Not exactly a NGD day, but....

[Mark Wein]

A Facebook friend who builds guitars (Kinghat Guitars) asked if I wanted to play test one of his "Business Coupe" models. I dig it. Roasted maple neck, swamp ash body, Glendale hardware and McNelly pickups. It's here on kind of an indefinite loan. I'm taking it to work tonight.

 

[bsman]

I like the pickguard - has sort of an Art Deco/Beetlejuice vibe.

 

[LeftyTom]

HNLoanerGD!

 

[bsman]

Every time the builder brings up the “loan”, quickly change the subject!

 

[jelloman]

8)

 

[jp_nyc]

I dig the body and pickguard. Mixing the 50s streamline and 80s Memphis results in a cool anti-design aesthetic that usually doesn’t work so well.

 

[DFB]

 

[Chad]

I'm digging it. Roasted maple is just so awesome. Playing my black tele with roasted maple right now.

 

[The Uke Player]

Fenderesque without obviousness.

 

[Grant Gross]

Sweet looking git-fiddle.

 

[Aahzz]

I dig that

 

[Tiltsta]

Cool. I love the pickup combination on that thing. I want to try one.

 

[Grant Harding]

Is that 1 steel saddle and 2 brass ones?

Cool guitar. Nice and quirky like me.

 

[sunvalleylaw]

I like the look a lot. does it play and sound nice?

 

[Mark Wein]

So far (to answer a few questions). The neck pickup is awesome. The bridge pickup sounds nice but is kind of anemic. Not sure why there is one steel bridge saddle. I’m going to look on the website. It plays great, although there is a small amount of fret sprout. That might settle down in a few days though as it acclimates.

 

[smurfco]

LOVE it.

 

[Gary Blanchard]

That looks really nice; I hope you'll post some playing with it.

 

[telecaster911]

That looks great!

 

[335clone]

So it's a Tele, right?



Looks ok, but it's not exactly revolutionary.


The steel saddle is a common mod. Some people feel that a brass saddle is too dark for the E/A strings, and that steel (or aluminum sometimes) adds some brightness to them. There are dozens of threads about mixed saddles on TDPRI.

 

[Denverdave]