Who Wants To See My Fat

[ManWithGas]

As usual the clickbait has worked and here you are and my apologies to @Holden Afart

Okay, today's installment is a rare beast and continuing to build site content.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Clicked on it; despite the clickbait Teles are sooooooooo Very nice!

 

[Fireproof]

Very cool! Maybe one of these days you can afford a newer guitar without as many scratches and dings on it.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Oooh that balance weight on the strap button is a great idea! Never seen that.

 

[Fireproof]

Oooh that balance weight on the strap button is a great idea! Never seen that.

Yeah - I’ve seen strap weights that you can fit on to the end of your strap (had a neck-heavy SG once), but not one that mounts on the guitar like that.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Yeah - I’ve seen strap weights that you can fit on to the end of your strap (had a neck-heavy SG once), but not one that mounts on the guitar like that.

Yep. SGs have this problem fairly frequently. I've heard of people putting weight in the control cavity as well.

 

[spawnofthesith]

Thats hawt

 

[Sleezy E]

Very cool! Maybe one of these days you can afford a newer guitar without as many scratches and dings on it.

This was my exact reaction back in my gigging days when another guitarist would show up with a relic'd guitar... poor guy can't afford nice things.

Haha

 

[DrewJD82]

That’s f*cking SWEET!!!!

That’s absolutely part of the reason I LOVE playing vintage Fenders, there’s so many small (sometimes large) variations in the guitars from back then that you occasionally come across one that’s totally unique. Like the late 50’s Strats when they started playing with the neck shape/body contours. I played a ‘59 Strat at Gruhn’s in Nashville that wasn’t like any other Strat I’ve ever played. They had a couple killer early 60’s Strats that I loved, which is rare because I generally don’t dig rosewood boards on Strats.

 

[Holden Afart]

That's a pretty bad ass looking machine!

 

[ManWithGas]

That’s f*cking SWEET!!!!

That’s absolutely part of the reason I LOVE playing vintage Fenders, there’s so many small (sometimes large) variations in the guitars from back then that you occasionally come across one that’s totally unique. Like the late 50’s Strats when they started playing with the neck shape/body contours. I played a ‘59 Strat at Gruhn’s in Nashville that wasn’t like any other Strat I’ve ever played. They had a couple killer early 60’s Strats that I loved, which is rare because I generally don’t dig rosewood boards on Strats.

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Looks 'like' a 58 Strat? (single ply guard with a maple neck is the giveaway unless it's a bitsa guitar)

A 59 'normally' has a 3 ply guard. Maybe it's super early 59 like January?

A very nice machine when you can find them. The main transition being from swamp ash fully over to alder and the first use of a '3' color burst. I hope you had a lotta fun with it.

 

[DrewJD82]

Looks 'like' a 58 Strat? (single ply guard with a maple neck is the giveaway unless it's a bitsa guitar)

A 59 'normally' has a 3 ply guard. Maybe it's super early 59 like January?

A very nice machine when you can find them. The main transition being from swamp ash fully over to alder and the first use of a '3' color burst. I hope you had a lotta fun with it.

Funny, cuz I wrote ‘58 first, but for some reason had it in my head that they didn’t start the 3-color burst until ’59. It was most likely a ‘58.