Guitartichoke

The instrument and its mechanics. I'll be posting my own guitars over the years, reblogging ones I find interesting or beautiful, and posting some technical knowledge when I can.

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PRS S2 Standard 24 McCarty Tobacco Burst

[Source: The Music Zoo. Price: £751/$999]

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A few new shots of my new build, the Friendo Telecopy, featuring its case, bridge cover, and locking Kluson-style tuners.

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Fender Classic Player ‘50s Stratocaster // Friendo Telecopy // Fender Custom Shop 1962 Relic Stratocaster

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Finally finished! The Friendo Telecopy, built in the style of a 1965 Telecaster with a rosewood neck and painted matching headstock.

Neck: Musikraft rosewood, stainless frets, 1965 specs

Body: MJT alder

Electronics: Tone Man harness, DiMarzio Area T pickups

Hardware: Gotoh SD91 MG-T tuners, Glendale saddles, Schaller strap locks, Fender True Vintage for everything else

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My #1 guitar, a Gibson Chambered 58 Reissue. This is #19 of the first 40 made. It is extremely UV faded (especially evident on the back, where you can see that the deep cherry has faded to light orange) and various parts have been replaced over time - some for convenience, some for necessity.

I’ve owned this guitar for nearly a decade. It’s been to every show I’ve ever played, and I’ll never sell it. It’s comfortable and familiar in a way no other guitar is, and playing it after playing something else for a while feels like coming home. That last pic is a photo of me playing it back in 2009, I think.

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This Fender Stratosonic Dove I climbed it’s way to the top of our weekly Top 10 Used Guitar list! You don’t see one of these everyday, but you can get a closer look at this one in-store and online now at The Music Zoo!

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Parts are starting to arrive for my Tele build! The Musikraft neck and MJT body should be finishing up shortly. Everything pictured so far is Fender (mostly Pure Vintage / Vintage Reissue parts, wherever possible) except for: 1) the tuners, which are Gotoh SD91 MG-T; 2) the pickup, which is a DiMarzio Area T; and 3) the bridge saddles, which are Glendale Groovy 60s. The decal arrived as well, but I’m probably going to have it remade by somebody else - the gold isn’t metallic and the whole thing is about 30% too large. We’ll call this one a prototype (that I may use if it’s still better than the other one).

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Gibson Les Paul Vintage Mahogany (now known as the Studio Faded)

Gibson Les Paul Traditional

Gibson Les Paul Chambered 58 Reissue

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Gretsch G6120T Chet Atkins

Gretsch G6131 Jet Firebird

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My wall of micro amps 

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Joe Strummer

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That Esquire is doooooope

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G&L USA Comanche

Really cool guitar that I didn’t spend enough time with. It wasn’t Stratty enough for me in my old Strat phase, and I didn’t really give it a fair shake. I’d love a chance to go back and do it over, because this thing was really cool.

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Sold off some of my unused guitar parts over the last week or so and made some good coin, so I bought the rest of the parts to finish my Tele build! I guess the specs are final now!

The concept is essentially a 1965 Tele with a rosewood neck and some (hopefulyl tasteful) quality of life modernizations like noiseless pickups, strap locks, and so on.

MJT body: alder, yellowed Sonic Blue, Closet Classic, moderate checking

Musikraft neck: mid ‘60s spec, rosewood shaft and fretboard, stainless frets, matching painted headstock

Hardware: Fender ‘60s bridge plate with Glendale compensated grooved saddles, Gotoh SD91 MG-T tuners, Schaller strap lock buttons

Electronics: DiMarzio Area T, Toneman harness (Bourns pots, Grigsby switch, Switchcraft jack, cloth wire, .047uf PIO cap

Case: Fender logo G&G black tolex/orange plush

All other small parts - screws, knobs, switch tip, bridge cover, control plate, ferrules, string tree, etc - are Fender (Pure Vintage where possible).