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Featured Guitar
Hear this guitar on Steve Earle's Grammy winning album "The Revolution Starts...Now", available on Artemis Records. Here's what Roscoe has to say about his Stonetree: "The Stonetree guitar is a handmade
instrument. It’s not a collection of parts. It plays and feels like a brand new
old guitar. It’s got a boatload of character. It plays like a fine acoustic, it
sings when it’s unplugged. The Stonetree has made me want to play it from the
first time I picked it up and it just keeps feeling better." A unique feature on this guitar is the custom wound Fralin pickups. The traditional bridge pickup has tons of beef and twang, while the P-90 neck pickup is fat and warm--not thin or weak. The neck is underwound to match the output of bridge and hum canceling in the middle position. The end result is an extremely versatile 2 pickup guitar that is outstanding for many styles of music. Soundclips: Mesa Blue Angel Clean Marshall Dirty Marshall
Body: 2 piece double bound lightweight swamp ash Neck: quartersawn hard maple shaped like his '66 Fingerboard: Birdseye maple slab, 7 1/4" radius, abalone markers Fretwire: vintage ~ narrow width (.080")/medium height (.045") Nut: 1 9/16" wide, bone Dunlop Straplocks Tuning machines: Gotoh 14:1 vintage style Bridge: Callaham vintage Tele w/compensated brass saddles Pickups: Custom wound by Lindy Fralin ~ P-90 in humbucker case & Blues Special Tele bridge Electronics: CTS audio taper potentiometers, Switchcraft 3-way selector, Electrosocket output jack Finish: 2-tone sunburst nitrocellulose lacquer on body, gun stock oil finish on neck Most of our customers order this with a modern compound fingerboard and medium/tall frets, but Roscoe prefers the vintage radius and fretwire, high action and .012"-.056" strings...as Roscoe says, "Resistance is a good thing!" Recent member to the club is
Mark McKay. Roscoe produced Mark's latest album 'Shimmer' and turned him onto
the magic of the Stonetree. Upon receiving the instrument, Mark had this to say,
"The axe arrived today...wow. I have never
played such an exquisitely balanced and ballsy instrument....I can't put it
down....thanks to the two of you for envisioning it and building it."
Now
it is your turn... Variations on a theme:
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Contact Scott Platts at 307-326-8170 or scott@stonetreeguitars.com . Stonetree Custom, LLC P.O. Box 1201 Saratoga, WY 82331Copyright © 2002-2008
Stonetree Custom Guitars
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This guitar was spec'd by Eric 'Roscoe' Ambel. He knows Teles
and he knows tone. He owns several Teles, both vintage and custom built. This is
Roscoe's vision of the the perfect one--it embodies the best features of all of
his teles into one guitar. When I first met with Roscoe to discuss the design I
showed him a couple of hotrodded designs I had built and he told me to 'backup'
and simplify--because that is exactly what makes a Tele so happening. "Just look
at the things that make it cool and accentuate them!" Sound advice indeed.
Shouldering one of these at a gig makes a statement--forget the smoke and
mirrors and stand back, 'cause I came here to play!
