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I love the neck pickup for cleans and lead licks as its really thick, and if you setup your pedals correctly you can still get a good chug out of it. Just thicker.

I was watching a video on youtube earlier and a guy had a huge college of vintage Fender guitars and amps and he was talking about how he grew up with these sounds in the early days of rock and roll. It got me thinking, the baby boomers are getting up there in age. I was born in '74 and I have a definite appreciation for vintage gear but a lot of the times I'm most stoked on the oddball gear of the 70's and 80's like Travis Beans and even pointy BC Rich's that I could never afford (I still have dreams about that damn "R" logo) and fuzz pedals and tape delays of the early 70's have always been more of an interest than Fender amps and guitars of the 50's and 60's. I do own a '57 Fender Harvard and I love it and I'd love to add some 50's Tele's and 60's Jazzmasters if I could afford it but do you think gear form the 50's and 60's will start dropping in price over the next 10 or so years since when the boomers start dying off or at least stop collecting so much gear as they move into retirement? I think when we hit our 40's and 50's and most of us reach our peak incomes, we start getting nostalgic for things of our childhood that we missed out on the first time around or things we had and lost over the years. Wouldn't it figure that has my generation heads into their 40's we'll start collecting gear of our childhoods and not that gear of our parents generation? I'm sure there will always be a strong market for the 50's Fender gear since it's the defining origin of rock and roll but $500,000 for a '59 Les Paul might not last too much longer.

That's like a reverse Esquire.

And in black on black.

greyscales wrote:That's like a reverse Esquire.

And in black on black.

Exactly what I was going for! but I couldn't find a word that was opposite of esquire to call it.

Esquire: a polite title appended to a man's name when no other title is used

Sounds like you need to give it a title indicating something far from polite.

Hmmm let me locate my thinking cap and ponder it for a while!

Necksquire!

Ancient Astronaught wrote:I love the neck pickup for cleans and lead licks as its really thick, and if you setup your pedals correctly you can still get a good chug out of it. Just thicker.

Neck is where it's at. I like to make it so I can blend in a little bridge fro definition but get most of my sound from the neck. Dual volumes is best but failing that I just lower the bridge pup so it's not as prominent.

Ancient Astronaught wrote:

greyscales wrote:That's like a reverse Esquire.

And in black on black.

Exactly what I was going for! but I couldn't find a word that was opposite of esquire to call it.

Scoundrel? Vagabond?

I've got a black on black tele too. Yours makes me want to ditch the bridge pickup bad

Ohhhh Vagabond! I like it!!!

Post some pics I love a classy tele! I'm gonna try n record a clip of mine later today if I can get the kids to calm down.

Simplicity is the best sometimes. Looks super good!
I really want another guitar with only a middle pickup. I think I'm the only person who likes them.

I always thought if I were only able to use one pickup it would be a middle. It just looks a bit odd sometimes.

Achtane wrote:Simplicity is the best sometimes. Looks super good!
I really want another guitar with only a middle pickup. I think I'm the only person who likes them.

I really like it on the Rick 425. On Strats I hear more people complaining about hitting the middle pickup with their picking technique -- Robbie Robertson moved his next to the bridge for this reason.

All these teles make me want to build one