Check this out, mates...Ian Moore creating some great power pop with a surprising partscaster...Strat body and Esquire neck (i.e. a pre-Tele Esquire)... Hey guitar techs, how they do dat, eh?
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Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2018 3:26 pm
by cur
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Any pics of the guitar in question?
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2018 4:55 pm
by NickS
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Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2018 11:18 pm
by paul_
It's called The Bastard.
It's not actually a pre-Tele Esquire neck, it's a '55. Pre-Tele (or Broadcaster) Esquires didn't have truss rods.* The Strat body and it's parts are mostly '62.
I'm unsure as to whether the question is as open/shut as it appears, but I guess they did a tiny bit of routing? Likely to the body.
Ian Moore has since had replicas of this guitar made (physically, not visually) with reissue/licensed parts.
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*During the Broadcaster R&D phase Leo Fender had all these big-band country guitarists pitching in... after they complained that it didn't have a truss rod, Leo once took one of those early all-rock-maple necks and laid it across the arms of a hotel chair, then climbed up onto the neck and stood on it with his full weight (he was a stout and pudgy fellow) saying "see, you don't need a truss rod! This baby will never break!"
The guitarists all said "yeah, now take it in the luggage compartment of a bus to a different climate, at which point it warps and you get dead frets and action problems."
Truss rod thankfully made it onto the final 2-pickup version. String trees also came to the design of Fender necks courtesy of those dudes' input.
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2018 11:30 am
by sunshiner
Some strat bodies have "ears" in the neck pocket pocket that are said to allow installation of a Tele neck
