Now I need some Yardbirds

[Elliot]

Nice - I love tele customs: I salivated over a surf green model in the window of Regents Guitar for months, till some lucky SOAB bought it.

brass saddles wouldn't be period correct, though.  If I had such a beauty I would get the Glendale 'groovy little 60s' set:

http://www.glendaleguitars.com/coldrolled.jpg

[dave_mc]

^ yeah, my favourite colour in teles with r/wood boards is probably surf green too. Blue is nice too, it's similar. :)

[AndyR]

Nice - I love tele customs: I salivated over a surf green model in the window of Regents Guitar for months, till some lucky SOAB bought it.

brass saddles wouldn't be period correct, though.  If I had such a beauty I would get the Glendale 'groovy little 60s' set:

http://www.glendaleguitars.com/coldrolled.jpg

I think I was looking at that Surf green one as well :lol: Doesn't really do it for me though (and my wife would hate it :lol:)

For me it was a black one, maybe a blue one, and possibly a candy apple red - but I'm a bit unsure about sparkly guitars for me, I'd have to see one in the flesh...

And I'm thinking the same as you on the brass saddles "not period correct". These ones seem to be working fine at the moment - plenty twang and sustain.

My only "hmmm..." so far is that the edges of the bridge-plate are quite sharp and rough in places.

Game plan is as follows - play it to death with these strings and pickups over the next few weeks. Get Yardbirds and a four-way switch in a month or so (you watch, I'll have ordered them by the end of the week now! :lol:). Then while the bridge is off, and minus a big fat magnet of a pickup(!), do a bit of wire-wooling on the bridge-plate edges. Then put it back together and see where we go from there...

[FernandoDuarte]

I recomend the Glendale! Very nice! I've the one with the ears lowed...

[PhilKing]

My CAR is in this pick.  I put a left handed bridge in it just to have somethig different to my real 62 (the one in Dakota Red on the couch).  I am thinking of putting a set of BK's into it, either a Boss set or the new Blackguard 52 set (I think that's what they are called).

[AndyR]

Ooo, Ooo! I have questions now Phil...

I thought I read the other day that you had Yardbirds in... er... which one then? I thought it was your MIJ, which I assumed was the CAR? (Mebbe I've got you confused with someone else... I wasn't expecting to buy this custom right now, so wasn't paying complete attention :lol:)

"the new Blackguard 52 set"... what's that?!! I know about the Flat 50s and the 55 Staggered, is this something new? :lol:

EDIT: And Elliot and Fernando, you're not tempting me with these expensive looking bits of metal-work. I'm working on the "if it ain't broke" approach to the hardware at the moment :lol:

[FernandoDuarte]

Isn't the CAR a freaking vehicle of 4 whells??  


Nah, not trying to tempt you, just saying it's very nice and I like the lowered ears, all I wished on Tele (to be fair I've never played in other with the vintage bridge, but I've got the feeling that it's not as nice)

[AndyR]

"Candy Apple Red", Fernando (took me some time to figure it out a while back :D)

[FernandoDuarte]

I would not find it out even with a shotgun on my head :lol:

[PhilKing]

Ooo, Ooo! I have questions now Phil...

I thought I read the other day that you had Yardbirds in... er... which one then? I thought it was your MIJ, which I assumed was the CAR? (Mebbe I've got you confused with someone else... I wasn't expecting to buy this custom right now, so wasn't paying complete attention :lol:)

"the new Blackguard 52 set"... what's that?!! I know about the Flat 50s and the 55 Staggered, is this something new? :lol:

No Yardbirds because my 62 pickups sound almost exactly the same (I have played Yardbirds on BK stand at LGS - remember I get there before the crowds and so can actually hear what they sound like!).

There is a new BG set - I think - Tim was talking to me about it a couple of months ago, but I haven't seen anything since (but I also haven't asked him about them either as the last pickups I was getting were Emeralds and a Champion Lap Steel [10k Piledriver]). 

[AndyR]

Ah - that makes sense, and does kind of fit in with what I was remembering you saying on the Yardbirds front.

I'm guessing that a 52 Blackguard set would have a bridge pickup somewhere between the 50 and 55 - so seeing as I rather like the meat of the 50's bridge, I'm OK, and I don't have to start getting sleepness nights over my existing pups :lol:

[Pete24v]

i've just bought Phill Q's Baja, looking foarward to getting hold of it!

my previous tele was a lite ash model with the SD pickups, i'm going to keep the Baja standard for a while.. but if it needs fattening up slightly, what do you guys reccomend? I still want it Tele-like

[AndyR]

Well, my Baja has got Blackguard Flat 50s in it - that's what I'd go for personally, but I might be tempted to enquire (Tim/BKP) about these Blackguard 52s that Philking mentions - I wouldn't mind knowing what they're all about.

I kept my Baja stock for 2-3 months, and was struggling to "get into it". The minute I put the Blackguard 50s in it was the business for me - everything just a little bit fatter/warmer than the stock pickups but still with all the clarity/top-end.

I've not played a real Broadcaster/Nocaster, but this thing sounds fairly "authentic early tele" to me.

I use it for blues/rock/country type noodlings, and depending on the amp models I use I can get it to do biting tele or fat tele, sounds great clean, dirty.... everything I want :D

[ToneMonkey]

Isn't the CAR a freaking vehicle of 4 whells??  


Nah, not trying to tempt you, just saying it's very nice and I like the lowered ears, all I wished on Tele (to be fair I've never played in other with the vintage bridge, but I've got the feeling that it's not as nice)

I was looking out the window for his car too.  Think I found a motorbike though.

Phil - how many guitars do you have exactly.  I want to be like you when I grow up  :D

[horsehead]

nice one mate...very Gilby Clarke