Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Girl Brand Sushi Box Tele

Posted by Jon in • Cool Guitars in • Crazy Guitar Designs

Girl Brand Sushi Box Telecaster
If you are looking for a Telecaster but you are bored of the usual standard finishes and paintjobs then you need to check out Girl Brand Guitars, I don’t understand the name, no they aren’t guitars just for girls… just look will you! Now the website is a little confusing but click around and you will see some very unique Telecasters. There are of course a few which particularly caught my eye such is my obsession with the more, well leftfield of guitar designs!

The photo on the left is a guitar called “SushiGirl” which uses the hollows of the Telecaster body to house sushi like a Bento box complete with mother of pearl, abalone and recon stone fretboard inlays depicting a Giant Squid attacking some fish! Now this guitar is currently offline which Chris Larsen from Girl Brand Guitars has explained is due to a spiteful server not playing nice so in an unprecedented move for Guitar Noize I am including a second image which is a close up of the inlays here:

Girl brand sushi box inlay

The neck is 25.5” scale and the fretboard is ebony or cocobola over hard maple and has a double acting truss rod fitted. I had to look this up to see what that meant, I found a good explanation here on the PRS Guitars site. And hey, if its good enough for Paul Reed Smith! This was the explanation for the body of the guitar that I received from Chris:

Body- back- linen phenolic over birch ply, core-fir
top- wood, metal, plastic, whatever.
Rim- extruded aluminum, nickle-plated bronze knee cap

Oh and finally the pickups are hand wound by Dave Schecter. I’ll be bringing you another of Chris Larsen’s creations tomorrow!

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Jason on 11/01 at 06:45 AM

Wow.  That’s a freakin’ awesome looking Telecaster.  Nice find Jon.

Jon on 11/01 at 08:30 AM

Isn’t it amazing, I have another lined up for my next post so stay tuned!

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