Lets See All Them Axes

[philo426]

Where did you get it?

 

[marqueemoon]

Never heard of that brand,boutique builder?

Depends on your definition I suppose. One person operation with a fair amount of CNC.

 

[marqueemoon]

Where did you get it?

I bought it from the builder. He lives on the other side of the state from me, so we met halfway and had dinner/beer.

 

[philo426]

Cool!How does it sound?I

 

[marqueemoon]

Cool!How does it sound?I

Pretty good! So far I've only played it a pretty low volume though. Looking forward to opening it up at practice once I get it back.

 

[valvenator]

Had a Fender Bandmaster Reverb for a while.
Honestly, sounded like crap with my Gibson humbucker Les Paul.
Borrowed a friends P90 LP. A match made in heaven. Sounded like a huge strat to me.
Biggest, fattest clean sound that would even make David Gilmour smile.

 

[shedshrine]

The guitar gaggle grouping.

The '77 tele deluxe came out of the factory with a clear coat finish but was obtained used in San Francisco spray painted sparkle blue around 1984. Few years later the original Seth Lover wide range pickups died or one did anyway (wish I'd held on to them) and it ended up with the classic JB in the bridge, 59 in the neck, added coil tap then compressor painted it one summer with extra car paint to a burgundy.

Sold it to a friend who got me a gig on an oil tanker with him one summer on our way to Singapore. Used the money to buy a new Charvel model 6 there. 20 years later he gave the tele back to me. He had moved to the coast and wasn't playing it as he preferred acoustic.

At this point It was rusted and the frets were completely shot. Pickguard had become brittle and warped so got a Warmoth replacement. Sanded the front and back down to the original clear coat and finally had SF Guitarworks refret it with steel frets last year. Here I am with it donning my usual electrical tape eyewear.

 

[philo426]

Why does it have a Strat neck?

 

[shedshrine]

Why does it have a Strat neck?

Per Wiki: ( I realize you just asked about the headstock, but it's all relevant..)

History
The popularity of heavy rock in the late 1960s led Fender to re-think its strategy of exclusively using single-coil pickups, as they were not perceived as being suitable for the thick sound and extended sustain favored by heavy rock guitarists using double-coil humbucking pickups. Consequently, Fender hired former Gibson employee Seth Lover, the inventor of the humbucker himself, to design a humbucking pickup for use in a number of Fender guitars. The result was a pickup known as the Wide Range humbucker, and it was used in a variety of different Fender models including the Deluxe, Custom, and Thinline Telecasters as well as a semi-hollowbody design called the Starcaster. The Deluxe, originally conceived as the top-of-the-line model in the Telecaster series, was the last of these to be released, in late 1972.

The "humbucker" Telecasters failed to draw potential customers away from competition like Gibson's Les Paul model, and the Telecaster Deluxe was discontinued in 1981. However, in 2004 Fender decided to re-issue the Deluxe, probably in response to the belated popularity of the original 1970s version.

Features
The Deluxe is unique amongst Telecasters in that the neck has an enlarged headstock – a very similar 21-fret neck was used by Fender Stratocaster models manufactured in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. The main difference between the Telecaster Deluxe and Stratocaster necks from this period is that the Telecaster Deluxe neck used medium jumbo frets while the Stratocaster necks featured narrower fretwire. The Telecaster's neck also features the "Micro-Tilt" angle adjustment device located in the heel of the neck, similar to other Fender models of the period.

The body shape was similar to other Telecaster models of the era, with one minor difference – a "belly cut" contour similar to that featured on all Stratocasters was added to the back of the guitar. The Deluxe also had the same "glitch" in its shape as the other Telecasters – a slightly less-pronounced curve where the upper bout meets the neck joint, compared to earlier (and later) Telecasters. This was attributed to more modern routing machines installed in the production line at the time. The 2004 re-issue differs from the original in that it does not have the 1970s "notchless" body style.

 

[philo426]

Thanks for clearing that up and providing the additional info!

 

[James Hart]

Spending some time with the guitars my father has been holding hostage since the mid 90s. Even though I'm a bassist, I gigged a couple summers with the Guild playing typical 60s-90s bar rock.

1968 Guild Starfire V

and a 1968 Framus Nashville 6 string Banjo

The Guild is as perfect as I remember it... the Framus is still playable, but I need to pull it apart to realign everything... and the head is shot. I had planned on replacing it with a coated head to make it more Banjo sounding

 

[James Hart]

Definitely a unique voice... I was a bassist 'slumming it' in a bar band on guitar. I used my bass amp and a Boss ME5 with this Guild as my main guitar and my 1961 Fender Jazzmaster as a back up. I got nothing but compliments on tones and gear choices.

I strung it with a new set of strings after cleaning it up in 1995 and had a spare set in the case before setting it up as a living room display for my Grandmother (it was my Grandfather's before he passed... he bought it from a divorcing friend when it and I was about a year old). My favorite strings... discontinued, reissued and discontinued again since I played it last!!!

Here is Pop in the early 80s playing with a Banjo group out of Glen Rock NJ

 

[arts]

So I'm guessing he wasn't the sort to leap up,kick over his chair,dime every knob on his amp and launch into I'm Going Home (Woodstock intro,if you please...) ?
Bet you could get some instant Alvin with that guitar

 

[Bill Ashton]

Beautiful Guild! I've had a late 90's Starfire-4 for a couple years, swapped a Guild acoustic for it. Sadly, not out of the case much, I seem to be too embedded in acoustic...

 

[James Hart]

So I'm guessing he wasn't the sort to leap up,kick over his chair,dime every knob on his amp and launch into I'm Going Home (Woodstock intro,if you please...) ?
Bet you could get some instant Alvin with that guitar

Pop played 2 kinds of geetar... County AND Western
Roy Clark and Chet Atkins were two of his favorites

He was a Grandpa already when all the hippies went to woodstock

Beautiful Guild! I've had a late 90's Starfire-4 for a couple years, swapped a Guild acoustic for it. Sadly, not out of the case much, I seem to be too embedded in acoustic...

Thanks... I need a decent acoustic. I've got a 70s Yamaha that plays good but the tone is horrible, one of these days it'll be high enough on the priority list.

 

[marqueemoon]

That Guild is awesome.

My birds tele got a pickup upgrade (Lindy Fralin Big Singles).

 

[Eywadude]

I've always wanted a 60's/70's Guild Starfire. They have a great voice all their own. Sort of a mix between a full-sized and a mini humbucker, but with a very focused, more upper-midrange sound with really good "cut" and projection, which makes them great for blues or blues rock. For many years, Buddy Guy's great tone came from a Starfire 4 I believe. I'd love to have a Starfire in my collection.

 

[James Hart]

here it is under regular house lights... the other shots were under a florescent. It has gotten some serious love this week... but I am putting it away in the basement again tomorrow. I'll be back in a 5 or 6 weeks for a few days to repair / rebuild the Framus and plan to have a long talk with my mother about getting this back without causing a new rift with the family

 

[CZ4A]

My first guitar, an Ibanez RGAR42MFMT.

 

[James Hart]

my latest purchase, should be here next week...

30" short scale P Bass clone for my Daughter's first bass