Which one gets the upgrades? EDIT: Poll is moot more information on page 3

For guitars of the straight waisted variety (or reverse offset).

Which one?

AVRI Custom Telecaster
7
26%
Good old American Standard
9
33%
Black paisley on black Telecaster don't be an idiot
11
41%
 
Total votes: 27

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Re: Which one gets the upgrades?

Post by Larry Mal » Sat Oct 16, 2021 2:36 pm

mackerelmint wrote:
Sat Oct 16, 2021 12:54 pm
Black on sunburst looks good, always.

White on black looks like a cheap, ill-fitting, threadbare rental tuxedo on a pimply-faced teenager, always.

You know what to do.
That is, in fact, what it has always looked like to me.
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Re: Which one gets the upgrades?

Post by mackerelmint » Sat Oct 16, 2021 3:08 pm

Larry Mal wrote:
Sat Oct 16, 2021 2:36 pm
mackerelmint wrote:
Sat Oct 16, 2021 12:54 pm
Black on sunburst looks good, always.

White on black looks like a cheap, ill-fitting, threadbare rental tuxedo on a pimply-faced teenager, always.

You know what to do.
That is, in fact, what it has always looked like to me.
Well, me too, so it's not too surprising to hear that.
This is an excellent rectangle

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Re: Which one gets the upgrades? EDIT: Poll is moot more information on page 3

Post by Larry Mal » Sat Oct 16, 2021 3:25 pm

OK, sorry, everyone, but something came up.

I looked on Reverb and found part of a Nashville Telecaster (3 pickup) Kinman set. It's just the neck and middle pickup and importantly the no-solder harness. Still, it was a very good deal so I snapped it up.

The American Standards were all routed for middle pickups and also for humbuckers under there. So that one will end up a three pickup Telecaster down the road with some kind of aluminum pickguard, that'll be a little harder to source. I'll ask the paisley guys if they can make one.

But for now, it'll be the AVRI that gets the upgrades.

Sorry, everyone... I was going to bow to the common wisdom but I had to hop on the used deal since Kinman stuff isn't all that common used.
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Post by mackerelmint » Sat Oct 16, 2021 5:42 pm

You fucked us, Larry! You fucked us all!

Hopefully the AVRI's black pickguard will fit on the other one.
This is an excellent rectangle

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Re: Which one gets the upgrades? EDIT: Poll is moot more information on page 3

Post by Larry Mal » Sat Oct 16, 2021 6:37 pm

I know, I know. If it's any consolation, I won't be putting any purple on anything and I have accepted I'm not Prince.
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Re: Which one gets the upgrades? EDIT: Poll is moot more information on page 3

Post by beauzooka » Sat Oct 16, 2021 8:34 pm

Larry Mal wrote:
Sat Oct 16, 2021 6:37 pm
I know, I know. If it's any consolation, I won't be putting any purple on anything and I have accepted I'm not Prince.
A wise choice.

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Re: Which one gets the upgrades? EDIT: Poll is moot more information on page 3

Post by Flurko » Sun Oct 17, 2021 12:12 am

Larry Mal wrote:
Sat Oct 16, 2021 6:37 pm
I know, I know. If it's any consolation, I won't be putting any purple on anything and I have accepted I'm not Prince.

I will be taking this personally, it's my favorite color.

To be fair I look more like J Mascis than Prince these days, but it's not like there's a third famous guitar player known for his love of purple.

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Re: Which one gets the upgrades? EDIT: Poll is moot more information on page 3

Post by Larry Mal » Sun Oct 17, 2021 8:17 am

Honestly, my original idea was just to put a black aluminum pickguard on there and make it just be black on black.

Then I discovered the paisley and that really caught my eye. I don't get to have any of them paisley Telecasters and Jazzmasters I keep seeing everyone around here have, but I can get in on the action a little bit anyway!
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