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Old April 21st, 2008, 05:07 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Rice Custom #83 T-Style B-bender...wow!!
Hi there,
just want to share my new toy.. came in 2 weeks ago but I was too busy to post..
It's a one piece Korina with Bill Bores P/W B-Bender, neck is maple with Brazilian Rosewood fretboard. Medium-thick C shape. 9.5" radius, 21 6230 frets. Nitro finish, clay dots, it has Glendale doublecut steel bridgeplate with hardened steel saddles. The finish is Antique Whitewash nitrocellulose finish.
Pickups are Lollar Vintage T set with 7-way switching. Lots of tone, and very wide range of use..
It takes over by far my Tele Nashville, upgraded with Callaham bridge and Fralin's...
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Old April 21st, 2008, 05:17 AM   #4 (permalink)
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What a fantastic guitar!
Can we please have a soundclip?
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Old April 21st, 2008, 08:22 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Tell us more about the switching, and the toggle.
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Old April 21st, 2008, 08:29 AM   #6 (permalink)
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That guitar is absolutely beautiful...
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Old April 21st, 2008, 08:41 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Tell us more about the switching, and the toggle.
Yeah, I am curious about that myself.

And that is a real looker. Ya gotta love those guys.
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Old April 21st, 2008, 09:16 AM   #8 (permalink)
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That guitar is almost to pretty to be played. Beautiful!
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Old April 21st, 2008, 09:34 AM   #9 (permalink)
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That is a beauty. My compliments to the builder.
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Old April 21st, 2008, 11:16 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Stellar! I love it! You are one lucky dog!
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The Mary K finish looks great!
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Old April 21st, 2008, 12:23 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Hmmm............. I wonder if the builder would be willing to share how he achieved that color.
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Old April 21st, 2008, 03:22 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Thank you guys...
For those who wants to know how it sounds:
it sounds as it looks.. AMAZING!!!

About the switch and the toogle:
it's a seven way wiring, the 4 way switch gives you the 3 standards, plus the 4th full sound (both pickups in series, I like it a lot),
with the toogle up I get the pseudo-strat sound, the neck pickup with a bass reduction (more twang, clearer tone), and a bright thin funky setting (kind of chicken pickin' thing).
With a little patience I'll post on youtube different stuff!!
last but not least (I've no interest in the Rice Custom company) it had a human price, and paying in Euro (I'm italian) I can say it was a very good deal, way less than a CS + bender.
Ciao!
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I've got three words for that guitar....splendido, eccellante, fantastico!!!
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Old April 21st, 2008, 04:02 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Wow it looks amazing ....simply amazing!!!! if it plays a smidgen as good as it looks ...you will have years of pleasure outta that piece of craftsmanship!
thanx for the pics bro!
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Old April 21st, 2008, 07:12 PM   #17 (permalink)
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That guitar is absolutely beautiful...
Second that... whatta killer.

I can see a Rice guitar in my future; I like their stuff very much.
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Old April 29th, 2008, 07:37 AM   #18 (permalink)
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Hmmm............. I wonder if the builder would be willing to share how he achieved that color.
It's hand applied whitewash, sealed under nitro. Just gotta spend lots of hours tweaking it. Very labor intensive finish, but I like the result.
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Here's the first half of a video I made before shipping the guitar.
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Second part (sorry for my lame bendering):
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Stunner! Wow indeed!
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Thanks for the vids. Rich or Chris, do you have a link to the wiring mods for this guitar? I would never have imagined so many unique sounds from a tele. Me likey!
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Old May 2nd, 2008, 04:25 PM   #23 (permalink)
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Thanks for the vids. Rich or Chris, do you have a link to the wiring mods for this guitar? I would never have imagined so many unique sounds from a tele. Me likey!
Sorry, no link. The wiring's in my head and morphs a bit each time I do it.
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Old May 2nd, 2008, 04:53 PM   #25 (permalink)
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I never fully understood how a bender worked until watching these vids. Pretty cool stuff.
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I especially like the deletion of the 6th ferrule through the back of the body.

What a nice detail.

Nice Rice.


Reminds me of those details on that Creston 5squire that 0.F. usta get flustered over.
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