Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: tekbow on June 01, 2010, 05:08:57 PM
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Finally paid off my kotzen tele, and she's a beaut
and no i won't be putting BKP's in this one lol
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I'm not usually one for gold hardware, nor sunburst teles for that matter, but that does look rather tasty. (Especially against that door!)
Congratulations :D
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I'm not usually one for gold hardware, nor sunburst teles for that matter, but that does look rather tasty. (Especially against that door!)
Congratulations :D
My sentiments exactly actually, i usually like neither, but here they seem to work.
the door came with the flat so technically second hand, i believe it's a multipiece beech effort with a hand rubbed oil finish, so i imagine it's resonant as hell
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That's really interesting you're the same on the colour scheme. I wouldn't rule out gold hardware either, if it was "right", and I've recently acquired a sunburst strat with maple fingerboard (I think it's the maple/sunburst that I'm not so sure about), and I kinda love that now...
If it's got a good tone, Wez could probably make you a couple of lapsteels out of it (the door, that is :D)
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again odd you say that, because other than this guitar i'm not a gold hardeware person. as you say, on the right guitar. oddly enough here's 2 strats with gold hardware (happen to be kotzen strats) and they're gorgeous
http://www.katanaguitars.com/product/33
http://www.katanaguitars.com/product/86
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Actually, yeah, it kinda works for me on those as well...
But if they were all in a room together though, I'd be more likely to allow photographs of me wearing your tele, the strats are just a bit "bling" for me :lol: - somehow the tele seems less so.
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yeah actually i'd agree with that, something about the strats are a little more show offy, the tele's kinda subtle, which i never thought i'd say about a gold hardwared, abalone inlayed, flame topped guitar :lol:
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Nice guitar! I agree with the comments about gold hardware, but it does seem to work in this instance.
Is that a real Richie Kotzen signature on the headstock?
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It is indeed, he did a store day in the shop in edinburgh i bought it from. signed three of them. I was able to chose my favourite from four (one wasn't signed). I didn't buy it because it was signed, i would have happily bought the unsigned one, but this sounded the best :D
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Very jealous, wanted one of those for ages!
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Yes, a very nice ( and opulent ! ) piece of gear there tekbow. I can imagine it covers a LOT of tonal range /bases. :D
Gold hardware ? ( It took me a little while to 'adjust ' to mine ) nice, - but be warned, you'll wake up one morning and start playing smoooooth Jazz ! 8)
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....Nice...
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I like that a lot, comgratulations.
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i have a pair of Kotzens, love the big necks, although the strat is slightly thinner. Great sounds on both. Fender Japan know how to put a guitar together 8)
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ohhh you got the surf green see thru one.... you know when i first saw that i thought urgh. but it's grower.. i want one bad now lol just something deeply cool about it. love the perloid buttons on the tuners
More info on the strat? they're rarer than the teles or at least harder to get hold of
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I think the surf green model has been discontinued so snap one up if you see one.
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:( they both have, apart from being signed, mine was also one of the last in the uk. the surf green tele that was n the shop i bought mine in might have been the last surf green one in the u.k.
the owner was telling me that when richie did the store day they had a talk about the guitars and i found out some interesting bits and pieces
1) they were discontinued throught lack of sales which shocked the hell out of me as it's an incredible guitar. they're very popular in certain area's but completely unsupported in others. what i'm taking from that is, basically guys in the states who know these love them but because they were never exported there, they never got the sales. they were imported for europe by fender europe as it didn't compete with any current item. a few years back the order came down from on high that jap guitars were just for the jap market, so essentially cutting off another market for them. this guitar is the "firefly" of guitars lol never given a chance
2) even though they were in production from the 90's there were only (and this came from richies mouth apparently) something like 400 of each colour produced, so the guitar is a lot rarer than you think.
3) richie didn't use some handmade custom shop model for touring and only put his name to this. He used these production line guitars for touring and studio work. he also signed off on all the guitars produced. The current red tele he's being seen with is a prototype of some description.
i thought it was interesting anyway lol
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I think the surf green model has been discontinued so snap one up if you see one.
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sweet :D
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I got my Green one from Imported Instruments in Scotland, they told me it was the last one in Japan, although Thomann had 1 Green in stock. Never been a sunburst fan so it was never an option for me to have that one.
The Strat was almost an impulse buy. I was getting rid of 2 strats (usa standard and strat plus) and very nearly bought the Eric Johnson strat after a borrowed a friends for a few days. I bought the red RK strat from Katana in Japan, thinking that if i didn't like it i's simply sell it and get the Johnson. But the RK for me is the better guitar, plays great and sounds killer. Only problem is that the bridge is cheap shite and the switch is cr@p. Which is a known problem with most Jap fenders, even Kotzen himself changes the switches for USA parts on his personal guitars.
The Red tele with no scratch plate that Richie used on the last tour is not going into production, but a black version is, limited to a few hundred pieces so i hear.
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I got my Green one from Imported Instruments in Scotland, they told me it was the last one in Japan, although Thomann had 1 Green in stock. Never been a sunburst fan so it was never an option for me to have that one.
The Strat was almost an impulse buy. I was getting rid of 2 strats (usa standard and strat plus) and very nearly bought the Eric Johnson strat after a borrowed a friends for a few days. I bought the red RK strat from Katana in Japan, thinking that if i didn't like it i's simply sell it and get the Johnson. But the RK for me is the better guitar, plays great and sounds killer. Only problem is that the bridge is cheap shitee and the switch is cr@p. Which is a known problem with most Jap fenders, even Kotzen himself changes the switches for USA parts on his personal guitars.
The Red tele with no scratch plate that Richie used on the last tour is not going into production, but a black version is, limited to a few hundred pieces so i hear.
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IMported instruments is round the corner from me :) if that's where you bought it i can guarantee it was at least the last in the uk. also i can guarantee you got one hell of a guitar :P
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Not sure, they didn't have one in stock, only 3 sunbursts. They had to order it in. It's an awesome guitar, heavy as hell compared to the strat
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Ah then i didn't get to play yours, but i did have numerous discussions with john about them. The 3 sunbursts were the last in europe, and there were a few Surf greens left but the distributer wasn't handing them out to shops, they were for paid up orders only. this was basically because so many shops were after the last ones.
here's something might interest you
http://www.nzaganin.com.br/novidades/ultimas.asp?id=210
http://www.customguitars.com.br/