Butterscotch blackguard club...

I want to see them, Butterscotch blackguards old and new, Fender or not and all the details you can provide of em...


I need it for inspiration and of course, we can't have enough showoff clubs around here,so shoot!!!!!!

After reading the blackguardbook, i'm a believer.
I just love butterscotch blackguards.
It so happens that i found two rattlecans of Butterscotch nitro whilst on holiday in France so i guess there's a blackguard or two coming up.
Just did a SX conversion wich has a real nice butterscotch for such a cheap guitar.

Here's my first one;

http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg12/olaftheholy/IMG_8139.jpg

http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg12/olaftheholy/IMG_8138.jpg


The body,neck and bridgeplate are original SX parts, bridge was made into a stringthrough and given stewmac compensated saddles, neck was undone of it's orange coat and given a nitro highgloss finish.
All the rest is new stuff, cts pots, grigsby switch,axesrus control plate, flattop knobs,wilkinson tuners,tonerider bridge pickup, Giovanni neck pickup, electro socket.


Now let's see yours.


cheers and welcome to the club,

Olaf

Love a chance to post a photo again!

2000 AV52RI:
Callaham Blackguard
Glendale Brass Saddles
1983 Tweed Case (from my '83 AV57RI Strat that no longer exists)

http://www.tdpri.com/telephoto/data/517/medium/52RI-Case_2_t.jpg

Many of them are hiding out at the Blackguard Builders Club (http://www.tdpri.com/forum/tele-home-depot/155528-blackguard-replica-builders-club.html) which for some reason in not in the "clubs" section...

http://www.tresgatosguitars.com/images/jul192009c.jpg

Newtwanger;

Now that is one wacky esquier!
Is the one with the 'barcode' neck right?

http://www.tdpri.com/telephoto/data/517/medium/52RI_3_t.jpg

Newtwanger;

Now that is one wacky esquier!
Is the one with the 'barcode' neck right?

Yep, I had the opportunity to photograph all my guitars this weekend in good natural light so that's a new photo of "stripey" :grin:

A Haar Blackguard Butterscotch Beauty.
http://www.tdpri.com/forum/telecaster-discussion-forum/167816-harr-telecaster-butterscotch.html

Well, it's not a Fender, but it doesn't matter to me. I love it! It's my new Butterscotch Blackguard Logan Custom. May I join, sirs?
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l200/gvpaulus/IMG_1539-1.jpg
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l200/gvpaulus/IMG_1541.jpg
Northern Swamp Ash body
Nitro finish (thin!)
Duncan STL-1b Vintage Broadcaster bridge and STR1 Vintage Rhythm
Rude, raucous and raunchy. It's even sweet, if I want to be nice.

FSR 52 Players' deluxe!

Man, I'm *loving* this thread! :grin:

Newtwanger, thanks for the pics of "stripey" (?) and the link to the Blackguard Builders Club.

Fret Wilkes, thanks for your pics as well, especially the one of your AV52RI and that lovely old 1983 Tweed Case.

And Paul (gvonpaul) I know I've said it before about your Logan, but I use four words to describe her: BEE-YOU-TEE-FULL!!!! :wink:

Not sure if it's butterscotch. It's a little darker, so maybe just scotch... :) But butterscotch was what I was going for. My favorite guitar.

http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs094.snc1/4959_591099125683_23215927_35944415_4494052_n.jpg

Thinking about sinking a set of Bill Lawrence Keystones in it.

Does this get me in? '07 Baja.
http://www.tdpri.com/telephoto/data/500/Baja_1.jpg

I'll play.

One of the first 52 Thin Skins released.
6.14 lbs of greatness.

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g7/humbuster/Thinskin/09bikesearch014.jpg

My butterscotch blackguard '83 top loader ~

http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww183/telechamp/TeletoploaderPB.jpg

http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww183/telechamp/TeletoploaderPB4.jpg

http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww183/telechamp/TeletoploaderPB60792.jpg

Mine's an '87 AVRI.

http://static.flickr.com/33/64187960_82afefb188_o.jpg

Working on some bodies!
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk237/ramseypete/Relic1copy.jpg http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk237/ramseypete/Relic3copy.jpg http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk237/ramseypete/Relic2-1.jpg http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk237/ramseypete/Relic4-1.jpg

2009 Fender Custom Shop 1952 heavy reliced with handwound Abigail Ybarra PU´s.

2009 Fender Custom Shop 1952 heavy reliced with handwound Abigail Ybarra PU´s.

Holy cow!

Sweet machine you got there!

Here's one I did with Re-Ranch BSB. It's too yellow for me.

http://www.apolloguitars.ca/images/MB006.jpg

And this one I did with shellac that I tinted. I like the look of this better.

http://i334.photobucket.com/albums/m408/apolloguitars/MIMF%20Challenge/mimf044.jpg

Glad to see that having a rosewood board doesnt rule one out:razz:

Heres my old Affinity, turned into a sort of blackguard Esquire.

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k7/andys_01/SquierBlackguard2.jpg

Hotter pickup, wired so that you have Tone+Vol/Vol only/Straight to jack.

Mmmmm...loves me some blackguard goodness.

Only pic I have so far where she's decent.


'08 AV52RI, stock...

http://i495.photobucket.com/albums/rr316/wutswifit/P1000239.jpg

Here's my blackguard baby

My own build and my fingers are so sore cause I cant put it down.

32424

Hey does this count?
It's a 2006 Fender American "Vintage Player", basically a MIA deluxe without the S1, black binding, and locking tuners.

http://seangephardt.com/guitars/2006.fender.telecaster.vintagedeluxe.jpg

Hmm my picture link isn't working... but I do have one! I'll take a picture tomorrow. :razz:

Hmm my picture link isn't working... but I do have one! I'll take a picture tomorrow.
JPark

Boy, JP, did you mean to bait the hook the way you did? :wink:

While we continue to wait on that pic from JPark… :razz:

Mmmmm...loves me some blackguard goodness.

Only pic I have so far where she's decent.


'08 AV52RI, stock...

http://i495.photobucket.com/albums/rr316/wutswifit/P1000239.jpg

I gotta say, Bodeen, your AV52RI looks more than decent in that pic, and she looks to be in nice company with that Egnater stack.

And is that a Pro Jr. I see? Are you a harp player as well? And what kind of microphone is that? It looks more like a kitchen utensil than a mic to me. :lol:

I guess I'll have to weigh in with my CS Nocaster!

Purdy!

http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/2305/cunettonocasterandcasea.jpg

Best neck I have ever played.

http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/868/neckprofilecloseupb.jpg

One day I'll take some proper photos of the guitars, looks so much better in the flesh.

http://www.tdpri.com/telephoto/data/517/medium/52RI_3_t.jpg


This is what I think of when I think "butterscotch".

My offering has no whitewash base coat, and so it came out like this:

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t25/Bubbanov/28NOV022008002.jpg

It is a butterscotch but not the butterscotch. Fender OV pickups, 4 way switching, all USACG wood parts, Stew Mac #0099 plate with #5167 saddles except a home made aluminum one, Gotoh split shafts.

Very nice sounding perhaps because the body is almost 5 pounds, I recall.

[...] I gotta say, Bodeen, your AV52RI looks more than decent in that pic, and she looks to be in nice company with that Egnater stack.

And is that a Pro Jr. I see? Are you a harp player as well? And what kind of microphone is that? It looks more like a kitchen utensil than a mic to me. :lol:



Thanks! Gotta say it sounds pretty good through that Egnater, as well. :mrgreen:

Yeah, that is a PJ along with my harps. That kitchen utensil, btw, is the damnedest thing. ;-) It's a homebrew harp mic made out of a tea ball, as seen here --> http://cgi.ebay.com/Egg-static-Harp-Mic-harmonica-microphone_W0QQitemZ320433941909QQcmdZViewItemQQpt ZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item4a9b59ed95 .

Boy, JP, did you mean to bait the hook the way you did? :wink:

While we continue to wait on that pic from JPark… :razz:


SHHHHH! No one was supposed to notice!!!


One on the left is me just doodlin' around on my Tele while at a band practice. One on the right is my Tele lounging about (It's also my avatar).

That kitchen utensil, btw, is the damnedest thing. ;-) It's a homebrew harp mic made out of a tea ball ...

:shock: :lol: LOL!!! That "Egg-static" mic is wild! I almost said in my previous post that it looked like something you'd strain tea with...no bull! A definite conversation piece, no doubt.

SHHHHH! No one was supposed to notice!!!


One on the left is me just doodlin' around on my Tele while at a band practice. One on the right is my Tele lounging about (It's also my avatar).

Yummm! Nice and butterscotchy! :grin: