I thought maybe he just had a real bad cold, but he's, umm, bragging, or advertising, that he put a "Jvp" neck on it? Jvp is not a secret factory under the Himalayas staffed by Tibetan monks on a centuries-long quest to out-Warmoth Warmoth. JVP's are one of those cheap random companies that make Strat-shaped boards to sit in the windows of mom-and-pop Thomas Organ franchises. "Well it looks just like that Jeemy Hendrick's guitar!" You could buy three complete JVP guitars for the price of a Warmoth neck, and this guy did cause he's using another neck on another one! You certainly wouldn't want to waste any extra money on Schallers or Duncans or a real neck, not when you're only asking $4000 for an "aluminium" guitar.
I have often though that after the easy stuff's done, it's the attention to detail that makes the difference. :icon_thumright:
On Gleamo, by using Lawrence double blade-single sized pickups & 500K pots, I pretty much went out of the way to make sure it won't sound like a wood guitar. The body has room to put some mushy old humbuckers in there if for some reason you wanted a tame, imitation-wood sound. :icon_scratch: I have always tried to use guitars that sound as different from each other, and I have long preferred starting with a clear bright sound and darkening it by rolling off some highs, mostly through speaker choice. As opposed to starting with mush and trying to fix it with a treble booster, as was (secretly) so common among the Clapton/Green/Bloomfield wannabees.
I do love raucousness done well, but you got to admit that when Leslie West or Paul Kossoff hit a full-up six-string chord ROWR, it was pretty much anybody's guess what the individual
notes actually were. Kind of like trying to count a charging lion's teeth or something. And I always though Pete Townsend sounded best when you couldn't hear him. Of course, he's not hearing much of anything these days.
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