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Post by Kapitan on May 3, 2023 13:02:29 GMT
I had never heard that Carl Wilson had a prototype lucite (see-through) Fender that he used in the early '70s, presumably while working on Holland. This story in Guitar.com talks about his relationship with Fender, that guitar, and some other interesting related tidbits. One of the photos shows a cool black-and-white photo in the guitar case (so it's not as large or clear as one might like) showing Holland-era Carl, Blondie, Al, and Ricky playing, with Mike in the background. For those into guitars, not only is the clear body unusual, but the fact that it has a different type of tremolo tailpiece, a jack that goes in at a 90-degree angle rather than the more typical Strat output jack. And most notably to me, it has two humbucker-like pickups rather than the standard three single-coil pickups. In a way, it almost seems like an earlier attempt at the sort of modernization Fender tried to do in the 80s, when they were trying to compete with companies like Ibanez, Charvel, Jackson, ESP, etc. guitar.com/features/opinion-analysis/the-story-of-carl-wilson-fender-prototype/
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Post by joshilynhoisington on Jun 2, 2023 3:56:28 GMT
It was up for auction not all that long ago. Obviously I would have bought it if I'd had the money.
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Post by Kapitan on Jun 2, 2023 12:39:26 GMT
My initial thought when I see an electric guitar with an unusual body such as this lucite one is "how could that possibly sound good?" But while I know some people swear by body wood types when it comes to solid-body electric guitars' tone, I've heard others say it's almost entirely irrelevant, that actually with a solid body it really comes down almost entirely to the pickups (and of course the amps). I don't know enough about it to even say.
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