GAS Alert!!!!

That is a nice piece. Got a link to it? Somehow I'm not seeing it in The Showcase. Maybe is sold already. Wouldn't surprise me. Don't see figure like that very often.
 
Gas alert was about to slip off the second page. Can't allow that to happen. This neck is in the showcase now, but I'm not giving the number  :icon_biggrin:

Got to see one of my heros recently. One of the three or four guys that inspired me to pickup guitar in the first place, and has probably shaped my idea of music more than any other one person. And I was kinda shocked to watch him play almost nothing but Tele's all night. But wait.. no! It can't be!  Ok, I guess I might have been mistaken.

The builder is quite dangerous - I went tonight just playing around, but this thing talks to me.
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I like the thinlines - the pickguard has grown on me with a slight modification (need to check the route for coverage though - I guess you can always rear route and add the pickguard.)
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I understand your reticence about Teles - I absolutely hated them for many years - but there's a reason that design has had 60+ years of staying power: they're not bad.

Faint praise, I know. But, you'll find that those who accept them become such strong adherents that they'll beat you to death with theirs before they'll let you take them away. It's kinda like a "leap of faith" to take one on, but once you do, you want everybody to join your side.

It's a comfortable instrument that won't fight with you, won't get in your way, and is malleable enough to suit you needs regardless of what they are. So, if you can find it in you to forgive its chubby cheeks and hard lines in order to get the juice, you'll be a happy camper.

 
Cagey said:
I understand your reticence about Teles - I absolutely hated them for many years - but there's a reason that design has had 60+ years of staying power: they're not bad.
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I had a similar epiphany a few weeks ago, while playing at a jam session at a friend's house.  One guy brought a beautiful Fender Telecaster which was nearly 60 years old, and it sounded like a dream.  I even got to play on it a bit, and I was impressed.
 
I think that's where a lot of Tele players come from - actually giving one a chance against their better judgment. That becomes a tipping point, and before you know it they have one of their own. It's a helluva platform, in that it's doesn't get in your way and you can make it sound like anything you'd like. Brittle hillbilly to raucous rock - it's all available. Makes you wanna own a whole stable of them.
 
Cagey said:
I think that's where a lot of Tele players come from - actually giving one a chance against their better judgment. That becomes a tipping point, and before you know it they have one of their own. It's a helluva platform, in that it's doesn't get in your way and you can make it sound like anything you'd like. Brittle hillbilly to raucous rock - it's all available. Makes you wanna own a whole stable of them.
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YUP, heh-heh, and some people DO...
 
It has occurred to me too, that already being a lover of hardtail strats and hater of trems, that I'm really a lot closer to being a double cutaway three pickup tele than I am a strat.
 
I utterly hated Teles at first. In fact the only guitars I did like were Les Pauls and ESP Horizon-IIIs.
Then I saw some videos of Prince and Richie Sambora tearing up Teles, tried one myself and damn, now I've got four. My next build, once I'm done with my Jazzmaster, is going to be a Strat body but with a Thinline pickguard and a Tele bridge/pickup. I saw a Strat/Thinline hybrid that Fender's Japanese division put out a few years ago and it was gorgeous, but I also want an Esquire, so mixing the two...
 
I still can't get over the quilt on that carved-top. Just a phenomenal piece of nature.
 
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There's actually a swamp ash/spruce thinline in the showcase that would work for this body.
 
Ohh my godddd!!! This forum is the GAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have just buyed a guitar, and I think to next!!!  :confused4:
 
DangerousR6 said:
Great Ape said:
DAMN!! If that don't BOGGLE the brain!! Truly mind-bending!!
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It's pretty easy to do..
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This is on Gregg's LP..
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Doug, have you ever made  a guitar pick like this??  I think it would be cool.

PM me with a price...in brass.
 
http://www.warmoth.com/Showcase/ShowcaseItem.aspx?i=BP1353&Body=2&Bass=1&Path=Body


someone buy it so I can stop crying! I'm tempted to sell my soul for this one. :sad:
 
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