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Post subject: Time for a Jeff Healey posthumous model?
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 11:59 am
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I personally never felt the man got the props he was due during his career. He was a Stratocaster HOSS! Heard him live 3 times and was blown away.
Although he is not alive to consult, I am sure that his musical compatriots could contribute.
Especially if his widow and children got a piece of the action, I certain would consider a Jeff Healey model worth owning.

Anyone else have an opinion??

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they managed it for rory gallagher so i dont see why not. Your completely correct if anyone was deserving of a sig guitar he was.

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Maybe the Jeff Healey ought to be a high-end Squier?

Isn't Jeff known for playing Squiers?

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Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 2:12 pm
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That would be a great idea. Who's the Fender guy we have to convince to buy this project? 8)


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orvilleowner wrote:
Maybe the Jeff Healey ought to be a high-end Squier?

Isn't Jeff known for playing Squiers?


His main strat (the black one) is a modded Squier....

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If a modded Squier is good enough for Jeff Healey, then a tribute model should reflect that for a potential buyer. I already own a Squier, so I have no problems with the extented Fender family. They are all fine instruments that you have to try, until you find the one that you're happy with.


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Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 4:02 pm
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Here is something that was posted a while back on Harmony Central by a supposed former band mate of Jeff's:

After the original black strat got trashed, Fender approached him for a signature model, and they made two prototype Jeff Healey Signature instruments that were relicas of the black one, with the Evans pickups and Squier logos. I haven't seen either of them but apparently they have his signature on the headstock and everything. Jeff didn't like either of them and gave them to another close friend (and great guitarist) who still has them today.

Then he had the friend draw up a schematic for Jeff's "dream guitar" which had three humbuckers with individual coil-tapping and series/parallel switches, and a switch to engage all three pickups. Jeff sent the schematic to Fender and said "this is what I would want as a signature model." Fender made one, sent it to Jeff, but also said that there's no chance that there would ever be a market for such a complex guitar, especially marketed as a Squier, and shelved the whole idea. Jeff told me he thought they were nuts not to market it; that such a flexible instrument woudl be a huge commercial success. (Personally, with all due respect to jeff, I'd side with Fender on this; it was a pretty intimidating guitar tio try to figure out.) That one-off custom shop Squier was in regular use by Jeff for ages, until just after he played a show in Hamilton, Ontario in December of 2007 (I was on second guitar for that gig), at which point his tech took it apart and put the electronics in a new parts-guitar, tobacco-burst with a headstock shaped like a suhr. As far as I know Jeff never played that new guitar. The parts of the old one are being returned to his widow; the new one is also safely stowed in a case at his house.

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Custom shop squire. :shock:

that would turn a few heads. I think i'd be waiting outside the factory for the first one to be finished and seize it.

What would the price tag be, custom shop, squire, or american standard range. It would certainly make for an interesting instrument.

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That would be interesting. They did use him in Squier advertising for a while, now that I think about it.

I would have one. And it might quiet some of those "Squiers aren't real Fenders" snobs...

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i normally dont jump on these threads but i have to agee Jeff Healey deserves a sig guitar if not the dream guitar maybe a relic model from the closet,the estate and Fender im sure could reach an agreement.Squire has lots of sig instruments that are good quality


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i normally dont jump on these threads but i have to agee Jeff Healey deserves a sig guitar if not the dream guitar maybe a relic model from the closet,the estate and Fender im sure could reach an agreement.Squire has lots of sig instruments that are good quality


+1 - GREAT POST BTW!

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I saw him live a few years ago, he was a fantastic player.


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I was the guy who posted that info on HC back in March.

In fact, the prototypes had lace sensor pickups, which Jeff didn't like at ALL, and not Evans pickups. And he preferred the build quality and feel of the japanese squiers.


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RobQ wrote:
I was the guy who posted that info on HC back in March.

In fact, the prototypes had lace sensor pickups, which Jeff didn't like at ALL, and not Evans pickups. And he preferred the build quality and feel of the japanese squiers.


Since apparently Evans isn't making pickups anymore - what would it take to make a guitar that he would have approved of? Any idea?

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For the last 7 or so years of his life, Jeff was using Seymour Duncan SH-5 humbucking pickups. He switched because he liked those pickups better than Evans' humbuckers.

If you wanted to exactly replicate jeff's last few strats, here's what you'd need:

- Rosewood neck. (His main gigging axe for the past few years was US, not Squier)
- Monstrously huge frets.
- Three SH-5's.
- three Push/pull pots, one to tap a coil on each pickup
- a master volume, master tone, and a master "brightness rolloff" control that only rolled off the highs without touching the mids.
- a switch to link bridge and neck pickups (so when one is activated, so is the other...like on a G&L S500 or Comanche)
- Vintage-style trem, set up to sit flush with the guitar (no "up-pull")

he also had the face of the guitar routed so his pickguard was flush with the guitar's "top," rather than sitting on top of it like is normal with a strat. He also had the volume control relocated about 3/4 of an inch further away from the strings than is normal on a strat.


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