Redhead Pics

[mad dog]

GAD:

That is a truly beautiful instrument. Great catch!

On the metal bridge: I went through that with a Gretsch round up. The metal added bite, but also plink. Didn't take long before I was looking for alternatives. By far the best was the solid brass, grooved bridge (bar bridge, or "rocker" bar bridge for Bigsby) available on some Gretsches. I got one of the regular ones. Even though my Gretsch had a Bigsby, I was betting you didn't need extra motion in the bridge to keep the Bigsby in tune. And that's the way it turned out. Tonally, the bar bridge on a rosewood base was way better than not only the Bigsby Aluminum bridge, also the solid rosewood bridges I've tried. No plink ... better sustain, plus a pleasing blending of the different string tones together.

A guy over on www.gretschpages.com (Proteus) has taken that idea further, crafting "Tru Arc" bridges for which you can customize string spacing and radius. Something not possible with the orginal bar bridges. Anyway, that might be worth checking out.

MD

 

[GuildFS4612CE]

I bought it for my Brian Setzer obsession

GAD

Here you go, GAD, the 2 Guild Brian Setzer models :wink:

Bluesbird 1985

Bluesbird Fretboard

FS46CE

:mrgreen: :mrgreen:

 

[GAD]

Now there's something you don't see every day! The fretboard is amazing!

GAD

 

[GuildFS4612CE]

could be available, to the right home...

 

[GAD]

could be available, to the right home...

Heh - not my thing really, sexy though that fretboard is.

GAD

 

[krysh]

jane, if she was orange and had 3 single coils..... 8)

 

[matsickma]

I owned a redish with a slight orange tint Setzer solidbody Bluesbird with 3 EMG single coils and Kahler vibrato a few years back. It was a plane looking guitar with the red body and black pickups but it did have the fancy neck. This model has the long 25 1/2 inch neck. The pickups on this guitar were really great sounding active EMG's. The pickup switch was a 5 position type and the 2nd and 4th position had the bell-like counterwound Strat tone but with more zip than a passive pickup. This guitar could saturate the front end of an amp easily. I was never a "Dead Head" but the 3 EMG single coil solid body Setzer had the tone of Jerry Garcia's guitar on the Terapin Station album down perfectly. I really liked that album and the sound of Garcia's guitar in the title song. This was a pretty heavy guitar so I eventually sold it off. I did however hang on to a S284 that had the EMG PUPs with the S-S-HB/coil-tap configuration which came very close to emulating the tone of the Setzer SSS Bluesbird.

M