YOUR Signature Model

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Re: YOUR Signature Model

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paologregorio wrote:I have a couple of them. . . . I'm thinking a double neck WB would be cool though. :D
Big Red's Specs:
Vintage 60s profile, bound headstock,
full-width inlays
medium tall frets
bone nut
25" scale
10" fretboard radius
24 frets
Mastery Bridge
Accent VB with handle bent upwards for more travel
Vintage style, slot-topped Kluson tuners
Vintage TRC
clear, back-painted guards
vintage knobs
hot 12K neck toaster with Alnico 3 magnets for a warmer, sweeter sound
hotter 14K bridge toaster with Alnico 3 magnets for a warmer, sweeter sound.

Blue Boy Specs:
Vintage 60s profile, checkered binding bound headstock,
checkered binding, double bound body
full-width, crushed pearl inlays
medium tall frets
9 1/2" radius
24.75 scale
21 frets
Mastery Bridge (new!)
Accent VB with handle bent upwards for more travel
Vintage style, slot-topped Kluson tuners
Glen Frey, clear, silver back-painted TRC
clear, back-painted silver guards
vintage black/silver oven knobs
hot 12K neck toaster with Alnico 3 magnets for a warmer, sweeter sound
hotter 14K bridge toaster with Alnico 3 magnets for a warmer, sweeter sound.

The only other thing I would add to either guitar is a sustain block though the MAstery has done wonders for sustain on the guitar(s), but heck, I've been told by a couple builders those can actually be press-fit in under the bridge through the bridge p/up rout, so I'll prolly try it. :D
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...why yes, I suppose I do have a double bound guitar fetish...

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Re: YOUR Signature Model

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Simple - I guess it would be called a 670/12MB (a 3 pickup 660/12 in Montezuma Brown).
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My signature model would be essentially a 360/12C63 with the following additions/changes:
F hole
Thin top
12-saddle bridge
No bass cut cap

Available in Fireglo, Jetglo, Monty Brown, Blueburst and Greenglo. :P :mrgreen:
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I would already have been using either the Mitch Easter or Peter Buck signature models.
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Here's the simple part:
12K toaster in the bridge.
Ric HB in the neck with a toaster cover on it.
Vintage black w/ white line hex knobs.

Here's the hard part:
Rickenbacker reissuing the 480.
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These two were my dreams for quite some time. Paul made the dreams come true last year. Note signature on the PG on the Tumon Bay Acoustic 12. I do have a rough idea of a bound 360 I'd like to add someday in the future, but I'm pretty happy with what I have now:
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Mine would be a custom 430,

But with a thicker Solid body and neck through construction like a 620.

Jetglo and or Burgundy with white and chrome trim, three pick ups and an R tail (which none of these 430/250 types ever had)...

Kinda cross between a 350 and a 620 but with the 430 shape...

Cool to dream! :P :P
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YOUR Signature Model

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paologregorio wrote: Big Red's Specs:
25" scale
I didn't realize that Davis Guitar Works altered the scale, from the standard 24.75" when he customized Big Red and added the bigger frets .... cool 8)
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Lessee - a 360 or 360F, with the wider neck, that the 650s and 660s have. Pickups - Hi-Gains. Get rid of the 5th control, and the Rick-o-Sound (I've never used them on my 360s). If you REALLY want to make me smile, make it a 7-string. but with a neck a bit wider than what a 660 has (I'm not a fan of the "cram 12 strings onto a 6-string neck" concept that's used for the 360/12, 330/12, and 620/12). It ain't gonna be no jangle machine! By the same token, it wouldn't be your standard ho-hum, 'bucker loaded super-strat 7-string, looks or sound-wise.
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Just one signature model?
Lets see...there would be the 4381JV (bass guitar version of the 381)...a 4004CiiJV with 4001S body wings, 3 pickups (one extra by the bridge like the LK and 4002)and full width fingerboard inlays...I guess that would mean a bound neck as well :mrgreen: ...a 4003JV with no pickguard, control cavity in the rear like a 4004...4004CiiFLJV with 3 pickups as mentioned before...of course these would all come in 4 and 5 string versions and have 22 frets.

Boy, I'm really dreaming, ain't I? :lol: :wink:
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360-12 WB Mapleglo with black trim and a trapeze tailpiece.
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360/12 Mapleglo with 12-saddle bridge, 7.4k Toasters, two mono inputs, silver tolex case.
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A 370/12, stock dimensions, but with:

Hand-rubbed, walnut (transparent) stained body & neck, thin enough to let the grain show.
Compressor circuit a la the McGuinn model.
Switching to isolate each of the three pups as needed.
Separate volume controls for each pup.
Binding in ebony instead of white.
Black TRC and scratch plates.
Brushed silver knobs and hardware (no gold or chrome).

And of course, my signature on the scratch plate.
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Re: YOUR Signature Model

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Hummmmmm . . . how about some sort of 360 Gold Top?

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a Baritone guitar , strung EBGDAE .... shaped like an Astro-kit (but actually built at RIC,not a DIY)with R Tailpiece, Toaster pickups, Vintage Brown knobs, finished in that gorgeous Tobacco burst, like that one-off 4003 a couple years ago, and gold hardware,pickguard and trc. I don't ask for much but hey it's MY signature edition, right :mrgreen:
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