rockabilly69 Posted December 30, 2023 Posted December 30, 2023 Just finished setting this Esquire up and recorded this song with this pickup, the Cavalier Nocaster HolyGrail. The Esquire has a 3 way switch and it's set for the cocked wah position. Man this pickup sings. Check it out...
bolero Posted December 31, 2023 Posted December 31, 2023 Sounds great!! Nice pickguard....and lets see some more of that flamy neck? 😎
rockabilly69 Posted January 1 Author Posted January 1 8 hours ago, bolero said: Sounds great!! Nice pickguard....and lets see some more of that flamy neck? 😎
TalismanRich Posted January 1 Posted January 1 The look of that neck is just.... as Pressure would say.... FAB! You've really gotten heavily into the Tele types lately. What is this, #6? 7?
rockabilly69 Posted January 1 Author Posted January 1 The look of that neck is just.... as Pressure would say.... FAB! You've really gotten heavily into the Tele types lately. What is this, #6? 7? Rich, I built or rebuilt (swapped necks and pickups etc) 7. I currently have 5 Teles that I built, 2 Fiesta Red Teles, Gold Esquire, Brown Tele Deluxe and Purple Tele with humbucker and single coil. I also built an Esquire with a British racing green body, but I tore that one apart, because I wanted the pickup for a different build, and the neck for another one, I gave the green body to a friend. I also have a reverse headstock Tele that a friend gave me and custom shop that I've had for a long time. The reason I'm doing this is because I've always like the idea of Telecasters, but never really bonded with one as a full time guitar. Now though, through my experimentation, the gold Esquire and purple Telecaster have turned out to be monster guitars that I could use as full-time giggers. Two things that I've learned is that I like hot bridge pickups, and 9.5 radius fingerboards with slightly bigger frets, The other Teles are all fine guitars since I've tweaked them but the gold and purple have the magic... This one has American Professional neck with Rosewood fingerboard (9.5 radius), and Fender locking tuners, Guitarfetish Poplar Body, Decoboom pickguard, American Professional bridge, Nocaster Holy Grail Pickup, Eldred Mod wiring This one has Allen Eden Paulownia body, Decoboom pickguard, Ebay seller from China Flame maple neck with rosewood fingerboard (9.5 to 12 compound radius) Fender 52 reissue bridge, Tyson Precious and Grace neck pickup, Billy Gibbons BG1400 bridge pickup,
rockabilly69 Posted January 1 Author Posted January 1 6 hours ago, TalismanRich said: The look of that neck is just.... as Pressure would say.... FAB! You've really gotten heavily into the Tele types lately. What is this, #6? 7? these are the others... Guitarfetish Fiesta Red Poplar body, Decoboom pickguard, Fender Roasted Maple neck with Pao Ferro Fingerboard (9.5 radius), DiMarzio Twang King pickups, 4 way reverse switch with series wiring on the 4th position. Fiesta Red Warmorth Poplar Body, Decoboom Pickguard, Wolftone Cub and B*tch pickups, Fender Limited Edition painted headstock flame Maple neck with Ebony fingerboard and locking Fender tuners (9.5 radius), Halon bridge. This one has had two necks. The first one from the factory was warped, but I bought it used so I had to replace it myself. 12 degree radius. The pickups are DiMarzio PAF in the neck and Super Distortion in the bridge (splittable via the volume pot). So this one was more of a factory guitar that I modded than a build. I modded to relive the past as I had one like this when I was 18 years old and it was my first real gigger.
RJLII Posted January 4 Posted January 4 I really like this one. I'd love to see it with a RW Fingerboard. I'll bet it's pretty punchy.
rockabilly69 Posted January 8 Author Posted January 8 On 1/4/2024 at 5:14 AM, RJLII said: I really like this one. I'd love to see it with a RW Fingerboard. I'll bet it's pretty punchy. I think it would be fun to try a Rosewood neck on a guitar like this, but as I said in my description above, I'm reliving the past as I built this guitar to be EXACTLY like the one I played when I was 18 years old in my first real working band. And in this particular guitar maple may be the better choice as the brighter tone of the neck may help with the slightly thicker so unding pickups. Who knows, sometimes it's just a crapshoot! 10 hours ago, bolero said: Stellar bunch of gtrs Thanks C!
bolero Posted January 8 Posted January 8 I've said it before, and I'll say it again: if that pickup had any more balls, it'd have hair on it!
rockabilly69 Posted January 10 Author Posted January 10 On 1/8/2024 at 4:08 PM, bolero said: I've said it before, and I'll say it again: if that pickup had any more balls, it'd have hair on it! so that's what they mean by "put a little hair on that"
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.