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  2. Very unique guitar. All white, fretboard and all.
    This is just the mockup with a plywood body. Real thing is gonna be maple.
    No sound holes. No knobs. Just straight to the live Dirty Fingers pickup.

    This thing has one setting - GO
  3. Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]
    Well, Fender actually bought Gretsch in 2002 haha.

    It's a custom Tele built Fender's senior master builder Paul Waller (not to be mistaken with Paul Weller lol). Apparently Dallas spoke to him about a design idea he had in mind for Bono, and Paul happened to have this design already in his portfolio.

    You can read about the whole thing here and also here (courtesy of @anstratdubh1979 with first had info) and here with first hand info from BonoComet. Bono got the guitar right before the Anaheim gigs and used it for the remaining of 360's last leg.


    Thanks! re-read the entire thread.


  4. What do you mean by this? Did you see a video of it?
  5. It is just in the recesses of my mind. I think it was because Bono 'donated' his Emerald Green Gretsch publicly as an act of charity and some of the Gretsch people decided to replace it with another one. I believe Dallas then intervened and said what he really wanted was an emerald green acoustic Gretsch. That is what you have above!
  6. Originally posted by miryclay:It is just in the recesses of my mind. I think it was because Bono 'donated' his Emerald Green Gretsch publicly as an act of charity and some of the Gretsch people decided to replace it with another one. I believe Dallas then intervened and said what he really wanted was an emerald green acoustic Gretsch. That is what you have above!
    If you're talking about his guitar giveaway to Adam Bevell (or, as I like to call it, the "Nashville Incident"), that happened a few weeks after he got the Tele we're discussing.
  7. Thanks for clarifying! There was plenty happening between 2009 and 2011!
  8. Originally posted by Macphistfly:[image]
    Very unique guitar. All white, fretboard and all.
    This is just the mockup with a plywood body. Real thing is gonna be maple.
    No sound holes. No knobs. Just straight to the live Dirty Fingers pickup.

    This thing has one setting - GO
    Oh wow! Looking great even in plywood But why do you say no sound holes? Is the final product going to be semi-hollow but in a BB King kinda way?
  9. Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]
    Oh wow! Looking great even in plywood But why do you say no sound holes? Is the final product going to be semi-hollow but in a BB King kinda way?
    You got it.
    It’s a super high gain output, Dirty Fingers!
    Jack is on the side too. Controlling volume with volume pedal.
  10. Wow, aggressive concept. I'm very much looking forward to seeing it finished! (not as much as you I guess! haha).

    It's surprising you're planning to do the body in maple instead of mahogany which would be a more typical choice of wood. Any reasoning behind it?

    And BTW I just remembered about the Herdim picks, had totally forgotten. I'll throw you a whatsapp msg later, sorry
  11. 335 and 333 Gibsons are both made from maple.


  12. You may be attached to all of them, but if I were you I'd keep the bass, best acoustic and Strat - and sell all the rest to buy an American Tele. A Semi-Hollowbody. And a Les Paul or Gretsch Duo Jet.