joebonni wrote:

how about an old gibson les paul custom yeah ......... nice to too

joe bonni

I learned to play on a Les Paul. When I first decided to pick up guitar a LP was my guitar of choice. But when I started playing Surf I quickly realized I needed something different. For me, my Jazzmaster is number one followed by my Gretsch, Strat and Tele in that order.

I love teles!

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Nice collection Arny! I think Tele's are probably the most versatile guitar there is, but alas mine has no Bigsby so it doesn't work for surf as well as it could.

@Noel & Surfskater: Thanx for the compliments, I will send them to the 'boss' aka my wife

Lucky me, she supports my expensive hobby
and keeps my expensives in line with my wallet. So it was either some new pickups for one of my teles and my Gretsch, or 2 cheap flights + hotel to Surfer Joe Festival. Hard choice, but I choose the pups ....

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Greg, what do you want to know about it?
Never thought about the Jail Guitar Doors project, but Joe & Wayne are two of my alltime heroes. Didn't Billy Bragg had something to do with that too?

Talking about heroes, where is the signature Link Wray Dano Longhorn or Supro? Would love to have one of those

Here's the original Fender pressrelease from jan 2011 for the Wayne Kramer strat. I think this answers most of your questions:

Fender introduces a replica of the starred-and-striped Stratocaster guitar that infamous MC5 guitarist and Detroit proto-punk Wayne Kramer used back in the late 1960s and early 1970s to kick out the jams and kill hate. It bears his distinctive US flag finish, with a red-and-white striped body and white-stars-on-blue-background pickguard and headstock.

"Every band needs its own identity," Kramer says of his homemade design. "When I founded the MC5 and we started to play out, I wanted to develop a look. I was a big fan of Pete Townshend, and I noticed that Pete had a sport coat made out of the Union Jack motif - the British flag - and I thought, 'What a great idea, but I'm American.'

"I figured my motif could be the American flag, the stars and stripes, and so I decided to paint my guitar in that color scheme to advertise my patriotism and total opposition to the direction the country was going in 1968."

Special features include a roaring Seymour Duncan '59 humbucking middle pickup and a commemorative neck plate engraved with "This Tool Kills Hate." Other features include an alder body, lacquer body finish, maple neck with C shape and large '70s-style headstock, 21-fret rosewood fingerboard with 7.25" radius and vintage-style frets, vintage-style single-coil Stratocaster neck and bridge pickups, American Vintage hard-tail string-through-body bridge, Fender/Schaller vintage-style 'F' tuners and chrome hardware. Deluxe gig bag included.

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Hi Greg,
It is pretty balanced, not really louder but the middle position (bucker alone) has a totally different tone than the rest of the 5 switch options. Great lead tone. The rest of the options sound pretty good too, especially bucker with neck pup. Really nice hendrix funky tone. Sounds great if you want to immitated the Dick Dale version of Hendrix's '3rd Stone from the Sun'.
Overall it isn't really a DD sounding surf Strat.

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Noel wrote:

SanomaSurf wrote:

I love the Tele w/Bigsby for surf/garage/rock & roll. Any other love for the Tele?

Yes. Lots.

Thanks, Noel. You can tell I'm the new guy in the forum! Thanks for the heads up on the search options. Still, there's always something to say about the Telecaster

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I notice there's a lot of Gretsch fans on here, which I'm chuffed about. I own a 5125 which I originally bought for Rockabilly, and I'd often wondered whether it was suitable for surf, but as it turns out, it is indeed, from what I've read. Time to dig her out again. I haven't played in a while.

The other guitar I always liked was just the plain old surf green strat, preferably with maple fingerboard. Gonna pick up one of those one day.

^^^ That gold sparkle strat up there is great.

I wonder - what do you lot think of things like Phantom guitars? I think these are pretty cool for surf too.

Phantom Guitars

Last edited: Jun 18, 2014 17:04:48

My beauty

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Heres the surf guitar fleet. The surfcaster gets the most use followed by the Jazz master. The Tele is hiding but knows its my number one for everything else. Long live Telecasters.......

I am not obsolete, I am RETRO....