tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47240361435988363952024-02-06T22:25:47.548-08:00Grail GuitarsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724036143598836395.post-89776126142639824852015-03-27T08:18:00.001-07:002015-03-27T08:18:15.044-07:00Mesa Rectoverb 25 with a twist <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Couldn't resist a demo of the new Mesa Rectoverb 25. A phenomenal amp which many consider to be aimed at the 'metal' end of the market, but this model has great Fender inspired cleans on channel 1, with a 'pushed' switch that adds transparent overdrive, as you can hear below..<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724036143598836395.post-54598800339811905632015-01-04T03:51:00.002-08:002015-01-04T03:59:31.940-08:00FOR SALE > 'Mothers Milk' Strat <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: start;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If you're here you probably like vintage guitars and the look of well played Strats..</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">On offer is a Hendrix style guitar in vintage white with a <o:p></o:p></span>Tortoishell pickguard (but looks equally great with Mint Green)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">This is a professionally built custom guitar using a 1999 USA Standard Body finished in White, which has aged naturally over the last 15 years to a light cream (see reverse of body where the backplate has been removed). </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The guitar is fitted with a Bare Knuckle ‘Mothers Milk’ single coil set with aged covers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Neck – WD, Rosewood board, 7.25 Radius, vintage frets, aged nitro lacquer<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">Tuners – </span><span lang="EN-US">Kluson style split posts, aged nickel<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is not a guitar made from a bunch of cheap parts, and I am not intending to pass this guitar off as an original Fender. The body, neck and hardware have been specifically selected based on quality, and to replicate an authentic looking guitar from 50 years ago - It should be compared to ‘Custom Shop’ guitars.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">If you have any questions about the parts, build, finish etc. please ask.</span></span></span><br />
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Had a good think about pedals today, not least to remind myself how much money I have invested in these over the years :-/<br />
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Above you can see my two gig ready boards, and a larger board I use for experimenting.<br />
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Left - my <i>Southern Rock</i> board - overdrives, boost and delay<br />
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Right - my <i>Solo Beatles</i> board - transparent drive and chorus<br />
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I'm big fan of Catlinbread and Barber pedals<br />
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Which is my favourite? - hard to say but I am always amazed by the Catalinbread Dirty Little Secret with my Fender Princeton - here's why...<br />
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Playing around in GarageBand over the weekend experimenting with parts for Consider Me - from Nashville Season 1. (written by Ashley Monroe<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px; text-align: center;"> and </span>Brendan Benson).<br />
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In this cover I have used the online vocal by the excellent Ciara Salloum. All other instruments recorded live into GarageBand.<br />
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I was lusting after this guitar for most of last year. Finally saved enough to buy it. Someone beat me to it :-(<br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Originally shipped with a modern maple neck, this has been
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The standard white pickguard and knobs have been replaced with
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So I present a stunning and all original Fender
</span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Crafted in Japan</i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Telecaster Custom - </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">a real rock-n-roll
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you fat rhythm sounds you might not expect from a Telecaster, and the bridge
pickup keeps those classic, searing tones intact. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Individual volume and tone
knobs for each pickup further enhance the tonal range of the 72 Tele Custom. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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frets, perfect for chord work or big bends. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The red tortoishell pick guard adds a twist to the
black ash body is a rare factory fited option.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with all Japanese Fenders, the guitar is extremely well built, plays like a dream and
are becoming <u>increasingly rare</u>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">See
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There's nothing better than kicking back with an old Telecaster, and I have been using these jam tracks to get in a little practice over the last few weeks. <br />
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I'd love to see some video responses in the style of...<br />
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Waylon Jennings<br />
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Vince Gill<br />
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Merle Haggard
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Troy Crook
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Allman Brothers
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A bit of a diversion to making my own great guitars, I came across this and had to add it to the collection.<br />
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Built on a standard 1967 specification, Alder body, hand wound pickups and large C shape neck, the twist is the addition of 4-way switching and a 10" radius on the fingerboard.<br />
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First impressions of the amp are great - much richer and mellower sounding than my stock Princeton Re-Issue. Huge amount of bass - in fact I will probably need to tweak this circuit in the future to calm it down a bit. That also goes for the reverb - its pretty unusable above 4 or 5.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724036143598836395.post-47609433983446195552013-05-14T02:44:00.002-07:002013-05-14T02:48:45.787-07:00Blue or Turquoise?I had some good feedback on the Lake Placid Blue guitar that I put together earlier in the year. Ultimately I sold the guitar as it wasn't close enough to the colour I was looking for.<br />
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I have since done some research on how to achieve an authentic look using blue, and discovered that I am favoring Ocean Turquoise such as the examples from the Fender Custom shop shown here (though they look pretty close to Lake Placid Blue to me?)<br />
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Having said that when I have shown these pics to Fender dealers they suspect these are actually custom colours that have been specially mixed to emulate how Ocean Turquoise would have aged over 40 years. They look nothing like a new Ocean Turquoise guitar.<br />
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The search for the perfect 'blue' continues. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724036143598836395.post-89152128368105446852013-03-26T10:42:00.004-07:002013-03-26T10:45:16.028-07:00Keeping It Simple > Ditto Looper <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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So I completed the wiring on the Princeton clone today, having spent many hours over the past few weeks fault finding and testing the power supply circuits.<br />
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I would love to report some smokin' amp tone straight off the bat... unfortunately all I got was some actual smoke :-) from an overheating power supply resistor which probably indicates a short somewhere.<br />
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So, back fault finding again. Pics of the completed (if not yet working) amp .....<br />
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I am using NOS GE 6V6G tubes<br />
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Also a couple of cosmetic enhancements. I managed to find a UK supplier of Fender brown barrel knobs which I feel will look better with the brown tolex than the blackface skirted knobs.<br />
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and fitted a nice chunky leather handle<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724036143598836395.post-76505301259825443572013-02-02T08:26:00.000-08:002013-02-02T08:26:23.518-08:00Lake Placid Blue - snog, marry or avoid?<b id="internal-source-marker_0.22977419360540807"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I recently had the opportunity to demo the one of the latest American Vintage Telecasters and was really attracted to the striking Lake Placid Blue ’64 model. On the face of it a great guitar that sounds fantastic – and so it should be at the price. I couldn’t help feeling though that overall quality was not what I had expected (e.g. noticeable gap down one side of the neck and socket) and I was suspicious of some of the marketing blurb – ‘flash coat nitro’??</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I left the shop convinced that I could easily build a higher quality guitar for half the price…. ‘Made in England’.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I favour lightly ‘aged’ guitars so I set about sourcing a nitro finished body in Lake Placid Blue and after a conversation with Paul at Retro169, I had a nice looking body delivered 5 weeks later.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Next the choice of neck – Historic early 60’s model – which I set about aging myself, and to give the guitar a twist I decided on a tortoishell pickguard rather than the obvious white.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sometimes I build a guitar around a set of pickups or vibe that I am trying to create. I have not worked with blue before and don’t want the guitar to look like Frankenstein, so this time am pausing to consider the relative parts and how well they visually integrate before sourcing appropriate hardware. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I would love your feedback…..</span></b><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724036143598836395.post-76587168622321821992013-01-17T11:00:00.001-08:002013-01-17T11:00:10.567-08:00Video Clips now Uploaded<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724036143598836395.post-20079907441192954762013-01-13T04:25:00.002-08:002013-01-13T04:25:21.128-08:00Recording This Week <br />
I'll be recording some HD demos of the guitar collection this week - watch this space..<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724036143598836395.post-88568072157318389642013-01-07T03:59:00.004-08:002013-01-07T03:59:54.278-08:00Mothers Milk Strat addedStrat based around Mothers Milk single coil set from BKP<br />
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Background reading before commencing on my build<br />
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<a href="http://blog.monkbam.com/2012/02/27/fender-princeton-reverb-diy-build-new-readerpart-1/">MonkBam Blog</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.jeangodbout.com/princeton/reverb-amp.html">Jeangodbout Blog</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My #1 guitar - a 50s / 60s hybrid in Sonic Blue</span></div>
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Some Grail Guitars that will be featured soon</div>
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Finally I am getting round to photographing and demonstrating the guitars I have created this year. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0