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Who is going to the meet outside Leeds Town Hall on the 17th to see the flashy bangs and the route unveiling?

Matt and Tom, give me a shout when you are going to recce the route on bikes, would be good to catch up with y'all.
Ill be dragging a couple of lads out on this ride next year. The camping option sounds like it could be a laugh. Get the panniers out and make a weekend of it.

I've got an old Raleigh eclipse someone can borrow if short of an old ride. It's just my turbo bike, but fits the description- dt shifters etc. it's very 80s though.

I'm in! Can we finish at t'Black Sheep brewery in Masham?

Ive Just oredered some of the William Lennon shoes, I emailed them to ask if they were available in any other colour than black, and for a few more pennies they will make them out of whatever leather stock they currently have.
Still a load cheaper than the competition.

No, Im copying it. I might shove a Seymour mini humbucker up front like Keef's.

Tele's are sweet, but this is where its at baby! http://www.makenmusic.com/productImg/Telemaster_FrontFull.jpg
Got an ash jag body on the bench at the mo waiting for a nice old tele neck.

Sorry, just re-read what you wrote, you did say Custom.....
Yes I think they are nice, for something with a maple board. Just play a few or try find a Japanese one with a few years to its name. You can find brand new ones that are resonant, but the 90s Jap ones do tend to have nicer timber.

Which 72 reissue? The big headstock deluxe (looks great but isn't a tele cos of the fake wide rangers in front and back) or the custom (small headstock fake wide range at front and tele rear).
I would say yes to the latter.
Both have maple boards so have sharp attack, which Im not a fan of but thats personal opinion. They play very similar as you would expect. But having both front and rear as wide rangers doesnt give a great amount of tones.
If you have some dollar, maybe look for a second hand custom and with the money you save, find a real fender wide ranger pickup. The difference was discussed earlier in this thread but was lost when somet went wrong with the site.

If you are after a wider range of tone, I wouldn't consider the Thinline over any of the ones you have tried. The problem, as with the others you have tried (excepting the Dobro) is that they have 2 of the same pickup. The tonal variation comes only from the pickups position. I know this is the case with most guitars, but you have tried those and didnt like them. Try something with two different pickups, like a Tele or the Tele Custom. The super sharp back p/up mixed with the fat warm front p/up. I know you are after a hollow, but the difference in tone between a tele and a tele thinline is really hard to pick up in a live situation, you might be able to appreciate it, but most audiences wont. If you put flats on a tele (D'addario chromes 11s) it sounds more like a hollow body than a thinline with rounds.
So I would suggest trying a 72 custom with flats. Or a 69 thinline (the mahogany one but with normal tele pickups rather than the fake wide rangers on an ash 72)

Glad you like it, it is fun to play. I never used the back pickup, just front with a bit of tone rolled off, crank up a small valve amp and its dub heaven!

Small screws wont hold it into plasterboard. You can get big plasterboard screws that you can screw into- a bit like a rawl plug with a massive self tapping thread on the outside. They are good.

Yes'm, what do you want to know?

Celluloid is a well old material to use. Is it an old piece of kit? It was used for scratch plates on fenders till the mid 60s. It shrinks, cracks and in certain circumstances can combust. Im not saying the person selling it is wrong, just not heard of it being used for a long while. The thick lacquer might be cellulose which might be where there is some confusion. Like I say, I could be completely wrong, if so i like to see what it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBCnEh1zOGg

I dont want to sound condescending here, but life is quite long. Don't restrict yourself to anything. You think Herb Ellis and Joe Pass started out playing Jazz guitar? Some of the best thrash metal players started out playing classical and wear there influences on their sleeve. Some of the best jazz players i know started out listening and playing heavy rock. What Im trying to say is, being proficient doesn't mean you are good when it comes to music. Cross pollination is good. Your Jazz playing will get better because of the classical training and vice versa. Goforit!
Oh and good luck, its a shit business.

Its a BBE wah, really smooth classic tone. I had a bit of a thing for BBE stuff.
There is no getting away from the fact that the danelectro's were always made to be a budget guitar, cheap wooden bridge and lightweight bodies. They do play great but if you are obsessive about intonation and super low set up, you would prob need to replace the bridge with one of their modern pro bridges. The tone you get from that wooden bridge is great though. It really rounds the tone giving it a warm sound. The pickups were always so bright they cut the top of your head off in any other guitar (have seen them fitted to fenders and jackson surf guitars) but on the dano with the semi body and wooden bridge backing off the treble, they work great.

Sorry, can't believe I left that bit out. Its the 30'' scale version (short). Thanks. Im not in London so I willhave to add postage to those prices.

Im having a bit of a clear out. I bought a load of gear for recording, so none of this stuff has been gigged or even out of the house!
Tokai SG (the cheap one) was £250-selling for £150
various pedals-delays, boosters,wah's, vib-trems etc etc (pm me for specifics)
Danelectro DC 59 with case,this is the good 90s one not the modern one with allthat matte paint-£250
Very rare 80s Seiwa Bass in post box red- japanese from the ibanez factory (one of their many budget off shoots) looks like a p-bass with the ibanez roadster 4 in line headstock- £150
Danelectro Dano 63 bass red/black burst, unused! £120

@Dooks, thats what they are in shops, Ill do em for half that plus postage. Im not in LAARndon.

@Dooks, if it works for you, happy days. This is gonna sound like a right sales ploy, but i do have a BBE sonic stomp for sale as well as their opto stomp. Both going cheap as they are £100 pedals. PM me if your interested. The sonic stomp is an odd pedal- Its like taking cotton wool out of your ears.
The opto stomp is an otpical compressor, really subtle not like a dyna comp.

Digi reissue? Hard to tell the difference

It is a nice bit of kit for live use.

Different pieces of kit. If you are looking for 50s slap back, and you have a valve amp then anything will do the trick, even a boss DD3. The difference becomes massive when you are doing longer repeats, then the difference in signal degradation matters. The copicat has the signature 'thunk' as the tape turns. Its so bad its brilliant.

Haha, indeed. The last one I sold (admittedly very clean) went for £800 to a Shad's nut. He came back a week later and upgraded to the VERY limited edition Charlie Watkins Gold copicat. And I thought old people couldn't afford their heating bills!

Definitely the most authentic sounding piece of kit. If your mate still has them, tell him it wouldn't be a bad time to shift em with the Shadows reunion tour kicking off, those 60 somethings are obsessed!