New Esquire Assembly

[56telemike]

Hello everyone, 1st post. After playing my one and only tele since '80 I decided I must have an Esquire. Here it is! Body from Jaydog, neck, bridgeplate, compensated saddles from Glendale. Pickup is a Don Mare triple tapped Stingray with a push/pull tone pot bypass. Pickguard and the rest of the hardware from Callaham. I played a gig last night with it and got about 20 compliments. I love it! Oh yeah it weighs in at 6lbs 4ozs (had it weighed at my local Post Office) hope the pic's do it justice.

[bukowski]

Hey Mike glad it turned out so good ! Dan (hands on music ) was telling me about it ,I'm using glendale saddles on my parts tele .I've got to come check you out when you playing next? (Jason White ) I've been thinking about trying some of dons pickups ,can you get it to sound like your 56?

[robt57]

Originally Posted by 56telemike

Pickup is a Don Mare triple tapped Stingray with a push/pull tone pot bypass.

Nice!



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[56telemike]

Thanks Jason, The Esquire is a completely different animal! in a good way! It sounds great!

[Injun Joe]

That thing looks SWEET.

[millhouse]

TeleMike,

How do you like that Glendale neck? I have been thinking about one, but I just can't convince myself that it is worth the money. That with his pine body = drool!

Jason

[RothnRoll]

Wow that is NICE!
What color is that body? Who did the finish for you?
How good was the nut cut on the Glendale neck?

[Rob DiStefano]

Nice!

[bukowski]

I played this guitar yesterday I'm sold the don mare triple tap was very cool ,I'm doing one in candyapple red !

[boris bubbanov]

Welcome, Mike!

She sounds absolutely top drawer in every way.

Normally I like a little understatement in neck figure but that composition with that great baby blue just blows me away!

[56telemike]

thanks everyone for your kind words. Millhouse, the glendale neck is very nice, I ordered it back in the summer when his price was lower and our dollar was at par with U.S. so I thought I'm only gonna build this one, go all the way. Rothnroll, A local auto painter who happens to build some beautiful acoustic guitars painted it for me. It's called "spectramaster blue" btw I have the tint no's if you are interested. The bone nut had a slight harmonic overtone on the E .10 string when played open. I'll get it looked at whenever I can put it down long enough! LOL......Mike....thanks again to Don Mare for the Stingray pup...it's like having 3 different pup,s in 1 guitar!

[robt57]

Originally Posted by Rob DiStefano

Nice!

Rob, who is that in you picture/avatar, you? Looks like my son Steven a whole lot. ;)

[Tele Fan]

Sweet looking esquire.

[Old Cane]

I love that color!

[67plexi]

Mike, How do you like the pine body? I have one on the way a pine nocaster body made by Musikraft. I have a 1972 Telecaster neck and neck plate to go with it and JM Rolph is building me a set of aged broadcaster pickups. How does the pine sound compaired to alder or a ash body ?

Nice build,

Best regards, Steve.

[robt57]

Originally Posted by 67plexi

How does the pine sound compaired to alder or a ash body ?

I'll add and opinion about pine. I built 2 Pine casters over the summer out of approx 35 year old reclaimed pine. One Deluxe and a regular Tele. Due to the wood I got, these are 1-9/16" along the lines of the Glendale offering and the original Tele Protos. If I was to characterize pine sound of these I made as compared to alder or a ash, I'd say it has more honk and pop than alder. Like some very light airey sounding swamp ash teles I have played/heard. YMMV

I should add that @ 1-9/16" Thick, and under 3 lb per body, I was/am quite pleased with the full projecting pop and honk of the projects tone as finished instruments. I can not emphasize how nice it is to have a 5.9 lb Tele that kick major ars in the tone department. The Deluxe is 6.4 lb.

Link to Pic of the piney pair

[67plexi]

robt57, Thank you for the reply it is good to know. I played a set back in 1980 with a 1950 Broadcaster and loved the sound I would say it was around five to six pounds max.


Regards, Steve.

[cannedheat67]

Looks sweet, I'm glad to hear another good review on the pickup- I have the 2 tap version for a tele build on order.

[twangcaster1]

That thing is hotter than a fresh scone on a skillet!

[JDRNoPro]

That's a real beauty 56telemike - top notch cmponents,too. I'll bet it sounds/plays killer.

Ya done good! Also, welcome and thanks for sharing......we love pix!

[Wardpike]

Dear Mike,
I am very impressed!!

All the best,
Ward

[giginthesky]

holy crap that's beautiful! is that the same as daphne blue? classy job and welcome to the forum!

[tjalla]

Excellent first post! Welcome to the forum:)

[boris bubbanov]

Originally Posted by giginthesky

holy crap that's beautiful! is that the same as daphne blue? classy job and welcome to the forum!

Daphne Blue, I don't think so.

I think Mike's color (thanks for the info!) is stronger than even the G + L Baby Blue shown here:



And Daphne Blue is a good bit more subdued than that. IMO.

I'm hoping Mike will shoot and post more pictures. THIS is the kind of blue Fender should be painting their blue guitars, not Electron Blue.

[MickM]

I missed this thread earlier. Very sweet Esquire! Anybody else have one of the Mare triple tapped pickups? I'd like to get all the options out of a single pickup that are possible.

[Grange]

Nice build.

I was THIS close to posting my first build - an Esquire as well... so much for that!

I going to plug the Mare Trips in mine this summer. That glendale neck looks great.

Great build.

[shades]

Very nice! Well done and welcome to the TDPRI.
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