355 pickup placement?

[Woody Sound]

From another thread here, check out the neck pickup placement.

[ThatRhythmMan]

Look at the TOM placement and pickup spacing too. It’s a custom short scale.

Edit: custom, but not short scale.


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[jads57]

Actually it’s not a short scale,but it’s definitely a Custom Gibson. That’s Leon Rhodes from Texas Playboys fame. He wanted a brighter sound from his neck pickup,much like a 24 fret placement of the neck pickup. And instead of tweaking the pickup they moved it back towards the bridge.

Leon was quite a great guitarist along with many other older well know country guitarists. Hank Garland, Thumbs Carlisle, Phil Baugh, Jimmy Bryant..

[Doug B]

No, I'm pretty sure that picture is Roy Clark.

[ThatRhythmMan]

No, I'm pretty sure that picture is Roy Clark.

That’s Leon.


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[nevershouldhavesoldit]

I think it's Leon Rhodes too, mainly because of the tailpiece on that guitar. For those who don't know who Rhodes was, he was a Nashville legend. He was in Ernest Tubbs' Texas Troubadors for many years and a regular in the house band at the Grand Ol' Opry. Rhodes worked with Gibson for a while to develop a signature semi, and that was the tailpiece on it. I've never seen one on any other guitar. Here's a pic of him with one of the prototypes -



I've never seen one with the pickup location on the red one in the OP's post - but it wouldn't surprise me if that was one of the mods he tried. AFAIK, Gibson never put a Leon Rhodes model into production.

He and Clark looked a lot alike, but IIRC their hairlines and styles were different.

definitely Rhodes:



the Unknown Guitarist:



Roy Clark:

[ThatRhythmMan]

Oh, it’s definitely Leon Rhodes. It’s from the Gatemouth Brown video in the other post. I took that other screenshot. Here you can see Leon and Roy in the same shot.





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[ThatRhythmMan]

Actually it’s not a short scale,but it’s definitely a Custom Gibson. That’s Leon Rhodes from Texas Playboys fame. He wanted a brighter sound from his neck pickup,much like a 24 fret placement of the neck pickup. And instead of tweaking the pickup they moved it back towards the bridge.

Leon was quite a great guitarist along with many other older well know country guitarists. Hank Garland, Thumbs Carlisle, Phil Baugh, Jimmy Bryant..

That’s right! He had 24 fret prototypes too that always throw me off. They always look shorter scale to me.


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