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I did buy one or two of the Teles to complete a rainbow, but I've only just got round to taking a picture:

now i want ice cream.

TELE PRIDE

i was iffy on the black fade...i generally don't dig the recent weird Fender bursts and fades, but seeing it next to the pink paisley one brought out the modernity in context and i like it now. the blue-into-black American Pro reverse burst still makes me uneasy in a way i can't quite define, though.

i actually had some rainbow sherbet last night and thought of this post.

i've been rotating guitars in and out while testing the newly completed setup, and thought it'd be fun to get a picture of all the electric guitars that are currently working.
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1968 Gibson ES-335
2012 Guild Newark Street Aristocrat (FMIC)
2009 Tokai Love Rock Les Paul Standard--i forget the model number
2009 Tokai Love Rock LSS-88 Les Paul Special singlecut
2004 Gretsch 5259 Electromatic Special Jet
2007 Gretsch 5235 Pro Jet w/retrofitted Gretsch/Tokiwa Dynasonic pickups, Bigsby B3C tailpiece, and Bigsby "rocking bar bridge"
"the Strat of Theseus": CIJ 1956 Stratocaster neck, 90s StewMac body, Fender hardware, Fender '54 Strat pickups
2019 Fender Lead II

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2019 Squier Classic Vibe Jazzmaster w/Fender American Pro tremolo
2005 Epiphone '62 SG with Maestro Vibrola

there are 4 guitars in various stages of project progress:
00s Gretsch Electromatic Double Jet w/TV Jones Filtertron pickups, gets bar bridge and vintage B5 Bigsby
"Kondor": Kent body/pickguard with Hondo II neck, Kent and Guyatone pickups, repro Kay tremolo
1960s Hopf Twisty II: gets original neck and Saturn 62 pickups
parts 1962 Fender Duo Sonic with 22.5" Mini Strat neck and Duncan Antiquity Duo Sonic pickups: wood removal in PU cavity and replacement pickguard to relocate treble pickup to vintage correct position

also 3 acoustic guitars (Eastman AC512 Englemann/mahogany 00, 1973 Epiphone dreadnought, 00s Alvarez jumbo 12-string with Duncan Acoustic tube being installed) and two basses, a fretless Fender Jazz Bass and a new Squier CV Mustang bass.

after i finish the current projects i want to do a Double Jet with a Powertron at the neck and a Supertron in the bridge, some kind of parts guitar using a Höfner Galaxie neck and 3 Höfner "staple" mini-humbuckers (i basically have 35% of a Galaxie and will probably put it together with a Jazzmaster body which goes with the scale length), and a Telecaster with, shall we say unusual pickups, that'll give me everything i like about Teles and eliminate everything i don't. it's not likely any of that will happen for awhile though other than the SuperPowered Double Jet which i could do just by swapping pickups in a current production model, though if i got a bug up my ass about the Tele i could order parts and have that together over a weekend.

now that it's finally shipped i can tell y'all that the guitar i've been dreaming about since 1970 will be here on Friday. it's a Gretsch 6136-1958 Shephen Stills signature model White Falcon...vintage Falcon construction could be somewhat whimsical from year to year and even instrument to instrument, and Stephen's has a variant of Gretsch's "trestle" bracing which is different to the bracing on other most vintage and reissue WFs. this is the guitar he played on the electric disc of 4 Way Street (except "Southern Man" where he played an ES-355) and with Manassas. it only happened because i had to take a ton of money out of an otherwise irrelevant 401k (i have no resources and can never retire) to get a new used car and thought "what's another $3k between friends?" i'm getting old, and i figured if i didn't go for it now i'd never do it before i die. so i get to have at least one thing that i wanted when i was a hungry teenager. well, two...i got to live in San Francisco. this photo is from the Music Go Round Albuquerque website...i'll get better pictures when it comes home.

dubkitty wrote:now that it's finally shipped i can tell y'all that the guitar i've been dreaming about since 1970 will be here on Friday. it's a Gretsch 6136-1958 Shephen Stills signature model White Falcon...vintage Falcon construction could be somewhat whimsical from year to year and even instrument to instrument, and Stephen's has a variant of Gretsch's "trestle" bracing which is different to the bracing on other most vintage and reissue WFs. this is the guitar he played on the electric disc of 4 Way Street (except "Southern Man" where he played an ES-355) and with Manassas. it only happened because i had to take a ton of money out of an otherwise irrelevant 401k (i have no resources and can never retire) to get a new used car and thought "what's another $3k between friends?" i'm getting old, and i figured if i didn't go for it now i'd never do it before i die. so i get to have at least one thing that i wanted when i was a hungry teenager. well, two...i got to live in San Francisco. this photo is from the Music Go Round Albuquerque website...i'll get better pictures when it comes home.

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[SALIVARY GLANDS ACTIVATED]

it's on the UPS truck, which i can watch on their app as the driver meanders around the downtown Charlottesville area, am i going up the walls? why. yes. it was delayed from Friday...apparently UPS thinks the sensible route to here from Norfolk is a detour to Laurel, Maryland.

Oh wow that is beautiful. I hope it's everything you've dreamt of!

Please put me in your will for that White Falcon. If unable, I'll also accept an ES-355 (as a consolation prize).

it's here. my mind is boggled. it's even better than the Falcon i played back on the late 00s. the longer it's here the more impressed i am.

dubkitty wrote:it's here. my mind is boggled. it's even better than the Falcon i played back on the late 00s. the longer it's here the more impressed i am.

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Nice! That falcon is a beauty

That is so cool!!! Beautiful guitar

i feel incredibly fortunate to have stumbled across an example that was 20% cheaper than the going rate for no good reason. thank you, Music Go Round Albuquerque.