What's up peeps? I've been wanting to share this one for a while. I've had other new gear days more recently but this one is just special.
A few months ago I listed my Squier Classic Vibe Jag bass for sale or trade locally as I just wasn't using it. A guy (who is also a guitar builder) contacted me, told me he was looking for a good starter bass for his son who's learning to play, and asked if I'd be interested in trading for one of his builds. He included pics of a few amazing looking guitars (2 teles & a strat) and this baby caught my eye. It's a thinline tele painted shoreline gold with SD P-Rails installed. He told me he hand-builds his bodies (even sent pics of some mid-build) and buys the necks from Allparts or somewhere similar.
It turns out he's built guitars for a bunch of other people, including one of the guys in Red Jumpsuit Apparatus who took it out on tour, and the guitarist in B-Easy (never heard of them previously).
Before I go any further, PICS!!
(His pics. I can't be arsed to take any.
)Some specs:
- Alder body
- AllParts neck with Ebony fretboard
- Seymour Duncan P-Rails
- Kluson locking tuners
- Gotoh bridge
- Switchcraft 3-way switch
- Switchcraft jack with ElectroSocket jack plate
- CTS pots
- Graph-tech nut
The two tone pots are push-pull. When both down, each pickup is a humbucker. When you pull the lower tone knob, each becomes a single coil, pulling the upper tone only gives you P90s, and pulling both gives you a single coil and a P90 in parallel (IIRC). This guitar plays amazing and I absolutely love it. It's super versatile with the P-Rails. The guy told me this thing would basically sell for $1200 if he was building it for a client and it totally feels like it. Noice!
