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Post subject: Jeff Beck Stratocaster
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 8:22 am
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I am looking for a Jeff Beck Strat. I want an older one, but they are herd to find. I remember playing one years ago and I was gonna buy it but never did. Now I want one. What exactly is a Jeff Beck Strat anyway? IS it just an endorsed Strat? What is the closest Strat to a JB anyway?


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Post subject: Re: Jeff Beck Stratocaster
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 8:49 am
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cwgatti wrote:
Now I want one. What exactly is a Jeff Beck Strat anyway?

Hi cwgatti: you want one - but you're not quite sure what it is?


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IS it just an endorsed Strat? What is the closest Strat to a JB anyway?

The Beck signature Strat is pretty close to what Jeff plays on stage. Except that he likes the Wilkinson roller nut that came with the early version of the guitar rather than the LSR roller nuts Fender use nowadays. The Wilkinson nut is long out of production but Jeff has a private stash of them and has those fitted to his own instruments.

Also, recently he has apparently been once more favouring much thicker necks. The latest guitars the Custom Shop make for him personally now have a very thick neck, so we are told. As yet the Signature model still has the medium sized neck he used to play: whether in due course it will follow his latest tastes we shall have to wait and see.

But apart from those details, if you buy the current Fender JB sig you will be getting pretty near to what Jeff himself plays. According to his tech.

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Post subject: Re: Jeff Beck Stratocaster
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 9:30 am
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"What exactly is a Jeff Beck Strat anyway?"

I was asking which typical Fender Strat model was the Jeff Beck Strat based on? Am I making myself crazy trying to find an original Jeff Beck Strat, or can I buy a Strat Plus, or a Strat Ultra, with the same p/u, tremelo, configuration. I'd love the original with the big fat neck and the Wilkenson, but I don't know what year that was.


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Post subject: Re: Jeff Beck Stratocaster
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 9:31 am
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I remember playing that old JB strat and I really like the big fat neck on it. What year did they stop making that neck?


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Post subject: Re: Jeff Beck Stratocaster
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 10:51 am
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cwgatti - I'm not 100% sure when the neck shape changed, but it was surely changed by the time the revised JB came out in 2001 (with the Hot Noiseless pickups).

If you definitely want the baseball bat neck you should keep looking for an early one; I suspect you would be fine as long as you go for a 1996 or earlier. Probably the earlier the better - I remember picking up a couple of these in the 1991-1992 time frame and they definitely had the really big neck.

There isn't another regular production Strat model that would have that large neck - while the Beck is based on the Strat Plus their necks (along with the Plus Deluxes and Ultras) were thinner in depth.


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Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 11:59 am
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Post subject: Re: Jeff Beck Stratocaster
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 12:00 pm
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Jeff's personal white Strat is fitted with a 1993 neck, the pickups on the guitar are Suhr-designed custom-wound stacks, according to Trevor Wilkinson.


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Post subject: Re: Jeff Beck Stratocaster
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 12:24 pm
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I think that new Jeff Beck is the bomb digity :D I want one

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Post subject: Re: Jeff Beck Stratocaster
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 8:43 pm
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John C wrote:
I remember picking up a couple of these in the 1991-1992 time frame and they definitely had the really big neck.

I also...a purple finish, Gold Lace sensors, a single at the neck and middle; a dually at the bridge. UFFFF!!!
Ceri and Chromeface have likely read the cover article on Jeff in Vintage Guitar magazine. Last July if I've got it right. Have a look. I may have posted several links on him in an earlier thread. Main characteristic on the Signature guitar, aside from the hot ceramic pickups, is that the trem bridge is setup to sharp as well as flat the note. I also remember Mike Eldred chiming in regarding the discussion on the guitar pickups to the effect that he had a set of those Suhr pickups in his keeping. Apparently John Suhr built them while he was working for Fender.

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Post subject: Re: Jeff Beck Stratocaster
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 9:19 pm
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[quote="John C"]cwgatti - I'm not 100% sure when the neck shape changed, but it was surely changed by the time the revised JB came out in 2001 (with the Hot Noiseless pickups).

If you definitely want the baseball bat neck you should keep looking for an early one; I suspect you would be fine as long as you go for a 1996 or earlier. Probably the earlier the better - I remember picking up a couple of these in the 1991-1992 time frame and they definitely had the really big neck.



The big necks were last used in 2000, then on to the thinner ones. I heard Beck likes the thick ones again, but I don't think Fender has caught up to him yet, and are still producing medium 'C' necks.

I have the older version at home with the Lace sensors, and that thick neck is definitely a favourite for me. Great sound, feels good. Even if it did not have Beck's signature on it, it would be a fantastic guitar.


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Post subject: Re: Jeff Beck Stratocaster
Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 2:40 am
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a purple finish, Gold Lace sensors, a single at the neck and middle; a dually at the bridge.




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Post subject: Re: Jeff Beck Stratocaster
Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 4:15 am
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Ceri and Chromeface have likely read the cover article on Jeff in Vintage Guitar magazine. Last July if I've got it right. Have a look. I may have posted several links on him in an earlier thread.

Here's the article, for anyone interested. It's long and fascinating, and in it Beck's tech, Stevie Prior, discusses the gear, including the white Strat chromeface mentioned:

http://www.vintageguitar.com/9486/jeff-beck/


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Jeff's personal white Strat is fitted with a 1993 neck, the pickups on the guitar are Suhr-designed custom-wound stacks, according to Trevor Wilkinson.

Hey, chromeface. Yes, that is exactly what Stevie Prior describes in the Vintage Guitar article. However, it's not quite what Trevor Wilkinson told me last year.

Trev said the Custom Shop have now made Jeff some new guitars incorporating his current taste for very fat necks, presumably modelled on that '93 neck made by JW Black. He said the Signature model sold to the public so far hasn't replicated that huge neck, and judging by the only one I've had my hands on in a shop a few months ago that hasn't changed yet.

Whether they'll change the specs in due course or not remains to be seen: I guess there's an argument that a medium-large sized neck is more popular amongst the greater number of players than a really huge one - so it depends whether in the Signature line they are aiming for maximum accuracy to the artist's own instrument, or for a slight compromise that will find the most sales. On the other hand, some players do want a truly giant neck carve and that's the very kind of thing a Signature guitar exists to provide.

Time will tell which way they decide to go on that.

Trevor Wilkinson did say that last time he met Jeff was at the NAMM, and that Jeff was surrounded at the time by several Custom Shop people including Mike Eldred. So if discussions are needed, the opportunity to have them has been taken. :)

Cheers - C

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Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 5:51 am
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Great contributions, everyone. :wink:

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Post subject: Re: Jeff Beck Stratocaster
Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 7:27 am
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The JB Custom is quite different than Jeff's white axe, features and specs-wise.


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Post subject: Re: Jeff Beck Stratocaster
Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 7:48 am
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chromeface wrote:
The JB Custom is quite different than Jeff's white axe, features and specs-wise.


Save for the neck and middle pickups and the tuners on the Custom Shop guitar, there's not much difference in the product specs compared with the production line instrument. Other than the Masterbuilt guitar, same goes for the Clapton. Though we know some of the internal differences in the build with respect to choices of woods, etc.

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