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SteCenturion
I am your Father
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Love the Rancher 3BM.
It's a new model isn't it ? Or a re-issue of an old model ?
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It's a new model isn't it ? Or a re-issue of an old model ?
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SteCenturion
I am your Father
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- The Dark Side of the Moon.
Nearly bought a Strat Plus Deluxe in the late 80's early 90's.
Lace Sensor pickups available in different flavours & combinations.
Early Clapton signature models had these pickups too.
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SteCenturion
I am your Father
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- The Dark Side of the Moon.
I like that you built your own from bits because it's something I could never contemplate doing.
Very rudimentary carpentry skills & I am scared of wires.. or the electricity that runs through them anyway.
What always amazes me when I pick it up is how well it stays in tune
jazzkat
Fixed wheel fanatic.
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It's hard to beat a nice bit of telecaster.
A friend had one in the late 90's. It was a great guitar, but there was 'something' lacking when compared to a 'proper' single coil strat. We did back to back tests with another strat and the difference was pretty obvious.
It never ceases to amaze me that Leo Fender got it so right with the tele, strat, precision and jazz basses.
raleighnut
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And yet at the time they took the
here is Steve Walwyn with 'the plank' his Tele
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-3Jl11PhIM&feature=player_detailpage
Edit- If it comes up on the end of the video on watching, click onto Shotgun Blues, first time I've ever seen that..........................Steve at his best. You'd like this @Saluki
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jazzkat
Fixed wheel fanatic.
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Indeed, however they did sell plenty of them. If I remember rightly that quote comes from Don Randall, Fenders rep on the road. I suspect it came from the music shops taking one look at the bound edge sunburst gibsons on their shop floor and thinking out loud that it wouldn't work out. Leo had spent time with musicians finding out what they wanted.
I think it was the perfect storm of American post war affluence, the search for something new and modern and of course the rising popularity of urban blues/rock n roll with the youth of the day.
There are some great Fender history books out there. Forest Whites book is good, as is "The sound heard around the world" good reads both of them.
Shut Up Legs
Down Under Member
Not strictly on topic, I know: I've always enjoyed the sound that guitars make when played with bows, such as by Jonsi of Sigur Ros, one of my favourite bands:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowed_guitar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowed_guitar
Cletus Van Damme
Previously known as Cheesney Hawks
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No, South Lakes. I live in a rather quant Victorian town on Morcambe bay
I agree with you about the rollers. Guitarists are very conservative and rightly so imho.
Cool, sounds like a nice place, I love Cumbria except for the poor job market, in West Cumbria anyway.
jazzkat
Fixed wheel fanatic.
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It is a lovely place, much better than Manchester where I'm originally from. I agree about the jobs. we are a bit better served to travel A590/M6 for work but locally it's pretty grim.
I've decided to call the one I made a 'Les Plank Junior'. (Double cut).
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SteCenturion
I am your Father
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& not forgetting the most famous guitar/bow exponent - Mr Jimmy Page.
