Closeup photo of Ed Bickert's tele...

[ryokan]

Found this photo on the web, is it Bickert's tele? It's from a japanese site, so i can't be sure...

[jazztele]

sure looks like it. must have been tired of losing the hex key for those saddles, huh?

some might call it ugly...i call it well loved.

[thepassivevoice]

Any idea what the original color was?

[teleyouk]

On Ed's tele, the pickguard seems to have no truss rod notch;

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now that is a beautiful tele!

[Telemarkman]

Originally Posted by teleyouk

On Ed's tele, the pickguard seems to have no truss rod notch;

You probably wouldn't be able to see it from that angle.

All the details fit as far as I can see ...

As for the color, it looks like a yellowed blonde nitro finish to me.

[jkingma]

The notch is so small you wouldn't see it from that angle anyway. You'd have to be looking at it almost straight on.

[wangdangdoodle]

nice, can you buy it?

[moparmutt]

Awesome
any other pics?

[jazztele]

Originally Posted by wangdangdoodle

nice, can you buy it?

I hope not! That would mean Ed's no longer with us.

There was a rumor a few months ago he had passed on, after some idiot "updated" his wikipedia entry. As far as I know, Ed's still aive and well, but pretty much retired.

What a player. My favorite tele man.

[JimiBryant]

wow, I remember an interview with Adrian Legg where he mentioned
once playing somebody's "highly unsanitary Tele" - now I understand
what he meant!

finish kinda looks like a petri dish with somebody's science project in it.

(begin Professor John Frink voice)

"ah, yes, for my science project I'm cloning (ahem!) mustard gas!"

[wangdangdoodle]

I ment can you buy it as in... is it like a tribute tele or something If theres one person that deserves a tribute tele, it's ed.

I remember all those rumours about him a few months ago on the internet... just when I first started getting into him at the beginning of the summer. Glad, he's still with us - one of my favorite Jazz guitarists.

[teleyouk]

Originally Posted by wangdangdoodle

I ment can you buy it as in... is it like a tribute tele or something If theres one person that deserves a tribute tele, it's ed.

I remember all those rumours about him a few months ago on the internet... just when I first started getting into him at the beginning of the summer. Glad, he's still with us - one of my favorite Jazz guitarists.

For me too.

[moparmutt]

what's going on with the mounting ring for the humbucker.
Does it have a screw in each corner securing it to the body or???

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does anyone know for certain what pickup he's got in the neck position?

[ryokan]

i think that humbucker is from a guild archtop -- but don't quote me on that...

[moparmutt]

I thought it was a PAF

[black_doug]

I don't think that is Ed's Tele. I saw another better pic and his is a lighter colour, not butterscotch. The pickup is a Gibson according to the tech at The Twelfth Fret, in Toronto, who installed it. He couldn't remember which model of Gibson.

[mikeps1327]

That is for sure Ed Bickert's Telecaster.
You can tell because it has an Allen Key taped to the body. Apparently this was done by the guys at the twelfth fret guitar shop in Toronto, so that he could make some kind of adjustment if he needed too. Bickert apparently left the Allen key taped on because he thought it was a part of the work they had done and didn't understand that it could be taken off (true story).

[tfaux]

Looks more like something Keith Richards would have owned.