Wait, what?? Bernard Butler + Maple neck Electric XII???
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 1:37 pm
Just came across this photo...never seen an Electric XII like this one...
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Wait, what?? Bernard Butler + Maple neck Electric XII???
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Re: Wait, what?? Bernard Butler + Maple neck Electric XII???
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 1:48 pm
I like it!
Re: Wait, what?? Bernard Butler + Maple neck Electric XII???
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 8:02 pm
mega rare. Looks great.
Re: Wait, what?? Bernard Butler + Maple neck Electric XII???
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 8:50 pm
that's super interesting looking.
also im a bit curious what songs he would used it on. i'm not the biggest suede fan but my friend is.
also im a bit curious what songs he would used it on. i'm not the biggest suede fan but my friend is.
Re: Wait, what?? Bernard Butler + Maple neck Electric XII???
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 9:47 pm
I wonder if he still owns it..or if it was a studio rental...I think the photo is meant to be Dog Man Star recording era.
Re: Wait, what?? Bernard Butler + Maple neck Electric XII???
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 10:28 pm
I wonder if it could have been a custom-made replacement neck? I mean, most of the Electric XII was produced in the block inlay era, it was only 1965 and part of 1966 that they had dots, right? So it would have had to be a custom maple neck order in the first year or so of production. Fender sometimes did some real stuff, but my gut says someone might have built it to replace a damage or undesired neck.
Re: Wait, what?? Bernard Butler + Maple neck Electric XII???
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2020 1:15 am
I wannit.
Re: Wait, what?? Bernard Butler + Maple neck Electric XII???
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2020 6:19 am
It's possible...what throws me off is that it looks like it has the correct decal, and back then getting any replacement Fender decal, let alone an Electric XII would have been tricky...but it is a possibility...maybe even just a replaced rosewood fretboard to a maple cap fretboard...?mbene085 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 29, 2020 10:28 pmI wonder if it could have been a custom-made replacement neck? I mean, most of the Electric XII was produced in the block inlay era, it was only 1965 and part of 1966 that they had dots, right? So it would have had to be a custom maple neck order in the first year or so of production. Fender sometimes did some real stuff, but my gut says someone might have built it to replace a damage or undesired neck.
A definite mystery of a guitar...I guess we will most likely never know.
Re: Wait, what?? Bernard Butler + Maple neck Electric XII???
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2020 11:23 am
Remember that Robert Smith also used a maple neck XII while in The Banshees. Must've been a UK import only thing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-5mVUb1gqM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-5mVUb1gqM
Re: Wait, what?? Bernard Butler + Maple neck Electric XII???
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2020 12:33 pm
Woah! Good call! I'd forgotten about that one!
Re: Wait, what?? Bernard Butler + Maple neck Electric XII???
Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2020 2:11 am
That guitar, and the original one posted above, are so sick! Had no clue these were made.OffYourFace wrote: ↑Tue Jun 30, 2020 11:23 amRemember that Robert Smith also used a maple neck XII while in The Banshees. Must've been a UK import only thing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-5mVUb1gqM
Re: Wait, what?? Bernard Butler + Maple neck Electric XII???
Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2020 1:55 am
Robert Smith (presumably) still owns his, it made some occasional Cure appearances circa 2000:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mujckupI2c8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mujckupI2c8
Re: Wait, what?? Bernard Butler + Maple neck Electric XII???
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 12:08 pm
Rad. And yet, more jealous of his parquet floor.
Re: Wait, what?? Bernard Butler + Maple neck Electric XII???
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2020 6:00 pm
Everything on that pic is just amazing, great taste. The Electric XII is my fav machine on that room tho 