Fritz Bros. Owners' Club

I searched the "Owners' Club" threads and didn't see one for the Fritz Brothers. If one exists and I missed it, accept my apologies.
Here's mine:
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http://i786.photobucket.com/albums/yy145/gearshift_photos/Music%20Gear/IMAG0817.jpg

OK, so I may be the lone Fritz Bros. owner on TDPRI. How about anyone who has played one?

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drf64: Beautiful guitar! How are the electronics set up on yours? Mine is described like this by Roger Fritz:
The push pull gives 2 more pickup combinations. When the 5-way is in the bridge position and you pull up, it activates the neck pickup, giving the neck/bridge combination. Moving the 5-way selector into the 2nd postion gives all three pickups.
Basically, a seven pickup combination setup with simple operation.
At one point, I had active pickups on it but switched out to P-90s

Thanks for posting!

drf64: Beautiful guitar! How are the electronics set up on yours? Mine is described like this by Roger Fritz:
The push pull gives 2 more pickup combinations. When the 5-way is in the bridge position and you pull up, it activates the neck pickup, giving the neck/bridge combination. Moving the 5-way selector into the 2nd postion gives all three pickups.
Basically, a seven pickup combination setup with simple operation.
At one point, I had active pickups on it but switched out to P-90s

Thanks for posting!

I'm digging your p-90s. very cool!

So here's my guitar's story as best I know it:

I bought this on flea bay 4 years ago. The guy selling it was a jazzer. The original neck had a RW board on it. The PO didn't like the nut (a distinctive feature of the Fritz Bros Guitars) and had replaced it with a bone nut. I caught it at the end of the auction and got it for the opening bid price, which if memory serves was around $850. When it arrived the neck didn't seem to fit the pocket well. I took it off and there were clearly 8 holes drilled, but 4 had been filled in as if it had been mounted on another guitar at one time. I emailed the PO and asked about all of that. He was a little defensive saying he had NEVER replaced the neck, just the nut, and I had gotten a good deal at a price he never expected the guitar to sell for, so I shoud quit bitching. Fair enough, I emailed Roger Fritz and asked if he would replace the neck and use the old nut, and do a set up. He said "no problem." The only thing was that He would keep the RW board neck. So I did and the new neck with the old hardware on it still looks good on the old body.

Roger apparently didn't really keep detailed records or just wasn't too interested in giving me details. The guitar was made when he was building in Florida, and it is a Super Deluxe. He thought it was late 80's or very early 90's. The original pickups were passive and he had hand wound them. I thought they sounded a little thin so I replaced them with Joe Bardens. They are Strat neck and middle Pick ups and a Modern T bridge pickup. I wanted a Gatton neck pickup, but the pick guard is really routed for a strat neck pick up. The switching is just as you have described with a push pull pot on the tone control to bring in the Neck PUP all the time.

I like this guitar. It is stratty in the neck/middle and more tele in the bridge. and the Bardens are, of course, silent as far as noise.

-Dan

BTW dealing with Fritz Brothers was a total treat. Roger answers email promptly and Chrsty actually picks up the phone and answers it. She called me a couple of times to give me updates. They are Good Peoples.