Non-Telecaster solid-body guitars for jazz

[Stackabones]

Jazz is music, not gear. But I agree that guitarists and audiences have expectations about image. Still ... it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing. Flying V or Es-175 or ukulele or kazoo. Gotta swing.

[spiral]

Any damn guitar is a candidate for playing jazz. What is the great mystery? Is there some magic tone that I don't know about? I think brown guitars sound better than green ones.

x100.

One of these in pearlescent grey please

[docbop]

Jazz is music, not gear. But I agree that guitarists and audiences have expectations about image. Still ... it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing. Flying V or Es-175 or ukulele or kazoo. Gotta swing.

I would say guitarists have expectations not audiences as to visual expectations. Audiences have more expectations about sound, but probably don't know why something doesn't sound like they expected.

[NSJ]

Well, there is a practical and real difference in terms of PRODUCTION between a hand carved arch top and a bolt-on, factory produced solid body guitar. The former can take months and months to produce.

The later? My teacher's best friend was the former CEO of Fender Guitars, and told him the TOTAL production time (very beginning to ready to put into packaging, etc) for the sold body Fenders (Teles, Strats, Squires, etc) was about 3 hours and 30 minutes.

Not making a statement about good or bad, just stating some facts about production time.

[aleksandar]

You just can't go on a jazz gig with this kind of guitar. You just can't

[valriver40]

i play an epihone les paul. the pup's were changed to gibsons 57's, pots and cap's were upgraded. i play thru a cube 80. sound great! well to me anyway. i do have a multitude of hollow and semi hollow bodied guitars (gibsons, epip's fenders etc.) that i play.