Lightweight Electric Guitars for Fingerpickers and Flatpickers
t 90
Thinline, chambered or solid single cut body. The t90 is a great all around lightweight guitar. With several pickup sets, the p90 neck pickup, a Budz Deep Dish or Tall traditional with a 4/2 style bridge pickup there's a wide range of expressive single coil sounds on a classic platform.
The thinline t90 weighs in around seven pounds or under, a solid body t90 around seven to seven and a half pounds. With well chosen body and fingerboards tonewood choices, pickups and bridge and saddle choices, the t90 can cover a wide range of tonal directions.
The original Shoreline Gold t90 was designed for Sean Costello as a lightweight stage/recording guitar that could cover gut bucket blues to R&B pretty to p90 jump blues with a flick of the three way switch. For Joe McGuinness the right answer was a t90 w/ a mahogany body to warm up the attack, thicken up the sound and a half bridge to tame the twang. There's so many possible variations on a grand theme.
t90 - $ mid teens usa.
t 3
Single cut body with a SSS calibrated pickup set up and a Glendale Chimemaster tremolo. A Strat is such a cliché so I set out to design another variation on a grand theme that might appeal to anyone who's a tired with the standard approach but loves the three pickup, five position sound w/ whammy.
A single cut body to stiffen up the platform, lose the bridge tone knob and use a master tone/volume setup. Mahogany or alder for a warmer top end and body. The result is a SSS style guitar that has a solid fundamental tone that cuts through the mix without being overly bright. The Glendale Chimemaster tremolo bridge w/ five springs and a brass tremolo block is a work of art.
t3 - $ upper teens usa.
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