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Post by aj1169 on Apr 12, 2007 12:43:19 GMT -7
Has anyone ever played a guitar made of pine? I see Glendale guitars is offering some Tele style pine bodies modeled after the original broadcasters and esquires. How would pine differ in tone from something like alder or ash? Just wondering.
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Post by oldgoat on Apr 12, 2007 16:26:37 GMT -7
Haven't played one yet, but am about two weeks from the one I'm building being finished. I'll let you know how it turns out. If I'm feeling especially cheeky I may post a clip or two.
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Post by BW on Apr 12, 2007 17:27:43 GMT -7
I saw an old style Precision Bass...well, I GUESS it was a bass, it had THREE strings (no 'G') that Dale built for Pete Anderson, Jerry Amalfitano wound the pickup. Anyway, it was a pine body. Didn't hear it plugged in but man wuz it cool lookin'....
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Post by propellr on May 10, 2007 11:34:55 GMT -7
I thought pine wasn't a tone wood, to the point that guys made fun of the idea--
"Your guitar sounds really sappy-- what's it made of? PINE?"
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Post by oldgoat on Jul 2, 2007 9:48:24 GMT -7
Got my pine body tele in about a month ago. I held off posting just to make sure my initial reaction was right.
Well after a month my reaction is still OMG!!!!!!! ;D Played it with my regular band, had two auditions with it, plugged it into everything from twins to tiny terrors Maz Sr's and Jr's, and a marshall or two. This is the best electric I have ever played, hands down. The pine gives a wonderful warm mid tone without sacrificing the tele cut and bite. And its remarkably resonant. I'll fire up the camera in a few days and post a photo or two. The only problem is that its so good, it makes all my other guitars feel like dead hunks of wood.
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Post by propellr on Jul 2, 2007 11:39:57 GMT -7
Red Rover, Red Rover, send Gibsons right over.
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Post by sonicgator on Jul 2, 2007 12:00:01 GMT -7
Guitar Mill has great prices on Pine Tele bodies and seems to get very favorable reviews. Pine Tele's are super-light and have great tone. If there is a downside, it's that the wood is quite soft and will dent very easily...but who cares, right? Since everyone is in to the Relic thing nowadays anyway!
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Post by billyguitar on Jul 2, 2007 12:40:08 GMT -7
I want one with a big knot in it, like the old Gretsches.
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Post by benttop (Steve) on Jul 2, 2007 14:08:19 GMT -7
Fascinating! I would never have imagined Pine as a tone wood. Now I want one - a nice light Tele seems to be something I can always put to good use around here.
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Post by Matt H. on Jul 2, 2007 14:31:37 GMT -7
Got my pine body tele in about a month ago. I held off posting just to make sure my initial reaction was right. Well after a month my reaction is still OMG!!!!!!! ;D Played it with my regular band, had two auditions with it, plugged it into everything from twins to tiny terrors Maz Sr's and Jr's, and a marshall or two. This is the best electric I have ever played, hands down. The pine gives a wonderful warm mid tone without sacrificing the tele cut and bite. And its remarkably resonant. I'll fire up the camera in a few days and post a photo or two. The only problem is that its so good, it makes all my other guitars feel like dead hunks of wood. What specific type of pine is it? White , yellow, Knots or not?
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Post by highway61south on Jul 2, 2007 21:25:41 GMT -7
I have no experience with pine but I do have a jazzmaster clone made out of solid spruce that sounds great.....Sterling
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Post by taswegian on Jul 2, 2007 22:54:08 GMT -7
We have an indigenous tree here called Houn Pine that they used to make grand pianos out of in the early days. Apparently it sounds incredible as a guitar body. It is protected now and very expensive but I'd love a guitar made out of it just to own a Tasmanian wood guitar.
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Post by billyguitar on Jul 3, 2007 13:55:00 GMT -7
Tasmanian wood covered with Tasmanian Devil fur. Now that's the ticket!
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Post by taswegian on Jul 3, 2007 20:34:06 GMT -7
;D
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Post by terlinguart on Jul 4, 2007 16:54:12 GMT -7
Oldgoat, where did you get your pine body?
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Post by oldgoat on Jul 5, 2007 12:08:40 GMT -7
Oldgoat, where did you get your pine body? Got the body from and a bunch of the parts from Dale at Glendale Guitars www.glendaleguitars.com/. A beautiful piece of wood, no knots, just nice tight grain pattern you would expect from a normal ash or alder body. Not sure what type of pine it is, I know Dale had some sugar pine ones so my guess would be that or white pine. I'll ask Dale if he remembers what type it was.
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Post by dave on Jul 5, 2007 12:24:54 GMT -7
I want one with a big knot in it, like the old Gretsches. It ain't a tele, it ain't pine, but its got a knot!! One of my '80s kitchen table specials in Koa..
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Post by taswegian on Jul 5, 2007 17:02:19 GMT -7
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Post by sonicgator on Jul 5, 2007 17:35:21 GMT -7
Very nice Taz. When I was in New Zealand, I played a Langcaster Strat copy made with 35,000 year old Swamp Kauri wood. This one didn't have the funky headstock like they now use, but rather had a Fender copy and Kinman pickups. I'm still kicking myself over missing out on that one...it was a steal at $1500 US. www.langcaster.com
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Post by taswegian on Jul 5, 2007 17:42:30 GMT -7
Wow!!!!!
They are amazing looking. I'd love to get one with some Amber hidden away in it. That's very cool.
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Post by oldgoat on Jul 5, 2007 20:43:42 GMT -7
Here we go, the Teddycaster (named after my son). It's a "1 9/16" thick pine body from Glendale Guitars. Used heat treated steel saddles, cold rolled steel vintage bridge-plate, "Grip-O-Matic" Aluminum chrome plated knobs, Machined jack cup and string tree all from Glendale. Area T bridge and neck pickups. Matt Brewster of 30th Street Guitars copied my '81 tele neck, but gave it a soft V shape and bigger frets. Pat Clark put a super thin layer of nitrocellulose on the neck and body to let everything resonate and also so it would wear-in nice. As I said before its beautifully light and amazingly resonant. So resonant that it puts my PRS to shame. The tone is beautiful plugged or unplugged. Its so good I really don't want to overdrive the amp with it because it messes with the tone. ;D I'll be quiet now because I'll just go on babbling about this amazing guitar. Better that I just go and play this thing.
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Post by billyguitar on Jul 6, 2007 10:22:17 GMT -7
I like that a lot!
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Post by dixiechicken on Jul 6, 2007 11:47:13 GMT -7
It should perhaps not really be such a big surprise. Spruce at least is superb and much sought after tonewood for accoustic guitars.
I do not know if pine shares the same musical properties, but it doesnt seem totally unlikely either.
Cheers: Dixiechicken
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Post by terlinguart on Jul 6, 2007 19:51:23 GMT -7
Man thats a georgeous guitar Oldgoat. I may just have to build one.
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Post by skydog958 on Jul 7, 2007 12:19:02 GMT -7
There's a pine-bodied parts tele on the 'Bay with Voodoo pickups. $650 out the door...
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Post by Telemanic on Jul 8, 2007 12:38:17 GMT -7
I just got a Vintage style bridge for my Amr. Stnd Tele, from Dale at Glendale guitars. I was thinking that it was the heavy alder and thick poly finish that was stifling the tone of this guitar, but i am just blown by the improvement!!! Dale said those AMR. Stdrd thick bridge plates were tone suckers, but man, .......... unbelievable difference. The guitar resonates, twang, etc. A while back i replaced the skinny toneless neck with a beefy allparts RW, just got a Lollar Vintage PU, and now with his Bridge and saddles this thing sounds and plays like a masterbuilt! Now jones'n for one of his Pine bodies!! Thanx for the review on it!!
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