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I know there are some keen muso's out there in Maxwell land...........I want to see your favourite squeeze if possible.

My number one:

Me eight string lap steel...25" scale length, custom made horseshoe pickup. Can overdrive any amp on the planet or sound as sweet as an angel dancing along the strings...designed by me, built by Rance White at Lazy River Guitars.

Oh yeah! ......she's a beauty!

Here's a few quick pics of my old P.O.S frankenstein guitar, posing with my favorite amp...

JD, that last one says it all...nice shot and wonderful setup.

Glebe...what can I say to the CLASSIC?...but rock on My Man...!!!

Can't beat an Esquire big man.

JD, I take it you don't feel the need for a tone control? Cool amp......

Yah...no tone...less wire, less pots, less chance of cold solder joints; it's a nice hardtail ash body with good pickups (70s SG and Texas Specials) ...so it's got a nice tone to begin with. I switch back to using stamped saddles sometimes if I feel like I want it sounding thinner..

Me, I couldn't play without my tone pot.......it produces a better 'wha' effect than my blumin' Morley!
It's a very cool blue JD....... .....Ibanez neck?

My other tele.......all my guitars have had their electrics buggerered about with........hardly anything is stock.

The blue is House of Kolors Stratto Blue Shimrin (no idea why I remember that), which I'd used to paint a 302...had some left in the gun, so thought, why not paint the guitar too. You're right, the neck is an Ibanez, which came from a bad strat knockoff I had in high shcool...called I think, a Roadstar. The body came from a Schechter, which had dual humbuckers mounted in a metal (?!?) pickguard before I re-did it, and I went through a number of strat and tele necks before going back to that old Ibanez - the radius is just right. But it's old and getting pretty bad by now and it will have to be re-fretted sometime. So I've got bits and pieces of other guitars lying around, but this is the only one I've really used, for many years.

Seems like you're sort of headed in the other direction - how many have you got? What besides teles, I wonder? The action looks pretty high on those two, btw...I think that would drive me nuts. Also - nice drawing on the wall in that first pic.

I recently had this Vester tele, until I gave it to my nephew last month:


So now it's just these two on top of my Esquire:

The red one is 'pre-op'.

I could never get to grips with those flattish radius boards.......nice old Ibanez quality, shame about the profile.
Medium high action, strings are 11-54.........the Esquire's action is certainly idiosyncratic but that's where she sings like a trooper.

Oh, I bet it sounds good, I just have never been able to use that type of setup... or narrow, roundy necks; with one of those tele necks, I felt all bunched up and was always rolling the e's over the edge, so out the window it went. I'm usually on EB 10-46s here, but I haven't been playing too much in the last few years. I hit a point where I was not pleased at all with what I was coming up with...seemed just to be nothing more than a rehash of older stuff, so I quit trying to play out and stepped away a bit. Been back to it a bit more recently though, so hopefully that will have worked itself out...

You guys and your tele's. I was debating for the longest about buying a tele or a les paul. I ended up going with the les paul because the neck just felt that much better to me. I've never been a fan of fender necks and how round the back is as well as their fret height.

I'll post some pics of my guitar and my array of heads later tonight. I've got a sovtek mig 50, peavey 5150 and a peavey penta at home currently with a marshall slant vintage and a 5150 box cab.

Good looking gear fellas. I like what I see.

JCAddy wrote:You guys and your tele's.

.....yeah we're generally a tad too enamoured with them.....

Paul's look great, I've had several [but everytime I've had one I've ended up selling them all too soon].......guess I just love 'twang' too much!