Lace Sensor fans and electronics-savy people, I need some input on what Sensor colors to pick.

[db82]

Some Electro-Harmonix pedals have hidden messages printed on the PCBs, placed on the screen during layout by various engineers - one of them is "listen to Cookies Galore." It was a band of one of the employees...

 

[Rick]

Didn't see anything in the strat book (though i was tired) but in the tele book they indicate two sets. One is composed of blue and gold for classic clean late 50s sound. For post 60s a hotter combo of silver and red. All depends what you're looking for... me ... likey silver red

 

[Rick]

Oh yeah ... mr g dies by strangulation by bond... his bodyguard gets sucked out an airplane window like a tube of human tooth paste, by bond ... bond and p--- Galore wind up in bed ... book ends.

 

[ThisIsHuhWow404]

Steely Dan fan eh?

For a very long time I believed the urban legend that Pearl Jam meant…a certain fluid with the consistency of jam that was pearl in color, and somewhere along the line the urban legend evolved to "Pearl Jam" being a Naked Lunch reference. It made for an interesting bit of trivia that Pearl Jam and Steely Dan got their names the same way.

Vedder says that’s not what the name means, and I’ve never read Naked Lunch (I think I saw the Cronenberg movie at some point) so I’m not sure if "Pearl Jam" is even in there.

 

[Spud]

For a very long time I believed the urban legend that Pearl Jam meant…a certain fluid with the consistency of jam that was pearl in color, and somewhere along the line the urban legend evolved to "Pearl Jam" being a Naked Lunch reference. It made for an interesting bit of trivia that Pearl Jam and Steely Dan got their names the same way.

Vedder says that’s not what the name means, and I’ve never read Naked Lunch (I think I saw the Cronenberg movie at some point) so I’m not sure if "Pearl Jam" is even in there.

It's not

 

[Hodgo]

This got off topic quickly… @ThisIsHuhWow404 did you decide on pickups yet?

 

[ThisIsHuhWow404]

This got off topic quickly… @ThisIsHuhWow404 did you decide on pickups yet?

Still torn between RedBlue/Silver/Emerald and RedBlue/HotGold/HotGold. Probably won’t start this build until December at the earliest. I still have my Meadowhawk I’m working on, and a Tele Custom build (which I might do in a V shape) before I get to this one.

 

[Hodgo]

Still torn between RedBlue/Silver/Emerald and RedBlue/HotGold/HotGold. Probably won’t start this build until December at the earliest. I still have my Meadowhawk I’m working on, and a Tele Custom build (which I might do in a V shape) before I get to this one.

Nice. I know you are chasing that neck/mid Strat sound… bear in mind on an old Strat, the pickups weren’t wound to different specifications, so the matching HotGolds may be a little more suited to your goals.

I’m excited to see how this progresses, I love the posts here that get down to the gnats a** details… even if most of it will wash out in a live mix

 

[ThisIsHuhWow404]

I’ve started to contemplate a bit of a different concept for this guitar. It’s something along the lines of this:

"What if Leo Fender never left Music Man to start G&L, and then somehow got ownership of Fender back in the 80s, and he merged Fender and Music Man into one company. At some point in the 90s, a bizarro world mishmash of the Music Man Stingray Guitar, Fender Strat Ultra and the Music Man Silhouette comes into existence. What would that look like?"

 

[Hodgo]

I’ve started to contemplate a bit of a different concept for this guitar. It’s something along the lines of this:

"What if Leo Fender never left Music Man to start G&L, and then somehow got ownership of Fender back in the 80s, and he merged Fender and Music Man into one company. At some point in the 90s, a bizarro world mishmash of the Music Man Stingray Guitar, Fender Strat Ultra and the Music Man Silhouette comes into existence. What would that look like?"

Hmmm…

Double cutaway, maybe beveled edges, potentially rear routed with a decorative pickguard. Leo was really into metal control plates for a long time (Tele/Jag/Mustang/JBass/Stingray) and was experimenting with active electronics quite a bit. Something like the Gotoh 510TS-LS1 in the bridge (2 point trem with locking saddles) might have been used.

Maybe find a bridge humbucker with large flat pole pieces that pairs with your choice of laces?

 

[Rick]

Do it!

 

[ThisIsHuhWow404]

Hmmm…

Double cutaway, maybe beveled edges, potentially rear routed with a decorative pickguard. Leo was really into metal control plates for a long time (Tele/Jag/Mustang/JBass/Stingray) and was experimenting with active electronics quite a bit. Something like the Gotoh 510TS-LS1 in the bridge (2 point trem with locking saddles) might have been used.

Maybe find a bridge humbucker with large flat pole pieces that pairs with your choice of laces?

I feel like the Dinkycaster body is already basically in line with what the 70s Stingray Guitar was (and to a much lesser extent the Music Man Sabre and G&L Nighthawk). If I lock in the Dinkycaster body with TBX pots and some Lace configuration, I can pretend in this alternate universe the Stingray overtook the Strat as Fender’s flagship model, and this guitar is what happened instead of the EBMM Silhouette and Fender Ultra Strat.

I hate to admit it because it sounds stupid on my part, but another reason I wanted Sensors is because they would look good and "flat" with a satin finish. Maybe get the black pickups, a matte black pickguard and black satin finish on the body. You can’t get more "blacked out" than that.

(Paging @aarontunes): or if by some miracle Warmoth does another run of Alpine White, and one of the bodies is a Dinkycaster body that’s top routed for HSH, a Gotoh 510, and three pot holes, then I can do a white version, but that’s probably a pipe dream.

 

[aarontunes]

(Paging @aarontunes): or if by some miracle Warmoth does another run of Alpine White, and one of the bodies is a Dinkycaster body that’s top routed for HSH, a Gotoh 510, and three pot holes, then I can do a white version, but that’s probably a pipe dream.

Not sure when/if another run of Alpine will be done. Despite the weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth, the Alpine White run did not sell well and some of the bodies had to be blown out.

As with many things in our post-internet age, it seems people didn't really want it. They just wanted to point out the injustice of it having been taken away. I suspect the same might prove true of many other colors we've discontinued: Mary Kaye White, Glow-in-the-dark, etc.

Butterscotch Blonde, OTOH.....

 

[Rick]

I had a butterscotch blonde tele with a butterscotch blonde neck, upgraded the pups to dimarzios, that was a good looking guitar, one of those Korean makes ... in fact as I write this, I realize I bought that at Manny's Music in NYC 40 years ago (my first electric guitar) ... oh well. I believe it's now owned (was sold) to a mercenary around 2000 ... I don't know if that's what they call it in other parts of the country, but 30 years ago it was a guy who was hired to play at a gig, not a regular part of the band.

 

[db82]

Single colors are not impossible for a person with little experience, but a decent amount of patience, to execute. You could also consider buying DIY-paint ready and taking it to someone local to do it for you - my friend has had multiple non auto things painted by a local auto body guy and that way he can get virtually whatever color he wants.

 

[ThisIsHuhWow404]

I also always really liked the Antique Olive with cream parts and black Pickguard look from the first run of the American Professional series. I can probably get that with Warmoth’s Olive Drab.

@aarontunes That’s odd. Olympic White and White Pearl look so ugly (to me) when put next to Alpine White. Maybe people just didn’t like the specs offered?

@db82 My Tele Custom build I’m doing before this one is going to be DIY. I’m gonna see how well that turns out before I decide if I want to do that again. After this Meadowhawk with direct mounting I’m currently doing, I’m pretty sure every partscaster I ever do with Humbuckers going forward is getting rings or a pickguard.

 

[Hodgo]

The new KNS body seems right up your alley…