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Just want to share my experience with my new amp, the Yamaha THR10C. Looked at lots of practice amps for a clean sound w nice reverb and delay, and this amp really stood out. Been using it now for about a month, and pretty much keep it on the "flat" amp setting, with gain at 10:00, trebel and bass at 12:00, chorus at its max, and hall reverb at its max. Through it, my roadworn tele sounds heavenly, and I can assure you it's the setup, not me. Seriously otherworldly.
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07-13-2017 08:27 AM
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Not sure if posted before, but too cool to ignore...
Bill Frisell's 24 3/4" scale Telecaster:
Neck built by JW Black
TK Smith neck pickup and pickguard
Art by Terry Turrell
Last edited by archtopeddy; 07-13-2017 at 11:07 AM.
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yeah barney used a tele when he was doing session work in la...a lot of jazz guys did..tedesco, bain, roberts etc...
Originally Posted by Buzzz
howard roberts in studio
when barney k was asked what was the toughest thing about being a studio musician/guitarist?
his classic response-
finding a parking space!
haha
cheers
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Looks like Howard had the neck modified to flatten the fingerboard radius. Wonder if he used those enormously heavy strings for which he was famed. Originally Posted by neatomic
howard roberts in studio
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Those string ends poking past the tuners sure look fat to me. You can clearly see three or four of 'em! They ain't no Super Slinkys, that's for sure. Originally Posted by Cunamara
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Agree with what you're saying and we can say all we want, but pics are the real proof. :-) Originally Posted by christianm77
Here's my 8502 and 70s Fender Vibrolux Reverb:
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There's modding for show and then there's modding oh no no no! Originally Posted by archtopeddy
Not sure if posted before, but too cool to ignore...
Bill Frisell's 24 3/4" scale Telecaster:
Neck built by JW Black
TK Smith neck pickup and pickguard
Art by Terry Turrell
The accused...
Currently for sale in the UK on eBay for £250/$325/€284!
Price does not include sneakers.
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I effing love the sound of that guitar. It also looks/sounds like Frisell is playing flatwounds for once. I can't wait for my TK pickups and new neck to arrive. I think this nostalgic tone is underrated for modern music. I love the sound of modern harmony through old equipment. Especially with an old Octal tube amp, which enhances the lower harmonics. Originally Posted by archtopeddy
Not sure if posted before, but too cool to ignore...
Bill Frisell's 24 3/4" scale Telecaster:
Neck built by JW Black
TK Smith neck pickup and pickguard
Art by Terry Turrell
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tk smith uses, promotes (& sells) thomastik jazzswing flats..he personally uses the 13's...
cheers
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Frisell makes great use of the 24 3/4 scale neck in this song and flat wounds would be an excellent choice on this guitar. He's also playing through a a Strymon Flint pedal and a Gibson GA-50T amp. The pedal just sounds killer! Originally Posted by omphalopsychos
I'm jealous you're getting TK pickups! Are you putting them on a Tele and is the new neck you're getting a short scale by chance? Who's making the neck?
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As you should be! Note that the pickups I'm getting are not his Aluminum cased CAR pickups but his Charlie Christian Style neck pickup (with a Curtis Novak bridge tele-style pup). Supposedly his CC is identical to the CAR but without the casing. Originally Posted by archtopeddy
The tele will be a frankenstein of parts. I found a beautiful and tastefully relic'ed (i.e. not extreme like Nash guitars) body from Guitar Mill. I'm getting the neck custom made from Musikraft. It's a dark-roasted maple Snakehead with 12" radius and 1 3/4" nut. The scale is full length. I considered Gibson scale, but I already have some Gibsons!
The body arrived today. I'll post some pics when I get a chance. I also happened to get a new neck for my other tele with standard tele pickups (Lollar 52s). (That neck also a snakehead, but this one is from Warmoth).
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Sounds like my kind of Frankenstein Tele! TK Smith CC-pickups, lightly relic'd, and a dark-roast maple Snakehead neck. Too cool! I've only heard good things about Musikraft necks. I look forward to seeing pics and learning more about how you feel about its mojo when it's complete. Originally Posted by omphalopsychos
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As promised, here are some pics. On the right is my new warmoth snakehead on a MIM tele with lollar pickups. On the left a Guitar Mill relic body in nicotine blonde which will get the TK Charlie Christian setup and a roasted maple snakehead. Also some close ups of the cool finish checking on the Guitar Mill body.
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nice! 5 screw pickguards a must..but get some single slot screws instead of the "modern" phillips!!..a nice "extra" vintage touch
cheers
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Jimmy Bryant played a Tele. That's all I need to know!
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yeah man.. Originally Posted by dallasblues
jimmy bryant was first! tele user.. and he put them on the map
leo brought jimmy b early tele proto-type..to club where jimmy b was playing...jimmy went right up on stage and started playing it..by the time he was done..a legend was born!!..this is true hollywood film type stuff!!!
jimmy bryant!!
cheers
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Around the July 4th weekend I picked up a cheap Asian-made lefty Cozart snakehead Tele. It was pretty much wrong in every aspect except for the shape: Thick poly seafoam green, three ply pickguard, black plastic control panel, cheap electronics and icepick-like pickup. But it looked like a fun inexpensive project to noodle with so I got to hacking on it. (As a lefty, you don't get a lot of choices sometimes.)
After sanding, repainting with white primer, adding a slight vintage tint, aging with black tea and brown shoe polish, scraping with x-acto knife and screw driver, tin-snipping my own aluminum control cover, adding relic'd machine heads, neck plate, strap buttons, bridge plate, brass saddles, CTS pots, an orange drop cap, and a Seymour Duncan Alnico II Pro bridge pickup -- the guitar has become a gig-able and fun axe to play.
Of course, all the parts cost as much as the guitar -- and I still hope to add a boatneck Musikraft neck, but what the heck, it was a lot fun. And, other than the seafoam green ones, as far as I know there aren't too many lefty "repro" snakehead Teles around.
So here goes -- posted for your entertainment, sneers and amazement, is a photo of the guitar with the original seafoam version inserted in the corner.
Last edited by archtopeddy; 07-15-2017 at 08:50 PM.
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Since I finished my Warmoth tele about 6 weeks ago, I have been playing it pretty exclusively. Last night I felt bad for my other guitars, so I decided to play a little on each of them, tune em up, give em some love. They were all wrong. The boatneck tele is so comfy and the Lollar CC sounds so nice that I just wanted to go back... so I did. And today I found myself thinking, "should I sell a couple?"
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And now for something completely different...
Hollywood Bowl Bench Built Esquires!!
Fender Builds Esquires with Original Bench Boards from the | Reverb
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Heh. Yeah. I saw that yesterday. I guess it's cool and all, but 12k for an esquire? Not gonna happen. Originally Posted by Papawooly
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Looks fantastic, this is pretty much exactly the mod I am thinking of doing (trying to choose between the CV custom and the CV thinline as a base) so I would love to hear how it sounds. Also how much of a pain was it to do - did you have to enlarge the neck pickup rout in order to fit the CC. Originally Posted by Geert
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The Lollar cc takes about a p90 size rout, but maybe a touch deeper I think? It'll take some wood removal for sure. Originally Posted by sparkhall
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Went back to roundwounds recently on my Tele. Hadn't played a set of roundwound strings in ages. I wanted to use them, though, for a blues/rock gig I played last month. I just practiced with the Tele a few minutes ago. Generally, I play one of my archtops, acoustically, at home for practice.
Gosh, the Tele is a Bruce Lee arse-whipper with roundwounds on it. It does push me over into more of a Danny Gatton meets John Scofield vibe though.
You know, if we took all of the popular music that involved the Telecaster in some capacity and entombed it in one of the Pharaoh's tombs to be lost from collective consciousness, we'd end up losing about half of all of popular music, I'd guess.
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