Your customized CW or rockabilly guitar: What would it have?

[Darryl Hattenhauer]

I'm not talking about all of the goth violence of heavy metal, or all of the fancy but sensible detail of a D100.

I mean something that would make Brian Setzer's guitars look like something for Judy Collins. Use the typical things like decals of cars, motorsickles, girls, flames, dice, cards, desert scenes, burger joints, etc., and come up with new things. post pics or urls if possible.

hf would have an all-maple full-size starchtop, pink to purple burst, dynamitesonics, gold hardware, Guildsby, Groover rotomatics, ebony pighead overlay, ebony pukeguard, black binding, and black knobs for knobs (get it?).

 

[coastie99]

A pink panther TRC would be a must-have !



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[Walter Broes]

I love all the Bigsby and Mosrite style fancy pickguards and armrests 50's C&W artists had on their guitars, but I never like car-style paint and colours and flames on guitars, or dice knobs and all that. I do like checkered binding, like some Rickenbackers had.

If I was made of money, I'd probably have a guitar with my name inlaid on the fretboard in pearl, like Merle Travis' Super 400.

 

[Darryl Hattenhauer]

Better yet, a Coastie TRC.

I like most of that CW and 1950s stuff. I sort of like flames and cards and dice etc., but I think I'd try to dream up something new.

I think I'd put on little pics of Link Wray, Bob Wills, Bob Diddley, Buddy Emmons, Charles Bronson, Lash La Rue, Django Rinehart, Howlin' Wolf, Duane Eddy, Freddie King, Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant, Annette Funicello, Jack Elam, Patsy Cline, Scotty Moore, etc.

Also pics of the '56 Chevy I had in high school, and my high school flame's '58 T'bird--yes we had, fun, fun, fun, and her daddy never took the T'Bird away. Also my brother's cars over the last 50 years: '34 Ford 3-window, '41 Mercury, '49 Oldsmobile, '59 Thunderbird, '23 model T bucket, '34 Ford Victoria, '35 Ford paddy wagon, '32 Ford roadster, etc. Insanity is genetic. You get it from your older brother.

 

[Darryl Hattenhauer]

Walter,

How would you do a fret dressing with all of that inlay? Would you just cover the inlay with tape?

hf

Ain't no way I'd have "Darryl Hattenhauer" on any guitar. I mean, there has never been a country or blues or rock or jazz hero with such a name. So I'd put in my stage name: "Buddy King." A name like that would fit in any kind of music.

 

[coastie99]

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I think I'd put on little pics of Link Wray, Bob Wills, Bob Diddley, Buddy Emmons, Charles Bronson, Lash La Rue, Django Rinehart, Howlin' Wolf, Duane Eddy, Freddie King, Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant, Annette Funicello, Jack Elam, Patsy Cline, Scotty Moore, etc.
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Jeez Darryl !!

You left out Mr. Ed. !!

 

[FNG]

http://www.elderly.com/vintage/items/30U-13756.htm

 

[Walter Broes]

Walter,

How would you do a fret dressing with all of that inlay? Would you just cover the inlay with tape?

hf

That's a good question! I don't have a clue, but there's got to be a way to make that work - lots of those guys had their name on the fretboard, and lots of acoustics have fancy inlay, like all that "tree of life" stuff, (yuk!!!) things like that?

Another thing I really, really like on fretboards for inlays is the Bigsby/Sho-Bud hearts and spades and all that - great looking IMO.

If you like 40's/50's Cowbody Kitsch, doesn't get much better than this, does it?

And Guild had a supreme Cowboy Kitsch moment too, of course, with the Merle Travis Sig.

 

[Nigel Wickwire]

For some reason, when I read 'CW and Rockabilly', it brings to mind a Telecaster shaped guitar:

I wonder if I need to see a mental health professional............


~nw

 

[coastie99]

I wonder if I need to see a mental health professional............


~nw

Don't fret Nigel ......... you're in good company here.

Silliness is good for you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C6bVckO_CM

 

[Darryl Hattenhauer]

You left out Mr. Ed. !!

That's what they call me at the Phoenix Housewives' Association.

 

[coastie99]

You left out Mr. Ed. !!

That's what they call me at the Phoenix Housewives' Association.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

And not because of your winn(ie)-ing) ways !!

 

[Darryl Hattenhauer]

Nor wienieing

 

[Nigel Wickwire]

Don't fret Nigel ......... you're in good company here.

Silliness is good for you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C6bVckO_CM

:lol: :lol:

Too funny, Coastie!

~nw

 

[Darryl Hattenhauer]

Walter,

Thanks for the tip about Sho-Bud. I could put on a pic of my Sho-Bud and Sho-Bro. I'd have to get Tom Waits and Dan Hicks on there too. Also these guys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YIBV02E-pM
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Everybody,

The trouble with ordering a guitar like this is that you probably couldn't get your money back out of it. So for me, this is all dreaming. Until I become the next Merle Travis. But that would take me all day.

 

[coastie99]

Walter,

I'd have to get Tom Waits and Dan Hicks on there too. Also these guys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YIBV02E-pM
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You'd need to be quick ........... "Tom Waits for no-one" "

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih7Vy-W-TWU

 

[Darryl Hattenhauer]

Superb! Prime Coastiness!