Extremely belated NGD...Jaden Rose Tele

digitalscream

EDIT: Apologies, images aren't working because somebody's complained about copyright content on my image server and it's been shut down. I'm working on it...

Sorry it's taken me 6 months to get this up here...finally figured out how to take some vaguely decent shots of the body.

Badly-lit shot of the whole thing:


That finish!!!!


No, really...

(sorry for the dust...didn't think the camera would pick it up)

Lovely headstock, with laser-cut aluminium logo:


Just because the wenge grain is beautiful:


Posh neck:


Gotta love that plain wood grain:


Specs:

Swamp ash body / wenge top, driftwood finish (Jaden's own)
5-piece wenge/purpleheart neck
Macassar ebony fretboard + stainless steel frets
Seymour Duncan Little '59s (my new favourite pickups)
Gotoh hardware, gun-metal grey
...and, most importantly, the pickup selector in the right place

guitarfishbay

Looks great!

How do you find those stainless steel frets?

digitalscream

guitarfishbay said:

Looks great!

How do you find those stainless steel frets?

Well, that's not a question I expected to be asked, but...yes, they're great. Could stand to be a little lower-profile, I suppose, but I'm not (usually) a great fan of really tall frets. They really do work beautifully on this guitar, though

monquixote

That looks awesome. 

Would absolutely love something like that (provided the neck wasn't too shreddy).

Bucket

That's beautiful.

I'm a real sucker for a wenge neck as well, my bass has one and it's just such a lovely-feeling wood.

digitalscream

monquixote said:

That looks awesome. 

Would absolutely love something like that (provided the neck wasn't too shreddy).

It's actually not a thin, shreddy neck like my Series 2. Mind you, it's not as fat as a normal Tele, either.

xmrchi

I played that 5 months ago! You have well and truly failed in your responsibilities to the Fretboard.

It's a bloody lovely guitar tho!

digitalscream

mrchi said:

I played that 5 months ago! You have well and truly failed in your responsibilities to the Fretboard.

It's a bloody lovely guitar tho!

I know, I know...it plays much better now, because I'd screwed up the setup before the show in Birmingham (trying to improve it...utter fail).

axisus

That looks ......... awesome!!!!

vasselmeyer

I remember having a play on that in Birmingham. It's a beautiful piece of work and immaculately built. But that skinny neck and the position of the pickup selector...

digitalscream

vasselmeyer said:

I remember having a play on that in Birmingham. It's a beautiful piece of work and immaculately built. But that skinny neck and the position of the pickup selector...

See, I don't think it's that skinny. I guess I'm comparing it to my Series 2, which is really skinny.

And I'm sorry, but you're wrong. The pickup selector is in exactly the right place

guitarfishbay

digitalscream said:

guitarfishbay said:

Looks great!

How do you find those stainless steel frets?

Well, that's not a question I expected to be asked, but...yes, they're great. Could stand to be a little lower-profile, I suppose, but I'm not (usually) a great fan of really tall frets. They really do work beautifully on this guitar, though

Cheers.  I don't like really tall frets either, partly why I'm interested in SS if I ever need a guitar refretted (which might be my strat in the next year or two at this rate).

guitarfishbay

digitalscream said:

vasselmeyer said:

I remember having a play on that in Birmingham. It's a beautiful piece of work and immaculately built. But that skinny neck and the position of the pickup selector...

See, I don't think it's that skinny. I guess I'm comparing it to my Series 2, which is really skinny.

And I'm sorry, but you're wrong. The pickup selector is in exactly the right place

Yeah I think the selector looks in a good place, out of the way while playing but within reach.

The original Tele control plate is a frustrating design if you switch from bridge to neck often.  There is a company that does a better spaced one though.

Roland

That is the most beautiful guitar I have ever seen, and the body silhouette is an inspiration. I agree about the switch separation, although I would prefer to have it at the tail end of the controls

monquixote

I don't see it on the website. 

Is he planning to do it as a production model?

I could imagine it would open up a whole new market segment to him.

digitalscream

monquixote said:

I don't see it on the website. 

Is he planning to do it as a production model?

I could imagine it would open up a whole new market segment to him.

Nope, no plans to make it a production model - although I've been telling him it'd be quite popular for a while...

I do have another one in the works, which is much less "fancy" - that might see a bit more traction.

ThorpyFX

wow, i have to say that is incredibly beautiful!!

DLM

• axisus 11:48AM
• Bucket 11:34AM
• guitarfishbay 12:02PM
• monquixote 12:26PM
• mrchi 11:38AM
• Roland 12:13PM
• thorpy6 12:41PM
• vasselmeyer 11:55AM

Would the eight people who've posted in this thread before me care to explain exactly why they have not wowed the OP?!

Is there a fault with the forum software?! 

vasselmeyer

Wow shamed...

mike_l

vasselmeyer said:

Wow shamed...

LOL'd cos I've never heard of "Wow shamed" before.

And it made I chuckle.

DLM

Ah yes, you're all coming out of the woodwork with your Wows now you've been shamed into it!