(another) what's your current GAS? (SS and non-SS

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 4:58 pm

wwrrss wrote:

Is that just a fender blender clone?

Kurbis · Post by **Kurbis** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 10:25 pm

And a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe of some kind.

JesusRancher · Post by **JesusRancher** » Wed Oct 12, 2011 9:45 pm

I want a la cabronita

Realistically though I want one of these

with one of these installed

Will get me pretty close to a la cabronita.

Silenus · Post by **Silenus** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 8:01 am

^I have such a Classic Vibe Tele turned into an Esquire
and really like it...low cost and a great player

wwrrss · Post by **wwrrss** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 8:05 am

endsjustifymeans wrote:
wwrrss wrote:
Is that just a fender blender clone?

Nope, it's a direct clone of Iain from Part Chimps really old Fender Blender that's fucked up and doesn't really sound the same.

Rox · Post by **Rox** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 8:30 am

Hmmm. Realistic GAS.....

The Schecter Corsair 12 string...

A Schecter Ultra VI

A Pawnshop Mustang......Red .. Switch in a tort pickguard , Duncan Phatcats and a Tune-o-matic with Bigsby.... That would just make it uber sexy.....

Amp wise ? I have my GAS amps ... Maybe a Vox AC30.. Or a Night Train...

NickS · Post by **NickS** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 12:45 pm

Rox wrote:Hmmm. Realistic GAS.....

The Schecter Corsair 12 string...

A Schecter Ultra VI

Fixt

bradzeera · Post by **bradzeera** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 12:57 pm

Must have jazzuar

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 1:42 pm

Silenus wrote:^I have such a Classic Vibe Tele turned into an Esquire
and really like it...low cost and a great player

Been debating on doing this to my CV for a while since I don't really use the neck pup... would you say that was a simple mod?
I like the look of only one pickup on them.

Silenus · Post by **Silenus** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 2:24 pm

^Very simple
I just replaced the pickguard and used this diagram.
Mind this diagram is with a CRL switch !
(also used an Orange Drop 0.47 cap)

brainfur · Post by **brainfur** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 2:35 pm

Silenus wrote:^I have such a Classic Vibe Tele turned into an Esquire
and really like it...low cost and a great player

this is exactly what I'm dying for...

I went shoppin for donor teles the other day and hated the necks on everything I touched. gonna look for a mim tele that feels "broken-in"

Justin J · Post by **Justin J** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 5:49 pm

i keep telling myself there's no way i could possibly afford a santa cruz vintage artist. i still try and come up with ways to save up the money.
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dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 6:12 pm

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 7:00 pm

Silenus wrote:^Very simple
I just replaced the pickguard and used this diagram.
Mind this diagram is with a CRL switch !
(also used an Orange Drop 0.47 cap)

Is that the standard wiring for an Esquire? Been meaning to do mine as the neck and in between positions do nothing.

George · Post by **George** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 9:26 pm

Just had an idea while writing an essay. ..

Imagine it with a Mustang slab body, 25.5" and one of those GFS hofner tremolos

With the control plate and pickguard like the Snakehead Tele

Need to photoshop it properly

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 9:40 pm

Fran wrote:Is that the standard wiring for an Esquire?

There's a lot of ways to do it now, lots of possibilities on that switch.

Teles and Esquires originally had capacitors or resistors to darken the tone in one position, like the rhythm circuit on a jazzmaster/jaguar. It was for the neck pickup on Teles. AV Teles come wired like this as standard with extra bits and a schematic in the case to change it if you like, just as the AV Strats come with a 3-way switch stock and a 5-way supplied in the case.
This changed on Teles in '67 to give the familiar neck-middle-bridge setup (previously there had been no middle position, just a dark neck setting where the tone control doesn't work, then neck and bridge settings where it works normally... though the earliest teles, the 'nocasters', had a blend pot instead of a tone knob to mix both pickups in, which was much more useful and I always wonder why they didn't stick with that).
Esquires are kinda open to interpretation I guess. I probably wouldn't use the resistor thing as you could just roll off the tone knob, I guess when people comped more jazz chords in the background it was more useful to jump between fully off and wide open like that at the flick of a switch.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Fri Oct 28, 2011 5:44 am

paul_ wrote:
Fran wrote:Is that the standard wiring for an Esquire?
There's a lot of ways to do it now, lots of possibilities on that switch.

Teles and Esquires originally had capacitors or resistors to darken the tone in one position, like the rhythm circuit on a jazzmaster/jaguar. It was for the neck pickup on Teles. AV Teles come wired like this as standard with extra bits and a schematic in the case to change it if you like, just as the AV Strats come with a 3-way switch stock and a 5-way supplied in the case.
This changed on Teles in '67 to give the familiar neck-middle-bridge setup (previously there had been no middle position, just a dark neck setting where the tone control doesn't work, then neck and bridge settings where it works normally... though the earliest teles, the 'nocasters', had a blend pot instead of a tone knob to mix both pickups in, which was much more useful and I always wonder why they didn't stick with that).
Esquires are kinda open to interpretation I guess. I probably wouldn't use the resistor thing as you could just roll off the tone knob, I guess when people comped more jazz chords in the background it was more useful to jump between fully off and wide open like that at the flick of a switch.

Thanks. I watched some demos a while ago of the originals and like you said, could not see much point in using the caps. Its probably more useful as a killswitch to me but then i think surely i should do something with it.

taylornutt · Post by **taylornutt** » Fri Oct 28, 2011 1:08 pm

I think I want to build one of these kits from Guitar Kits USA. You can attach any neck you want including shortscale Fender necks

, though I might look for an Airline neck.

http://www.guitarkitsusa.com/

pumpkin · Post by **pumpkin** » Fri Oct 28, 2011 2:41 pm

This... have to buy my Dad one first though, for Christmas. It's a Gibson Les Paul Studio 50s tribute with a points and a bigsby

pumpkin · Post by **pumpkin** » Fri Oct 28, 2011 2:48 pm

w/ pig tail

'63 Tube Reverb