Can I show off my guitars here?

[GAR]

What year is it then, Matt?

You know the routine.. first and fifth digit of the serial together make the year it was born, for Gibsons!

[GAR]

Okay I'm gonna throw out a guess here: by the hardware, color and pattern it looks pre-Juskiewicz era Gibson. Maybe 1977 to 1982?

or is it an Epi?

[Diamondjimi]

Tell us about your Charvette....

[jhale667]

P.O.S. -likely with a ghey crackle finish.

Tell us about your Charvette....

Let's save him the trouble, so he can y'know, STAY THE FUCK OUT OF THE FORUM like he said he was going to...

It's plywood. It has shitty pickups and hardware, and sounds and plays like it...just like its' owner...

[Cato]

cough....this is supposed to arrive to my kennel tomorrow...

http://www.fender.com/customshop/instruments/search.php?partno=1520502898

[GAR]

Will you keep that neck pickup?

I replaced mine with a 1970 Les Paul Deluxe mini humbucker. Bridge and bridge pickup, controls plate, electronics came from a 68 Tele.

I know what the Andy Summers setup sounds like, I'm interested in finding greater highs and midrange than stock neck pickup.

[jhale667]

cough....this is supposed to arrive to my kennel tomorrow...

http://www.fender.com/customshop/ins...tno=1520502898

Nice!

[GAR]

Pickguard's gotta go though. That things gay.

[jhale667]

The alternative being...

Pickguard's gotta go though. That things gay.

Standard Tele one would partially cover the F-hole, which would be Uber-gay.

[GAR]

Look at the cutaway horn - does that look like a Tele?

No. It's strange, different. They could have moved the Fhole or done something modern since this is a modern interpretation.

Ever since Fender lost that trademark copywrite suit, it seems they have been trying to reprofile their guitars to give other builders no leeway on the profile.

As if to say "let's copywrite every permutation of Strat or Tele copy that's been out there then threaten everyone with lawyerball" on it.

This will backfire on them eventually, because when you buy a Telecaster you expect to see the traditional profile. Not this shallow cutaway, I'm not fond of it but there must be a reason for it's existence.

[jhale667]

Look at the cutaway horn - does that look like a Tele?

No. It's strange, different. They could have moved the Fhole or done something modern since this is a modern interpretation.

Ever since Fender lost that trademark copywrite suit, it seems they have been trying to reprofile their guitars to give other builders no leeway on the profile.

As if to say "let's copywrite every permutation of Strat or Tele copy that's been out there then threaten everyone with lawyerball" on it.

This will backfire on them eventually, because when you buy a Telecaster you expect to see the traditional profile. Not this shallow cutaway, I'm not fond of it but there must be a reason for it's existence.

It is a little different, but I might actually like it better. Not a huge Tele fan really, but for some reason the thinlines are kinda cool(er), IMO.

And it is stated in the product blurb as an "interpretation" "Originally conceived as a model that could’ve been made during the halcyon days of the early ’50s (we didn’t begin building thinline guitars until 1968)"...


Don't change a thing on it, CATO! Y'know, unless you wanna...

[GAR]

Maybe a P90 in the neck.. stock tele rhythm pu sux balls

[jhale667]

Pay no attention to the troll behind the curtain, Cato.

Maybe a P90 in the neck.. stock tele rhythm pu sux balls

Perhaps the Dimarzio Virtual Vintage that SOUNDS more like a P90 but looks stock, if he doesn't want to do a destructive mod to it...

But better yet -how about we wait to see what he thinks of it when he GETS it before offering suggestions on how to "imrpove" it...?

[GAR]

But better yet -how about we wait to see what he thinks of it when he GETS it before offering suggestions on how to "imrpove" it...?

He's just gonna scratch it up with those chopsticks. In Tokyo real plastic Fender Medium pics cost 775 yen.

[jhale667]