My All-Time Favorite Guitar | JAY'S TOOLBOX
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- Опубліковано 4 сер 2017
- This is the crown jewel of my guitar collection. Hear it now :)
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Thanks for playing with so much joy!
Jay, as a bass player, I can appreciate everything you present in your videos. It is easily apparent that you are incredibly connected to your style and your instrument perfectly allows you to express yourself in the way you want. I find this most inspiring. Keep up this amazing content.
Your clear love for your instrument and your joy in playing are truly inspiring.
I love when someone gets excited about a great guitar. Killer playing, man!
Haha, I dare anyone to play that guitar for more than 2 seconds without getting excited, haha. Thanks for watching!
@@JayLeonardJ are you filipino ?
WOW I have never heard a tele do that either! Those clean tones are gorgeous! I'll stop and get a bucket to catch the drool now....
I was fantizing about having a telecaster with a bigsby in the same colour as yours and this video appeared in my feed. I'll take it as a sign.
You are right about the ice pick sound and how this guitar does not have it. You guitar does have a sweet sound to it! Have you tried any other Bigsby Tellys and do they have that rounded tone as well?
I CAN'T REMEMBER WHEN I'VE SEEN A MORE INTENSE PICKER WHO SIMPLY LOVES HIS GUITAR LIKE JAY !! U R JUST AMAZING AND I'VE WATCHED THIS COMPLETE VIDEO WITH EYES AND MOUTH WIDE OPEN , JAY COMPLETELY MESMERIZED ME TO THE MAX !!!!!!
Eloquent playing and joyful passion; great to watch and inspires me to remember just to enjoy playing.
Really enjoyed this, what a guitar... Pleasure to watch your playing and this guitar also, thanks for posting.
That grab 5:07
You put that beauty to good use.I have an older G&L ASAT Classic. I'm having my tech guy put on a bigsby. Looking forward to it. Tanks for the video.
What a team you and that Telecaster make! Your blue Bigsby Tele is also rather gorgeous!
I'm hoping that the next time you are in the UK you will be on That Pedal Show. I can already hear Dan going crazy over your Tele playing and tones!
Now THAT would a real blast!
I know I'm late to the show on this one but That is a sweetheart.!. 👍👍
THIS IS INSPIRATIONAL!
the tone and your skill has inspired me to get a tele and bigsby.
after all the shredders and pentatonic addicts, it's so good to see someone with so much enthusiasm and sensitivity
LOVE IT!
Masterful picking and plucking, very inspiring
Your skill, matched with your joy the instrument are infectious!
Favorite Guitar channel on all of youtube. Completely inspiring! The fact that you only have 8.5k subs is an absolute joke! I've never seen a channel that deserves to blow up more than this one does! Thank you, keep up the phenomenal work!
Lloyd Graves agree. He’s one of the best players/all around players and great demo guy etc. I hope he remembers us when he gets tons of subs😉.
The best Telly I've ever heard! Unbelievable! Thx Jay!
Jay I so enjoyed your music! I myself love the Telecaster, I've played for 42 years and although I own every type made lol, I always go to my tele. I have a inexpensive tele made by Austin guitars. It has a tiger Maple fret board on top of a maple neck, my pickups are wilkinsons, it has the punch and beautiful roundness that is unlike any other I've heard , till I listened to yours. No other guitar I've got or built sounds like that, I do my own electrical work and pick up combos. You are definitely gifted sir it's a pleasure to listen and watch how much you enjoy playing music. Makes me Happy . Thank you so much , looking forward to seeing more videos and maybe soon we can do a session together? Via new cell phone tech. God bless you
Love your energy, love your playing, love your Tele!!!
Very informative video, Jay. Loved your insights/observations regarding volume and sound and how the Bigsby mod effects the sound. I've owned a 1969 Tele Trimline since 1976 and related to many insights and impressions you spoke about. Thank you for the honest review.
Great! Always happy when I see you posted a vid! 😄
Always great to read your comments too :)
Beautiful guitar. Amazingly warm and punchy. You are understandably proud of her. The Dark Side sounded crazy good (I'm hunting for one for my own board).
Yeah, that Dark Side was definitely my surprise hit pedal of the year. I'm amazed how much I use it!
That jam face 👌 beautiful
Love it! You’re awesome. Thanks for sharing.
Love your videos. Your absolutely one of my favorites.
Love your enthusiasm bro! That guitar is exactly what I am looking for right now, except not the vintage price. Bigsby, the pickup character... super happy for you.
Thanks :)
Jay Leonard J, you weapon! I have to learn that Jazz piece.
I love Telecasters. And this is one of if not the best one I ever heard. Great playing too.
Ya buddy so nice Jay!!
This is a prime example of the marvel that is called the Telecaster!!
I have a 2017 American Pro and I love it but I am looking for a heritage guitar and would love one with a Bigsby!!
Thanks for sharing!!
you're awesome dude! I just got ah tele with a Bigsby... I'm just learning ♥✌
Great Demo. Beauty Guitar. 👏
Wow. Amazing sound.
love the channel, I just saw the sub count and I don't understand why you don't have more subs man, your inspirational man keep it up
Man, you are an inspiration! Keep on!
I'm rewiring my Tele using the 50s Gibson diagram now I've witnessed your sound...WOW!
Hope it works out for you :) It's a very handy little mod
I have a Telecaster which I modified d Bigsby....it has long sustain and tuning stability..... With Jays skills I’m a Rock Star lol... Great Video Man👍
Never has a guitar been so matched to a player.
Wonderful
Really appreciate it!
Haha 200 thumbs up. 👍 jay deserves more than 9k subs. Soon you'll be at 100k. I'm sure of it.
Thanks so much!!! Great to hear from you again: hope you're doing great!
Great guitar. Great playing. Great video.
You're guitar playing is unreal. Thanks.
Really appreciate it!
Your playing is fucking geniously awesome!! Congrats dude
You have that same energy as Tony Emmanuel with your own amazing musical chops. I always look forward to your videos. That's Tele has Mojo for sure!
Thanks so much :)
this is a very special guitar, you can tell just by looking at it that it's a very special instrument, the way it sounds too is incredibly nice.
It really is: definitely love this thing. Thanks so much for writing and rock on :)
Love your reviews awesome !!!
They really made great fender strats and teles in 1968. Proud owner of a 1968 olympic white strat🙌
My first electric guitar was a mid 80s Olympic White Strat! Thanks for writing!
Killer playing and guitar. I want a '67 telecaster for the year I was born.
great guitar Jay! have you done a video on the blue Bigsby Tele? I love that one...
Best Tele I've ever heard... that neck pickup is just wow... and your playing Jay... we really did miss you here
I know: I'm always searching for another vintage Tele with that same sound. Hopefully, one day I'll figure out the secret to it's awesomeness!
JayLeonardJ could be the player that makes it sound so great too. 😉
IMO it's the sum of everything: your playing, the guitar, the amp, the woods, strings and bigsby...
Jaysus! I just checked my Teles, and yes, they have neck pickups. I never noticed or used that shit before. The bridge pickup is where I live. A Tele with a Bigsby is as unnatural as a Tele with a humbucker. That Tele must be heavy, dudes; I don't want to wear that all night. Almost as bad as a Les Paul.
Hi @@JayLeonardJ Is this tele with alnico 5 or alnico 3 pickups?
i have only used les paul all my life but a telecaster sounds so cool and even better if the tele has bigsby.. great tone Jay
Putting a Thinline together and trying to work out the Bigsby problem. You were hugely helpful. I'd like it to be a very special guitar: One of those things that make you go "mmm".
Really good Gilmour solo. He's the best. I'd guess part of your neck pickup's specialness is owed to the idiosyncratic wiring. Heard there's something similar going on with gold foil pickups.
That guitar is lucky it found you! Cheers!
sick vid! great playing
super duper!! lovin that , man!
Great playing. Dang.
This video made me happy yo!
What a beautiful guitar.
i can watch this all day!
great playing man
Jay totally dig your Tele. My first electric is a 73 Telecaster Blond with with white pick guard and a maple fretboard. I got it the day Ronald Reagen was shot. It was later dubbed by an old roomate as Hinckley. Simillar sound to yours but no bigsby. I've had problems with the neck for a long time it had what for lack of a better term a twist or dogleg in it. Finally had one of the best luthiers in Cincinnati fix it. He had to wand down the fret board and refinish it to get it right, I am battling it to get the action right. It's higher than I like it to be but it still works great for funk rhythm which happens a lot and chicken picking (what little I do) I've been considering trying to get a new neck for it. The rework was great but I can't drop the strings too much more or I get to close to the bridge pickup, and the evil feedback starts when a drive pedal is on. If you had to replace the neck on your Tele where would you turn to get a replacement? How can I get Hinckley up and running again. It's such a wonderful sounding guitar that I hate to limit it to my James Brown phases.
you get major point for the dark side and the Floyd style chops 😁
Wow that is so different from your blue Tele. The in between position reminds me of Robin Ford's blonde 1960, which is my favourite sounding Telecaster. The neck is much nicer too, much more vocal, less strident.
What a killer player!
Sounds funky great tone ✌🏻
Gorgeous guitar! I'm looking at one of these but I'm kinda hung up on the string thru + high break angle being a huge part of tele tone. I bet the shallow break angle makes it really slinky to play though. 👍
What a great guitar, it really sounds like anything a guitar should sound like and great playing too!
I’ve planned to get me a bigsby on my Cole Clark culprit Tele thinline which is a great guitar as well. Hope it sounds a bit like yours afterwards...
SO Cool! Never heard a Thinline Bigbsy before: Let me know how it turns out!!
Man you light up a bad day!
Great Guitar! Great Vid!
Great tone
Love it. I want to buy the new Vintera 60s style Tele with the bigsby. Basically an affordable version of your guitar.
Your playing and energy are addictive.
Ooh, haven't seen the Vintera 60s with bigsbys, I gotta check that out!
If I was in charge of Fender, there would be a Jay Bigsby Telecaster signature model on general principle. Awesome video!
Dang, I gotta find a way to get you in charge of Fender cause that would make my life, haha :)
Absolutely killer playing!! Love how into it you get. Have you played one of the Vintera series 60s Teles with the Bigsby? If so, how does it compare to the real deal?
My favorite guitar is a 2011 Ronaldo Custom Telecaster. As the story goes, I visited his shop to ask him to build my dream guitar ... a spalted maple topped mahogany body, a fat maple capped neck, a vintage set up. To my surprise, he goes in the back and pulls out a Tele body and fat neck about half way complete. Ronaldo shows me a book-matched flame, spalted maple top on a one-piece Honduras swirly mahogany body. The flame maple fretboard capped a flame maple neck. I just knew it was "the one". It was finished a half year later and I've loved and played it a lot over the past decade.
I think you let me play this at a jam once in HK. Awesome guitar, great playing.
Most likely :) Miss those old HK days: thanks for watching the page dude!!!
Lovely guitar bro! Great video!
Dud! You have some sic Guitars! This and the Lake Placid Blue Tele are to die for. Like you didnt already know that. LOL! thanx for sharing gives me something to work for! :)
Thanks so much for writing. They are definitely special guitars and absolute joys to play 👍
I saw your blue tele with a fender style Bigsby the other day and ive been daydreaming of it ever since. I love that sound and ive always wanted a Bigsby since I was a teenager listening to Isaac Brock (modest mouse). That amazing single coil sound with the added expression of a Bigsby is all i can think of lol. I looked up tele with a Bigsby and what do i see but your video talking about how great the combination is. Thanks for showing me my next guitar! Anyways i think ill watch the video now lol EDIT: Great now im really really hooked!
I always wrote off Bisby Teles, but the second I played one in real life. I absolutely fell in love! Thanks for writing :)
I love your videos about guitars. You are a passionate player with superb skills! I learned a whole lot about telecasters from you, thank you for this!
About this gorgeous neck pickup, what's its DC resistance?
It's a very strange reading: 7.1K. Crazy high for something that clear and bright under a brass cover.... Something funky going on in there...
I'm a big Jazzmaster guy and I really believe that the whole magic of those guitars is the crazy bridge and trem that suck away the overtones and sustain (in a good way!). Seems like the Bigsby and Jazzmaster/Jaguar bridge do a bit of the same for your Tele! It really does sound more... *relaxed* for it, I think.
Yeah, there is a neat little response to the Jazzmaster bridge. However, I can't say enough great things about the Mastery bridge as well. Different tones for different needs :)
Damn that sounds good!
Comments on pre amp/EQ pedals, and their place in a pedal rig? Specifically the JHS Colorbox vs others. Thx.
Great playing, you can't hide that you love it - very motivating 👍
Great idea!
¡Eres un maestro!
so awesome!
Sounds killer
Just wow!!!
Dude love the tone and the tele. I'm a tele guy myself & really want to get one with a bigsby next. One question though, what gauge strings do you generally use? Or does it depend on the guitar? I put 11-49 on all mine.
Hey Jay. Guitar is sexy as all get out. I was wondering if you could do a video on your current pedalboard set up. Would love to see that. Maybe call out your must-haves versus the boxes that are always changing.
By far my biggest request! I definitely got to get that done soon!
Amazing guitar player
Very special axe!
I'd like to see you review and play more guitars from past and present
Those are the most fun vids to make :)
Man, that is a gorgeous sounding guitar. Great playing too! I've been wanting to get a Bigsby tele, but thinking of moding my partscaster Tele first....but dang, why can Fender sell Tele bridges for $16, but a bridge for bigsby (with the low back of the ashtray so the strings won't rub from the Bigsby) so much more? Head scratcher...
Yo jay
I just had my friend wire my control plate in reverse, the same way you did, after watching your vids. It looks a lot better and makes more sense to have it that way!
We also carved a belly cut and arm contour onto it, then we painted it bright blue. Might put a Bigsby on it next!
Great stuff, man
Sounds like it's been a killer project! The control plate switch is especially helpful for bigsby teles since they tend to get in the way of the volume and tone knobs when stock :)
JayLeonardJ I’m probably not gonna install a Bigsby, but I love being able to control the volume and tone this way. It’s faster, plus the pickup switch doesn’t get in my way either. Also, we cut belly and arm contours onto it and refinished it bright blue. It looks killer
Awesome!!!
oh man, i've never heard about the parka mod, i'm so glad i clicked this video, i'm always in love with rolling down the volume on my SG , sounds great, but the treble bleed is just a no no for me, way to much treble, and i already play with loads of treble! thanks !
I have Nash telecaster I installed Dfix kit for Bigsby.... Sustain is a lot better & strings became tight specially on G & B strings and no worries of getting out of tune no matter how u dive that tremolo...
Good stuff.
i subscribe because the "plucking string face" you make when you enjoy playing..
Like your guitar 👏
Jay, really missed your vids! Great to see you back! Isn't that jag bridge a pain in the ass?
I put some heat shrink tubing around the posts to help with the sway and that helps a lot: I also shaved a bit of the rear so the strings don't hit the bridge on route to the Bigsby. Still, 9/10 times, I'll just use a Mastery... Best invention ever :)
As a fellow Mastery user I can't agree more ;)
Too much messing around. Not twangy enough for a Tele, although it does have a nice tone to it.
It's been too long Jay. Great Vid
Yeah! Great to be back :)