SurfBandBill
Joined: Mar 15, 2006
Posts: 1487
San Francisco
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Posted on Nov 03 2009 03:20 PM
I saw Built to Spill on Sunday night in SF, and I couldn't take my eyes off Brett Netson's clearly custom-built guitar. (you might also know him from Caustic Resin) Could it be an amazing surf guitar? I sure think so...
Here are two pics of him using it with BTS:
From what I can see, it's an offset body, with a strat pickup at the neck and a P90 or Jazzmaster pickup at the bridge, Fender bigsby-style bridge, single volume and three way top hat switch. Looks like a Strat neck (probably).
I don't know about you guys, but I sure as hell would like to give that thing a spin through my Showman and tank.
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El-Salvaje
Joined: May 22, 2007
Posts: 73
berlin germany
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Posted on Nov 03 2009 03:38 PM
It also looks like it´s a "neck thru body" doesn´t it ?
What was this guy´s sound approach?, rather bluesy I guess from his Bronze
Slide...cool axe indeed!
Vibes
Al.
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andreuthegiant
Joined: May 27, 2007
Posts: 254
Madrid, Spain
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Posted on Nov 03 2009 04:40 PM
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Surfgitar
Joined: Mar 16, 2007
Posts: 1342
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
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Posted on Nov 04 2009 06:39 AM
Check the positioning of the jack plate. I wonder why he wanted it set sideways?
— CUTBACK
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JakeDobner
Joined: Feb 26, 2006
Posts: 12159
Seattle
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Posted on Nov 04 2009 09:19 AM
Surfgitar
Check the positioning of the jack plate. I wonder why he wanted it set sideways?
He has the cable wrapped behind his strap, which makes my next point moot. But when I first saw that I thought it might be to prevent the strap from coming out when stepped on. With the angle it is at now, it would have to take a very weird movement to come out, which it placed the normal way you just need to step on it from sort of behind and move forwardish.
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morphball
Joined: Dec 23, 2008
Posts: 3324
Pittsboro, NC
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Posted on Nov 04 2009 10:08 AM
Digging the weird ax and the Christian Death shirt. (I'm admittedly still a fan of the Roz-era group.)
— Mike
http://www.youtube.com/morphballio
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Surfgitar
Joined: Mar 16, 2007
Posts: 1342
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
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Posted on Nov 04 2009 02:03 PM
Jake, I though the jack plate may have been positioned to allow less restriction of the bigby arm, but that ain't it either.
Does he have Free Bird tattooed across his nuckles? 
— CUTBACK
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Kawentzmann
Joined: Feb 27, 2006
Posts: 1054
Berlin, Germany
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Posted on Nov 04 2009 04:12 PM
Its not a neck through. If you look very carefully at the pocket you see the familiar shape of a Fender bolt on joint. The hue is just very similar.
— The Exotic Guitar of Kahuna Kawentzmann
You can get the boy out of the Keynes era, but you can’t get the Keynes era out of the boy.
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SurfBandBill
Joined: Mar 15, 2006
Posts: 1487
San Francisco
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Posted on Nov 04 2009 06:44 PM
Al - he plays pretty much exclusively Indie Rock as far as I'm aware. In the words of Ron Burgundy "He's kind of a big deal"
SurfGitar & Jake - I have no clue about that jackplate. My guess is there is concern with the innards of the jack being too near the screws for the tailpiece.
Kahuna -- Good eye. I hadn't really given it an especially close look.
~B~
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zvhouse
Joined: Aug 08, 2011
Posts: 1
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Posted on Aug 08 2011 01:50 AM
Year late on this...but I just stumbled across the forum tonight. It's a Hamilton Guitar (http://hamiltonguitarsonline.com/) Custom maker out of Boise, ID. Apprenticed with Bolin, set out on his own a few years ago. Beautiful work. The neck is salvaged from a thrashed guitar of Brett's, definitely bolt on.
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