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    Quote Originally Posted by Bluedawg
    Danocaster is a well-respected "partscaster" builder.

    Danocaster

    Wherever he is getting his bodies and necks from doesn't seem to bother anyone.

    He's selling everything he builds as far as I can tell, and the used ones for sale are asking more than he charges on his website.


    Maybe Nacho is doing the same magic with outsourced bodies and necks. I guess they are in Europe since I see Euros mentioned on the restocking fee.



    I do get a tickle out of this at the Nacho website:

    "Only members of the Nachoguitar club receive our product offerings."

    Not sure I want to join a club that would take me as a member.


    Didn‘t know that. By the way, Julian played a Danocaster before his Nacho

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    Nacho Banos recently acquired a warehouse full of old swampash from a timber merchant in Valencia who imported it some 60 years back for a guitar building project that never took off. This would seem to suggest he makes his own bodies, and, I believe also, his own necks. Ron Ellis informed me by email, that he hasn't supplied Nacho with pickups for some time, so he probably winds these now too. He has a team of 3 or 4 people building the Nacho guitars, and suggests interested parties register their interest. Those who do get to hear first what is available when a 'new' batch is produced, and these are usually sold within 2/3 days. He also now builds to order. I've always found him helpful and very agreeable.
    By the way Project Music in Devon have three JL470s in stock at about £750 less than Coda Music, if you have to buy one and you're UK based.

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    Collings Electric Guitars

    ^^ Link to Project Music UK


    I don't listen to Julian Lage and I do not want the guitar.

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    Quote Originally Posted by stefan eff
    oh yes, sure:

    Attachment 93625
    this is a swampash thinline with maple top, angled neckpocket (to avoid a shim), bigsby b-16, barfuss pickups. Truarc serpentune bridge.
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    the neck is a aaaaa-flamed roasted maple fat neck (maple cap).
    My favourite guitar. Handmade.
    Sounds like a dream, plays like butter.

    *and this guitar is truly no alternative to the collings 470jl (even if the special wound neck pickup sounds somewhat similar, it‘s a fat one with >10.000 windings and old jazzbass magnets), so sorry for being completely o.t. Anyway:
    It‘s really a magic pickup and everything but a regular telecaster type ;-)
    holy wow, that neck is gorgeous!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by sully75
    I'm of the somewhat unpopular opinion that 89% of a guitar's tone is the pickups, 5% the setup and the other 6% is also the pickups.
    My past experiences say otherwise. Guitars, even solid bodies, have an inherent tone and no amount of pickups can change that. I've had a few over the years that no mater the pickup swap they always sounded pretty much the same. If the inherent tone was thin, then it was still thin after a pickup swap. It was different, but still thin.

    Same works other way, if a guitar had a solid thick tone, it would retain that tone with a pu swap. I have a tele that no matter the pickup it always sounds kind of the same and that sound is amazing. I have another tele that sounds thin no matter what I do. Had similar experience with a Epi 335 pu swap from cheap Epi HB's to early Gib 57's.
    Last edited by street; 08-07-2022 at 12:08 PM. Reason: spell check....

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    Quote Originally Posted by street
    My past experiences say otherwise. Guitars, even solid bodies, have an inherent tone and no amount of pickups can change that.
    s.
    Totes. There’s a YouTube clip from a guy who built 5 interchangeable bodies, ash, mahogany, particleboard from a door, maple, something like that. All pluggable to the same extended neck with pups. And while he was showing “there’s no difference in sound” and stuck to it, I could clearly hear significant differences even on my phone speaker!


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    Quote Originally Posted by whiskey02
    Here's something to argue about: I think Julian is the greatest player to come along since Metheny. As much as I respect him and his need to earn a living, I find his amazing talents largely wasted with the americana schtick he's currently playing.
    Love's not the only thing that hurts!
    I agree. I’m a big fan and I do enjoy his crunchy guitar trio records, but I think Worlds Fair is maybe the most inspiring guitar record of all time and the trio stuff doesn’t hit me like that. Of course who am I to tell him what to record seems like he loves playing folk and Americana inspired tunes with the trio