Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: FELINEGUITARS on November 08, 2013, 04:47:46 PM
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Just completed a tele style guitar - calling it our Tabby Special model
Featuring an alder body - with strat style contours
the neck is a 3 piece quarter sawn maple neck with a maple fingerboard
25.5" scale length with Dunlop 6000 frets
Inlays are Paua abalone and we finished the body finished in a colour to compliment the inlays
The headstock leans back giving a decent break angle over the Earvana nut
Sperzel tuners and a wilkinson designed Gotoh bridge with twistable saddles take care of the string anhoring
Electronics wise we have a Bare Knuckle Boss at the bridge position and a TV Jones Magnatron unit at the neck position.
We had some special tele control plates made with a Gibson toggle switch in place of the blade switch
Sonically it's a nice mix
The Boss is a good tough sounding tele pickup and rocks out well
However I have discovered that the Boss is a great unit for rockabilly and surf styles.
The TV Jones is a bit like a tele neck pickup on steroids , yet has an acoustic guitar like sound to it.
Once again the rockabilly and surf sounds are fab with this unit.
the guitar was made however so that I could easily swap the neck pickup and pickguard to take either a single coil tele pickup or (as may well happen) putting a Mississippi Queen in there.
The guitar is a bit of a good all- rounder and is forcing me out of my usual dual humbucker comfort zone
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Oh I really like that a lot, everything about it in fact. I've always wondered what a meaty Tele bridge pickup paired with a TV Jones neck would sound like.
Don't suppose you plan on making those Tele pickup plates with the Gibson toggle hole available to regular punters do you? I'm, err, asking for a friend.
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We have some spares of the plate available Andrew. pm me if you want one.
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ah, when you mentioned it earlier I didn't realize it was for you. Love it, think I'd prefer a 6saddle bridge but that's me 8)
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I am not even gonna bother praising the guitar as I have said it all before mutliple times and could just about copy and paste it for everything you build.
What I am gonna say though is that I love the photography, great improvement there. You make it look so freaking tasty....and I the worst part is that I still am sure that they look even better in person.
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Hmm not keen on the green blobs on the knobs.
However loving the 12th fret eyes and the toggle switch :D
Angled headstock, surely that's heresy though?.... :P
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That looks tab-ulous. =p
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The knobs are topped with turquoise stone.
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wow
what colour is that? blueburst? aquaburst? I love those type of colours :D
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Super cool looking axe. The color scheme is really great. The only thing I would change if I could is the headstock. For this type of guitar I prefer a less sharp and pointy one, but that might be caused by my general dislike of pointy headstocks.
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I'm loving the toggle too
Nice guitar!
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what colour is that? blueburst? aquaburst? I love those type of colours :D
Likewise. :D
And I like the modified control plate, nice touch.
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Beautiful! :D
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That's really a stunning tele! I like the toggle and the pickup-choice. And I love the colour. Beautiful.
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It's a stunning looking guitar. The finish, the scratchplate, the clever control plate, it's all good. I'm sure it sounds every bit as good as it looks too
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Superb as always Jonathan.
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That's really nice. I'm not too keen on the pickguard colour, but that's just me not liking black pearl. The pickguard shape however is superb, love it. I bet it plays and sounds fantastic.
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That is a sweet burst!!!
I can attest to the Magnatron in the neck lovely pickup, as I had that put in a custom he made me.
a bit different from the usual has an almost singlecoil tone to it
Lovely work Jonathan as always :D
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That is a sweet burst!!!
I can attest to the Magnatron in the neck lovely pickup, as I had that put in a custom he made me.
a bit different from the usual has an almost singlecoil tone to it
Lovely work Jonathan as always :D
Yes it was the sound that we got from your custom build that made me try the Magnatron again
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Heard this in action the other night. Really good range of sounds available. the Magnatron does the trick of sounding deep, but very clear, it can take a surprising amount of gain. Got me thinking, as Jonathan's specials always do!