An Esquire weekend with Arlo

[Home Grown Tele]

The wife and I spent this past weekend in Portland, ME hanging with Arlo West and his lovely new wife Yvonne.

Unfortunately, it poured most of the time we where there. Rained so damned hard we took a cab to the sushi restaurant two blocks away and still got soaked between the cab and the front door of the restaurant!!

But I did get turned on by Arlo to a new sushi delicacy, DEEP FRIED SHRIMP HEADS! And they actually tasted pretty good! Or maybe it was just the sake telling me that.

A quick picture of us with the Esquires.............................



Arlo, great time buddy!! We'll definitely be up again soon!!

[smsuryan]

hey!! did you get that pickguard from el dorado? i have a black leather guard on my esquire similar to that...and the orange one is beautiful too...

[Home Grown Tele]

I believe that Arlo did get that pickguard from El Dorado.

And thanks for the compliment on the Gretschquire!

[Geoff738]

Originally Posted by Home Grown Tele

I believe that Arlo did get that pickguard from El Dorado.

And thanks for the compliment on the Gretschquire!

Please tell us more about that one!

Looks great!

Cheers,
Geoff

[smsuryan]

those leather guards look sharp...i havent changed my avatar but my esquire looks something like this now http://www.tdpri.com/forum/telecaste...d-esquire.html
only with brass saddles...i never thought of the tan guard with the natural finish....thats stunning!! and the rosewood board on the orange esquire looks sharp too...dont know which i like better...i wish i could go on a weekend like that...im green with envy...

[Home Grown Tele]

Originally Posted by Geoff738

Please tell us more about that one!
Geoff

There was a pretty extensive build thread posted here on that one but when I went back to look it over I realized that I'd moved the photos in my Photobucket account and they were no longer showing on the thread. If you're interested you can find them here....................

http://www.reranch.com/reranch/viewt...bb718e1ed75cfd

The short version on it is:

Douglas fir body
Warmoth maple neck w/ ebony board, gold fretwire gold horseshoe string tree
Gold hardware (Gretsch knobs, etc)
ReRanch Orange nitro finish
Tru-Oil/SM Vintage Amber finish on neck
Don Mare Triple tap Stingray pickup (Buchanan wrap/6.0 ohm/8.3 ohm)
.047 PIO cap with .001 treble bleed circuit
Pickguard is a clear Esquire guard back sprayed with Gold and has a custom Gretsch inspired "Gretschquire" logo

[ROADMAN]

did you try out Arlo's new bar or was the sake enough..the orange with the gold looks beauty .......droooool

[Arlo]

Hey broski! That is my hangover face!! :-P What a blast we had man. I should mention that we broke a record here for rainfall 5.03 inchs. It was raining like a huricane, ok so it was raining like the remnant of a huricane [ida].

Had a blast Arte hopefully yous tooz can make it up here for Boothbay next summer with us.

[Home Grown Tele]

Originally Posted by Arlo

Hey broski! That is my hangover face!! :-P What a blast we had man. I should mention that we broke a record here for rainfall 5.03 inchs. It was raining like a huricane, ok so it was raining like the remnant of a huricane [ida].

Had a blast Arte hopefully yous tooz can make it up here for Boothbay next summer with us.

We'll be there for Boothbay and make sure we get up again before that as well. Had an awesome time bro! Just starting to dry out now!

[Groovey Records]

What a pair of bookends, you fellers looking deep fried yourselves.

Glad to see the Noreaster didn't dampen your spirits!

Ol Piney and the Gretschquire

Love is the law, love under will.