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Post by johnnyqb on Oct 3, 2008 23:33:13 GMT -6
I bought #090 used a few days ago, and jammed with it in my band tonight. It is, like Devin Hester, ridiculous. I have had Fralins before, but they never sounded like this. This tele has mouth-watering tone, and I can't say enough about Chris' electronics--the smooth taper all up and down the two control knobs is invaluable when playing with people. This is also my first flipped control plate, and it is natural as can be, this way. I always feel a neck with the web of my left hand, all the way up to the headstock. I have never felt necks so smoothly shaped right up through and above the first fret like a Rich Rice shaped and finished neck. My two other guitars, which are really nice, were immediately rendered superfluous by this Rice guitar. Chris called it "oh-nine-oh" in the clip in the Rice gallery, and it indeed deserves two "ohs" in its name....
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Post by Rich on Oct 5, 2008 11:45:57 GMT -6
Glad you are diggin' it! I liked it so much that we built a very similar one right afterward, but aged. It's for sale on our website. Hope you enjoy this guitar, John. It has a great vibe to it.
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Post by johnnyqb on Oct 7, 2008 20:08:28 GMT -6
oh, the joys of a fat-necked Rice tele. I have never played a real vintage tele (and don't feel any need to), so I don't know what one is really supposed to feel like; but when I play my Rice tele, with its 1" thick soft V neck, I FEEL like this must be what a vintage teleis supposed to feel like. Something about the fat neck on the tele just seems so RIGHT, like its thickness somehow works perfectly, tone-wise, with the tele's bridgeplate. And the woodiness everyone talks about with a tele, I have never really FELT that except playing these Rice teles. I bought a Fender Custom Classic tele briefly and it was like watching a movie of a real tele instead of playing it. With #090, I feel like I am RIGHT THERE in real tele land. I don't know how to explain it.
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