Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: gwEm on March 23, 2011, 03:17:51 PM
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:D :D :D
she plays impeccably, even with 7.5" radius.
at work, more later...
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Mercy that's a beauty. Very nice, very very nice indeed. Clips, more photos etc. etc. You know our needs here. :)
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Awesome!
Had you mentioned having a Bravewood on the way, or is it just my memory letting me down?
How much did that cost, if you don't mind saying? I saw a Bravewood "Rory Gallagher" Strat on eBay a few weeks ago, looked fantastic and loads better than the Fender Tribute version. Much cheaper too, but still a hefty two grand.
(Does it have a F**d*r logo?)
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I've some more photos at home. Some space rock clips might be possible..
I hadn't mentioned the Bravewood, shes been a year in coming! Looking back, I wish I'd gone for a hardtail, though the trem is cool. I guess thats the problem with custom, your tastes may change as its being built. Nevertheless, I'm well chuffed.
edit: shes a '67 by the way
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Very nice. Look forward to more picks and a few clips. What pickups did you get in it?
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looks awesome!
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All guitars should be stratocasters.
Or telecasters.
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I've just realised I could've seen the headstock if I scrolled across :oops: .
Mid-'60s big headstock! Even more awesome than I thought! :D
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sweet :D
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That is lovely! Nice one.
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Very nice. A mate has one and it is a fantastic guitar so I'll expect yours will be a joy to behold.
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Hell yeah, looks awesome. Where are they made? What kind of price are they?
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Very nice. A mate has one and it is a fantastic guitar so I'll expect yours will be a joy to behold.
Thanks Mr38th! Indeed, it may even be the highest quality guitar I have (hard to say, considering my Feline V and WezV Firebird - a guitar which is often at hand).
I think the nicest thing about it is that it feels to play like a late 60s strat. Not that I've played that many, just a couple in shops, but it has the vibe, no doubt about it. I'm sure you would like it.
(Made in Cornwall by the way :) )
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Looks great.
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:D
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My kind of guitar! :D
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Very very lovely... I need to be vulgar and ask....... how much?
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(http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/comment/8/2011/03/d6b3109de0f229474184368e5b75f94e/original.gif)
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That do look mighty fine there sir :D
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My mate bought his a few minutes after it had been traded in by its original owner. Apparently it belonged to Gwyn Ashton. His is blue and looks very much like the one in the far right of the picture on the opening page of the website- it might even be the same one. I can beleive exactly what you say by it having the vibe- I can readily understand that. I tried to sneak it out of his house but he noticed.
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Very very lovely... I need to be vulgar and ask....... how much?
lets just say it was reasonably priced!
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Very nice. Look forward to more picks and a few clips. What pickups did you get in it?
its got a Bareknuckle set of course :) I think I asked for the '69 Custom set. I can't seem to find my multimeter to check that at the moment though :(
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Thanks for the nice comments guys!
More pictures showing the really great aging. The finished is blonde, as most of you already no doubt spotted, its really nice close up, slightly transparent, looks really good.
Just to say again, it plays like a dream, set up is really good - from what I can see, and little i know about these things, John has radiused the frets slightly flatter than the 7.25" radius of the fingerboard. anyway - the point is the action is medium-low and i can do two semi-tone bends without fretting out. neck is fast too. the dark rosewood gives the whole thing a mellow sound. i really need to verify what pickups are in there so i can tell you all more about them - but its time for work again :(
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It looks great, glad it all worked out. John really does make his guitars play like old ones. I have just ordered another from him, blue ice metallic, with a 67 bound rosewood neck and matching headstock.
If you have the 69 set, mine are 13k, 5.6k, 5.6k AV magnets.
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Congratulations Gwem, it looks great. certainly more convincing than anything i've seen from Fender. i do remain unconvinced by the whole relicing thing, but i appreciate a thing of beauty when i see it. hope you get much pleasure from it.
i actually played a '64 strat on Monday, in the same place that had the gold V. it was heavily worn, what paint was left was that salmony pink/red colour. beautiful guitar, and played quite nicely, but it did choke out on bends and the neck was tiny! nonetheless, i chose not to plug it in, as i didn't want to find myself trying to find twelve grand :)
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Looks awesome, much better than Nash. Never heard of them, gotta check prices!
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I just checked out the Bravewood site and now I've got big wood!!!!! I'd love an aged Mary Kaye Blonde, Sonic blue or Olympic white S type.... :?
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I've always said that I would get a Fender CS relic again some day. I think this guitar may change my mind! Everything on his site looks great!
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I'm surprised you gents haven't seen the Bravewood site before, it's been giving me GAS for years! :lol:
I think this would be the one for me, but a bit more reliced and I'd ask if he could do a "white on top of sunburst" finish. I'd also kind of like a bridge humbucker, but not sure if he'd do that.....
(http://www.bravewoodguitars.co.uk/images/mis%20S%20front%202.jpg)
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I'm surprised you gents haven't seen the Bravewood site before, it's been giving me GAS for years! :lol:
I think this would be the one for me, but a bit more reliced and I'd ask if he could do a "white on top of sunburst" finish. I'd also kind of like a bridge humbucker, but not sure if he'd do that.....
(http://www.bravewoodguitars.co.uk/images/mis%20S%20front%202.jpg)
Hi Philly, John does do white over sunburst. I have it on the body he made me for my 60 neck.
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Bummer... he doesn't do custom orders anymore! He says in his Q&A's section he will only make 2-3 guitars per month to his spec and then put them up for sale on a first come first served basis.
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Hi Philly, John does do white over sunburst. I have it on the body he made me for my 60 neck.
Thanks Phil! :) I can't remember, are there pics of that one somewhere on the BKP site?
Oops, more GAS!! :o
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I'm surprised you gents haven't seen the Bravewood site before, it's been giving me GAS for years! :lol:
Oh I knew it was there. It's just that I hadn't looked at it in ages and was trying to forget all about it!
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All guitars should be stratocasters.
Or telecasters.
Wrong
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All guitars should be stratocasters.
Or telecasters.
Wrong
Indeed. All guitars should be SGs - except for Telecasters and Stratocasters :mrgreen:
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BTW, that guitar is uber hot, gwEm!
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Tasty axe dude!
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This is definitly the most horrible guitar I've ever seen, and I'm not jealous. Not at all :mrgreen:
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Hi Philly, John does do white over sunburst. I have it on the body he made me for my 60 neck.
Thanks Phil! :) I can't remember, are there pics of that one somewhere on the BKP site?
Oops, more GAS!! :o
There a sonic blue over sunburst I think, mine was a restoration, which I managed to convince him to do.
Bummer... he doesn't do custom orders anymore! He says in his Q&A's section he will only make 2-3 guitars per month to his spec and then put them up for sale on a first come first served basis.
He might be doing orders again, it's worth checking if you want one.
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Bummer... he doesn't do custom orders anymore! He says in his Q&A's section he will only make 2-3 guitars per month to his spec and then put them up for sale on a first come first served basis.
He might be doing orders again, it's worth checking if you want one.
Cheers Phil, I will do. Do you know what kind of ballpark they are in pricewise. I don't want to embarrass myself if I call him up.
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I'm not sure of the exact prices because I always order something a bit different. However I think they are in the £1500-1800 range.
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Cheers Phil! I have to say I am very pleasantly surprised, I'll give him a call.
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I'd love to give him a call but juts odn't have the money :x
Those prices are (IMO) way better than anything the Fender Custom Shop can offer. I just hope they stay at a good level until I can afford to buy one!!!!!
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OK, so I finally measured the DC on the pickups.
Each one is 5.6k (5.9 in the bridge I think) - so I suspect its slab boards in all positions. Now - thats not what I asked for (wanted the Gilmour or whatever its called in the bridge). But I'm quite impressed since the bridge position isn't ice picky in the slightest, despite having no tone control and handles a bit of poke.
I need to experiment more with the guitar. I may eventually change the pickups, even though they do sound very good.
Have been too busy for playing with amps lately, so have been using her late nights unplugged.