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The HumboCaster
This Tele went through a few incarnations, but ended up with:
- Fender Candy Apple Red double-bound '62 RI body
- Fender '62 RI neck
- Three Gibson humbucker pickups; Classic '57s in the neck and middle positions, and a '57 Classic Plus in the bridge.
- Black GraphTech saddles
- 3 on-off mini-switches (with special rubber-tipped collars) for each pickup.
- Chrome volume and tone knobs topped with black abalone.
September, 2006:
The HiloCaster Redux
I decided to rethink the
original HiloCaster I built back in 2003. This "less-complicated" version has:
- Fender Old Lake Placid Blue double-bound '62 RI body
- Fender '62 RI neck
- Two T.V. Jones HiLo'Tron pickups with Gretsch pickup surrounds
- An original Gretsch B5 Bigsby
- A 'half-cut' original '73 Fender Tele bridge
- Electrosocket Jack Plate
- Two real Gretsch "G-arrow" knobs
Fall, 2003...
Here are the specs for the original HiLoCaster:
- MightMite CherryBurst Ash Body
- Fender MIM Rosewood neck with Klusons
- Electrosocket Jack Plate
- Two T.V. Jones HiLo'Tron pickups with Gretsch pickup surrounds
- Bigsby B5 with Fender Mustang bridge (you can see that the back of the bridge has been dremeled off in the close up above. The screws below it are just there to fill in the
string-through holes. The ferrules on the back are nice and tight, so they won't pop out)
- A fabulous custom butnut (thanks again, Brian!) control plate with four holes and a "HiLoCaster" donut
- Short Les Paul-type throw switch, three 500K pots (neck volume, bridge volume, master tone) with real Gretsch "G-arrow" knobs
- Custom-designed black-white-black pickguard
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