The wife is away for a couple of weeks so I am going through the music room and getting some stuff out for storage (normally I can't get in there). In doing this I thought that I could put up some pictures of the collection as people keep asking me about my guitars. Since I wanted to post a good description of the relative sounds of the BK Tele bridge pickups, I thought that the Tele's might be a good starting place.
Going from left to right front to back:
Fender Japan 62 Tele Custom reissue - Candy Apple Red - the eagle eyed will notice the left handed bridge, used to have a 63 Tele and Danelectro Lipstick Tube on it, probably will go back to that as I love the Dano neck tone.
1958 Tele - blonde BK Black Guard flatpole set. Great sounding pickups - gets all the classic tele sounds and more. The neck is almost Strat like in tone, more push than the usual tele pickup.
1959 Esquire - sunburstBK Brown Sugar bridge and Harmony Chris Issak neck (repaired by Tim). The Chris Issak is a Gibson mini-HB (Complete with PAF sticker). The bridge gets all the Stones tones, and the neck works great with it.
Warmoth Tele build Swamp ash body in Butterscotch Blonde, Goncalo Alves/Kingwood neck. Piledriver neck, Slowhand Bridge. I put the 'dark circuit' wiring in this, bridge/neck/neck with filter. Gets great Led Zep tones, and the Slowhand gives a fatter neck sound.
1962 Tele - Dakota Red refin This is actually a 57 swamp ash body with a 62 neck. It sounds great but not as powerful as the BK's but this has a really nice set of pickups (original 62's), and the neck gets a very sweet usable tone.
Most of them have the Stewart MacDonald compensated Brass Saddles fitted and a couple have the 4-way switch.
For the interior designers, it a a repro Fainting Couch from the 60's and the carpet is a real Kashmir silk carpet.
