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Post subject: Holy Grail Guitars
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 2:33 pm
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Just wondering how many of you have a "Holy Grail" guitar, the one model and colour that you're always searching for, the one that pops up on eBay when you don't have the cash. Mine would be the unspeakably majestic Japanese Strat XII in Burgundy Mist. Guitars just don't get any more beautiful than this ...

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And of course, I'd love to get a 1986 MIJ Squier 62 RI Stratocaster in black to match my first ever proper guitar. Black please, rosewood fingerboard.

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Show me pics. Tell me which guitars you have been hunting for all these years. Not just Fenders, anything goes.

Really this thread's just an excuse for you to post beautiful guitars.

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Post subject: Re: Holy Grail Guitars
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 3:12 pm
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A couple obvious choices...

Dave Gilmour's custom color Stratocaster(serial number 1)...
Billy Gibbon's 1959ish Les Paul Standard...supposedly the nicest of it's kind in existence.

and then some others:

ANY un-modified Fender Jazz or Precision from the 70's that's made of Ash and has a clear finish...

Alembic 4 string(Series I, Series II, Distillate,) ALL dark woods requested(except the neck). Medium Scale...

Early 80's G&L L1000...


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Post subject: Re: Holy Grail Guitars
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 3:36 pm
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Holy Grail! I hear it calling!
Great axe there Frank! 8) Is that 12 str on your "Fist full of Feathers"?

Yes, I enterntain fantasies of -the ultimate-.
When the time came to make changes in my life,
I decided lots of stuff had to go, and I wanted to
funnel things down into a resulting precious new symbol.
8 month´s waiting made this fantasy real.
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Flamed maple neck, Mid 60´s C shape, the new home for my fretting hand!
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6105 frets, my vibratos are sweeter now! 9.5 Radius, grabbing chords feels great.
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Post subject: Re: Holy Grail Guitars
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 3:41 pm
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An early 60's Custom Telecaster with a double bound body and rosewood fretboard in Fiesta Red or Candy Apple Red.

An early Fender Bass VI in either of those colors.

A 1956 Les Paul Custom "Tuxedo" with the P-90 pickups (in black, of course).

A 1955 Gretsch Model PX6130 Round Up (in orange, of course).

A Gretsch Jupiter Thunderbird (an original or the Billy-Bo reissue).

A Guild Thunderbird with the built-in "kick stand" guitar stand (similar to the one held by Muddy Waters on the "Electric Mud" album cover). I don't even know what they feel or sound like, but they're just so dang cool-looking...

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Post subject: Re: Holy Grail Guitars
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 3:46 pm
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mike07502 wrote:
Holy Grail! I hear it calling!
Great axe there Frank! 8) Is that 12 str on your "Fist full of Feathers"?


I wish! I don't own those guitars, they're just the top two on my wanted list. The 12-string sound on the track you mentioned was actually a Roland VG simulated 12-string using the polyphonic pitch shift. I did own own an MIJ Squier identical to the one in the pic but I gave it away. Kinda missing it now!

Loving that CS Strat by the way. I think that exact model and colour scheme just became one of my Holy Grail guitars.

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Post subject: Re: Holy Grail Guitars
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 3:56 pm
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Call me crazy but I actually never thought about this before. I admit, even to me, this is significantly strange. What's worse is that I honestly can't answer the question any way. Give me a LOT of time and maybe someday, I'll be able to. Wow!

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Post subject: Re: Holy Grail Guitars
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 3:57 pm
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So Frank, on "A Fistful of Firebird Feathers",
you played a guitar into an interfase and chose a patch sound?
Or sequenced the stuff?
...I got hooked upon listening to those arpeggios man,
great potential that tune!

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Post subject: Re: Holy Grail Guitars
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 3:59 pm
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Another one springs to mind ... a Kramer Elliot Easton, either in this finish or the light blue version. I'd crawl over broken glass for one of these.

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Post subject: Re: Holy Grail Guitars
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 4:03 pm
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mike07502 wrote:
So Frank, on "A Fistful of Firebird Feathers",
you played a guitar into an interfase and chose a patch sound?
Or sequenced the stuff?
...I got hooked upon listening to those arpeggios man,
great potential that tune!


All the 12-string effect guitars are recorded live from an old Roland VG-88, guitar was a partscaster with the Roland hex pickup. There's two 12-string tracks, each with slightly different patches and with the straight guitar sound simultaneously fed through my huge rack system and panned away from the 12-string. I've been too busy to do any recording lately but I'll get round to doing some more on that tune eventually.

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Post subject: Re: Holy Grail Guitars
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 4:12 pm
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Here´s one,
I would eat moose dung all year to get this Strat Frank!
Played here by one of my favorite players, Greg F.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkr0EF8P ... FB857B9D8F

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Post subject: Re: Holy Grail Guitars
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 4:18 pm
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Mike, your moose dung would be wasted because the link doesn't work!

EDIT: haha, fixed ... and yes, those Bare Knuckle pickups are outstanding

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Post subject: Re: Holy Grail Guitars
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 4:34 pm
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I also have another Holy Grail..but it hasn't been made yet.

Fender JP90 Fretless-Ash body, P and J pickup config/Fender Alnico w/tone cap, BAII Bridge, Standard (MIM) tuners...Rosewood fingerboard. I'd like this to be MIA, or MIM(FSR). This would make for a really juicy soundin' fretless.


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Post subject: Re: Holy Grail Guitars
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 4:43 pm
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Fender JP90 Fretless


That seems to have all bases covered. Order an extra one for me, I'll pay you when I see you.

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Post subject: Re: Holy Grail Guitars
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 5:55 pm
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Like Frank, I want a 12-string Strat and I'm not that picky about the color. I've almost pulled the trigger on a couple of other 12-strings, but I really want the Strat.

None for sale on eBay. Just checked. :(

I'll talk about the Fender Esprit another time.


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Post subject: Re: Holy Grail Guitars
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 7:10 pm
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Up until about three months ago a CS Clapton Strat in Daphne Blue was my holy grail guitar that I seriously figured would never be mine. Then this baby was dumped in my lap with no warning and now I'm a happy camper.

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I think my last holy grail that I still yearn for is a Ric 360. The problem is I may actually buy one someday and I can't decide on natural, black or blue. I like them all. No, there's no way I'm going to have three Ric's.

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