Esquiring Minds.

ultratwin · Post by **ultratwin** » Mon May 05, 2008 10:15 am

So I'm thinking about having the guys at Willows put together a thinline double bound Tele body(no f-holes, standard pickguard, B16 Bigsby) for a parts deal this summer, and was curious as to what you guys would do. No need for a poll, but I do have certain colors in mind. So here we go.

Option 1: Badass black with cream binding.

Option 2: Transparent Gretsch orange, backpainted gold guard(or cream):

Option 3: Forget the binding, do a desert sand/vintage blond deal, but keep the B16:

Option 4: Three(or two) tone Sunburst '62 faka-zoid on rosewood board:

Option 5: Surf Gweeeeen, b!*#h.

Sublimedo · Post by **Sublimedo** » Mon May 05, 2008 10:21 am

I am diggin the BUHCheesus on the black Dbl bounder with creamcheese pg

roachello · Post by **roachello** » Mon May 05, 2008 10:42 am

Opt 1! OREO COOKIE!!

roachello · Post by **roachello** » Mon May 05, 2008 10:45 am

Mario's dream tele is the Squire thinline. I love that pickguard! But BnW looks nice n tuxedo like.

Sublimedo · Post by **Sublimedo** » Mon May 05, 2008 10:47 am

I remember him saying that he likes it for it's YING-YANG-ness

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Mon May 05, 2008 1:34 pm

i found a double bound japan sunburst esquier at Cleveland guitar center on saturday. i was carrying it all around the store with me, fake rocking out on it. the neck on that fucking thing was amazing. big huge tele neck but total japan gloss city.

Justin J · Post by **Justin J** » Mon May 05, 2008 2:35 pm

Sublimedo wrote:I remember him saying that he likes it for it's YING-YANG-ness

victor wooten?

i say go for either the blonde or the black.

Post by **Mike** » Mon May 05, 2008 3:01 pm

I like that desert sand esquire a lot.

Do you use trem lots then Andi? Aren't Bigsby's a massive pain?

DGNR8 · Post by **DGNR8** » Mon May 05, 2008 3:15 pm

Of those, I like the black best, and then the blonde. But you can't really miss.

analogsystem · Post by **analogsystem** » Mon May 05, 2008 4:26 pm

I dig the gretsch orange with Bigsby action!

filtercap · Post by **filtercap** » Mon May 05, 2008 5:34 pm

Gretzky Orange!

Tho something about it makes me want to add a big cowboy brand, like it was burnt into the wood before the lacquer went on.

Sloan · Post by **Sloan** » Mon May 05, 2008 6:14 pm

OOORAAAAAAAAAANGGGEEEEEEE!.e

ElCapitan · Post by **ElCapitan** » Mon May 05, 2008 6:55 pm

black with bwb pickguard would look the sex.

mickie08 · Post by **mickie08** » Mon May 05, 2008 8:31 pm

double cream bound orange with the brown back. with a vintage style tele bridge pickup and a gretsch neck pickup. Bigsby for sure. If possible, bound and blocked ebony tele neck. That is the shit.. Gretsch style master knob on the low bout is awesome......

Chorlton · Post by **Chorlton** » Mon May 05, 2008 8:38 pm

fuck me they all look awesome. but at a push.... numero uno.

victorwootenlol

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Mon May 05, 2008 9:05 pm

that gretsch tele is sooo cool looking.

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Mon May 05, 2008 9:05 pm

Hey Ultra, that place does good work and for cheap. $150 US for a painted and bound tele body, AWESOME. If I liked teles I'd be all over that. I was still tempted when you had that extra shell pink body. Did you ever find out if he would do Jazzmasters with non-traditional routes?

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Mon May 05, 2008 9:09 pm

one question, how in the hell did he put the B5 on there with a standard tele bridge plate?

ultratwin · Post by **ultratwin** » Mon May 05, 2008 10:29 pm

jcyphe wrote: Did you ever find out if he would do Jazzmasters with non-traditional routes?

Man, I totally forgot about that part of the ol' discussion. I did talk to him about that last spring when considering a Jazzmaster XII, and he said he could "do a 1:1" in 2-piece alder, which would simply be a clone of whatever I brought in with desired routes. I'm guessing the price would be about what it was then.

mage wrote: one question, how in the hell did he put the B5 on there with a standard tele bridge plate?

Some call it the "notch method", basically grinding out string space, at the expense of a potentially bloodied palm if not executed properly.

ultratwin · Post by **ultratwin** » Mon May 05, 2008 11:44 pm

Mike wrote: Aren't Bigsby's a massive pain?

In many cases, yeah. I learned to string up the B5 with few hassles, giving the tail ends a nice twist ahead of time and using the capo at about the 7th fret to hold them all in place while tuning up. Staying in tune wasn't been as bad as I expected either, having a well-greased Jag bridge and nut did most of the work for me, despite occasional sticks.

Still, I gotta wobble my tone on a lot of arrpegios, and have only been disappointed at the B5's sharp-angle-induced overwhelming stiffness. I got interested in the B16 after seeing one guy on the tdpri deal with his rosewood Tele, seeing how the break angle was hardly different from a Jag, once the neck was shimmed about 2mm. Bridge option is another issue altogether, I've got the B16's compensated "bowtie bridge" setup in front of me and it's screaming stubborn intonation for life...Heavy strings with a Schaller roller saddles seem to be the way to go...We'll see.