You can see one there:

http://guitarmotel.com/fender/44-teleca ... ck-esquire

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Thanks alain that's the one, interesting too when i saw the original video talking about it i thought "is that the one that Jeff swapped with Seymour Duncan?" and it is! it tells you down in the bottom of the link you posted.

He talks about it at the start here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YB9EX7YpFk

I think Jeff regrets this!

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George Van Eps.

Instead of calling this subject 'Pete Townshend Stratocaster', I should have called it "How great is Eric Clapton?"

Gorgon

When Ceri and I recently met Trev Wilkinson (yes shameless name dropping again ) he told us the story behind his Beck/Esquire inspired Yardbird guitar.

Mr Wilkinson had become close friends with Seymour Duncan. Whilst undertaking some task he got talking to Seymour about the JB Esquire. It turns out that Jeff gave Seymour a load of guitars as a thank you for some favour. In that pile was the fabled Esquire.

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Hi Nick, yeah i think SD gave him that tele with the HB's, according to that video on YT anyway talking about Jeff's collection, 'cos jeff loved the sound with the tele body and everything but with the oomph of the HB's and said he'd swap him for his Esquire!!

You know i don't know if that was a good deal Jeff got or not! that SD tele is supposed to sound great but what about all the Yardbirds history of his old esquire?

You guys are so lucky! how'd you get to meet Trev Wilkinson? Is his replacement nut not available anymore? you know the type that fender used to use on the strat plus's? i've never seen it anywhere, i looked on "axesrus" and nothing there. It seems the only nut like that that you can get now is the LSR one fender has on Beck's sig model.

By all accounts it's a feather in Mr Wilkinsons cap that jeff likes that nut over everything else. From what i've read the new fender LSR nut is better and more efficient, but maybe Jeff doesn't think so.

Where do you guys live are you in London?

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You laugh ......Just think of all the photos you would have had to have come up with.

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Gorgon, no mate, I'm in Lincolnshire.
Trev Wilkinson did a few roadshows round the country with Gav Coulson or Jerry Donahue demonstrating his new FretKing guitars.

Got to meet Gav Coulson and Trev Wilkinson then went for a curry with a remarkable gent.

Here's the FretKing Yardbird.

http://www.fret-king.com/csyardbird_spec.htm

My local shop has one in stock. I've spent a good bit of time appraising it. I'm happy to say it's worth every penny of that price.

Sad to say it's still in the shop.

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That is one beautiful guitar Nick. Is there no end to Mr Wilkinson's talents? i thought he designed guitar parts and stuff, i didn't think he could actually build them from scratch too!

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George Van Eps.

My "location" line (left) holds the clue, for those as know how to decode it. (Erm, it ain't tricky.)

By the way, Gorgon:

You get that Alain himself owns that rare Tribute Esquire, do you? Along with... well, pretty near everything else!

(Gosh, I hope I'm reading that web address right. For some reason it won't open in my browser so I'm talking blind here. ...But I'd be kind of amazed if Alain doesn't own the guitar in question, so...)

Cheers - C

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Jeff's original signature model had a splittable humbucking Gold FLS in the bridge position.



Now I don't know the reasons for which he opted for an SSS guitar, dropping his preference for the midnight purple finish.

Until recently Jeff switched from the slender C neck profile to his previous favorite fat baseball bat types. Perhaps he'll decide to add a Seymour Duncan TB-4 JB Trembucker in the bridge with a push-push button for coil split?

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I remember having this guitar in my hands when it was first released. I took hold of the neck and my reaction was....

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The actual Jeff Beck guitar is offered in Surf Green and Olympic White, though I believe Fender will offer this model in the much desirable Midnight Purple finish as they did with the original.

Not sure if Jeff would put a humbucker in the bridge position of his personal guitar. He already brought back the fat bat neck and the original Wilkinson nut

Only 190 posts to go!

You need to find the cover story Vintage Guitar magazine did on him this year. There's nothing Fender about the pickups in his stage guitar at the time of the writing. In actuality, that factory guitar is a 'snapshot' of the real thing as ME likes to say.

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I do

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