Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 12:31 am
Hi !
I recently received my new guitar: <b>it's a custom handmade Jazzmaster with a hollow metal body</b> made by a very talented french luthier called Loïc Le Pape (http://www.myspace.com/loiclepape).
It's My Orange Tiny Terror new best friend !
I owned and still own several Jazzmasters (it's the guitar of my life!) but this one is truly amazing: it looks and sounds awesome, just like a Jazzmaster (even though I asked for TV jones pickups on mine so it's kind of different) but with an added touch and more personnality... notes are more defined and clear and the tone is not cold at all (I was worrying about that at first, steel having like a "cold" material image, but it's wrong .. or at least, this guy know how to make it sound as warm, if not more, as wood guitars)
The guy makes every kind of steel bodied guitars according to the specs you ask for.
He's really commited to meet your needs: I had bad experiences with luthier/guitar techs in the past but not at all in this case.
I first contacted him for a Telecaster (because I thought it was only possible to make tele's and "flat" les paul's with steel) but he listened to my music on myspace and told me maybe a Jazzmaster would fit my need better... and I was like: wtf ?? Of course !!!
That's how he built the first steel Jazzmaster ever produced and I must say he 100% succeded at it !
My music is some kind of post-rock / post-punk / no-wave and experimental free improvisation stuff so he proposed me to add specs that would allow to produce new sounds. For that he used a special material for the guard for it to produce some kind of droning resonnance and a piezo in the body to amplify the noises made on a guitar.
The result is a guitar that can be used as a normal guitar or and off the track tone generator at the flick of a switch (and a little creativity)
I could go on and on about it but enough talking, here are the pictures:
I asked for a post-industrial / steampunk finish and I think he nailed that perfectly !
It's really because the Jazzmaster is my guitar of choice and no other ones suit what I do better because he's making all kind of great guitars... enough GAS for a lifetime (but not enough money I guess ! )
I don't exclude ordering another one with more standard specs and another kind of finish... something closer to this one that he made right after mine:
I can't help but posting a little sample:
There are way more pictures on his myspace page (http://www.myspace.com/loiclepape), go see that: you'll be like a kid in a candystore.
I recently received my new guitar: <b>it's a custom handmade Jazzmaster with a hollow metal body</b> made by a very talented french luthier called Loïc Le Pape (http://www.myspace.com/loiclepape).
It's My Orange Tiny Terror new best friend !
I owned and still own several Jazzmasters (it's the guitar of my life!) but this one is truly amazing: it looks and sounds awesome, just like a Jazzmaster (even though I asked for TV jones pickups on mine so it's kind of different) but with an added touch and more personnality... notes are more defined and clear and the tone is not cold at all (I was worrying about that at first, steel having like a "cold" material image, but it's wrong .. or at least, this guy know how to make it sound as warm, if not more, as wood guitars)
The guy makes every kind of steel bodied guitars according to the specs you ask for.
He's really commited to meet your needs: I had bad experiences with luthier/guitar techs in the past but not at all in this case.
I first contacted him for a Telecaster (because I thought it was only possible to make tele's and "flat" les paul's with steel) but he listened to my music on myspace and told me maybe a Jazzmaster would fit my need better... and I was like: wtf ?? Of course !!!
That's how he built the first steel Jazzmaster ever produced and I must say he 100% succeded at it !
My music is some kind of post-rock / post-punk / no-wave and experimental free improvisation stuff so he proposed me to add specs that would allow to produce new sounds. For that he used a special material for the guard for it to produce some kind of droning resonnance and a piezo in the body to amplify the noises made on a guitar.
The result is a guitar that can be used as a normal guitar or and off the track tone generator at the flick of a switch (and a little creativity)
I could go on and on about it but enough talking, here are the pictures:
I asked for a post-industrial / steampunk finish and I think he nailed that perfectly !
It's really because the Jazzmaster is my guitar of choice and no other ones suit what I do better because he's making all kind of great guitars... enough GAS for a lifetime (but not enough money I guess ! )
I don't exclude ordering another one with more standard specs and another kind of finish... something closer to this one that he made right after mine:
I can't help but posting a little sample:
There are way more pictures on his myspace page (http://www.myspace.com/loiclepape), go see that: you'll be like a kid in a candystore.