Pricey, but neat.
A little Fender-Gretsch cross-pollination action.
"La Cabronita Especial"
Pricey, but neat.
A little Fender-Gretsch cross-pollination action.
"La Cabronita Especial"
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
why oh why must you post this? just as i am about to put together a new esquire?
"don't worry, i'm a professional!"
5K ???
do I look like I know what I'm doing?
I kinda like it... but that pickguard isn't doing it. Nor the no-control-plate thang. Nor the bridge. Nor the hot pup...
Kinda a good idea though! I have my own Gretsch-caster with a tele lead pup, a filter (a Gretsch HS one, not a Powertron) and a Bigsby.
5K is ludicrous for any guitar.
That's hot!
5K isn't.
It'd probably be hotter with a DeArmond, and old school tuners.
Several guitars in different colors
Things to make them fuzzy
Things to make them louder
orange picks
Yeah, I knew there was something I forgot to mention. What's going on with the tuners?
Oh come now, $5,000 is just a drop in the bucket.
A really, really BIG bucket.
Cool lookin' guit tho'.
PG
That looks very cool to me, but the fact that you can only get it in relic'd finishes would keep me from buying one even if I had five grand to drop on such an unusual axe.
"I haven't slept for ten days...because that would be too long." -- Mitch Hedberg
Too bad about the relic finish and high price. I love it otherwise.
Why on earth would they relic a guitar that never previously existed - WTF???
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
Interesting guit-fiddle...
If MSRP is 5k, it can be had for less. But...well...you know.
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
I like that...
Is it just me or does the body slightly resemble a Dano u1 with a different pup and tailpiece?
Yeah, I thought the one in that first pic, with the flat black finish, the simple, little bridge, and the funky white pickguard, looked like it had some Danelectro genes in it.
"I haven't slept for ten days...because that would be too long." -- Mitch Hedberg
I think I'd dig it more with a spade headstock
Several guitars in different colors
Things to make them fuzzy
Things to make them louder
orange picks
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
This guitar has rekindled my interest in putting a set of TV Jones Engish Mount TV Classics in my ES-135.
I wish I could fit a Tele neck on my 57 Dano U1.
Like this, for considerably less than $5k.
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
I'm thinking DeArmond at the bridge, filtertron at the neck.
Several guitars in different colors
Things to make them fuzzy
Things to make them louder
orange picks
A real live DeArmond 200/Dyna in the bridge of a full-scale Tele would be slammin!
Even a 2K would be pretty cool.
But the Kisake (sp?) make-your-own-guitar thing on the USACG site doesn't have any DeArmonds in their pickup selections.
Plus I have 2 minis.
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
Thinking about it, for $5K you could easily get an awesome mid-50s Jet and dispense with all the relic crap and probably still have change for a great amp.
Tommy.
I can build my own a LOT cheaper
I did not even notice that guard first time i seen it. I really like it, although i would remove the guard and maybe change the tuners. That said I would prob build something like that as a project and save a lot of cash.
paul
While traipsing around in NYC last week, I got the chance to play one of these.
It was red, but... Holy moly!
Way, way out of my league, but I had to hear it.
Plugged it into a Swart Spacetone Reverb amp. A nice combo.
It might be hard to make anything sound lousy through that amp, but... Holy moly!
Awesome neck. Super responsive guitar. The Grease Bucket thingy on the volume control does cool things to the F'trons.
It'll make any sound, from warm & woody jazz, to mean & kerrangly, to a wide range of twanginess.
I kind of doubt I'd by something this spendy, even if I could, but it was a stupefyingly fun guitar to play.
Here's the thing- at my previous stop, I scrounged up some proper black plastic to make mini-HB adapters for my skinny Ibanez. But after playing this La Carbonita, I'm now very inclined to get the Dremel out and put the mini's in my Tele.
Turn it into a La Facsimilta!
Perhaps the Skinny will get something from GFS instead.
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello