White fret position markers and a 1 11/16” nut. Neck: Nicely rounded and chunky maple neck with a bound rosewood fingerboard. Metal control panel with skirted control knobs with silver inserts, a metal pickguard and dual on/off pickup switches. Nickel tailpiece with a one-piece bridge saddle and chrome bridge cover. The pickup selector switches pop just a bit when being engaged, otherwise all electronics and parts are original and in perfect working condition.īody: Solid contoured body in sunburst finish. The prize on this guitar is the goldfoil pickups and I've already used them for another project. I have a second Knox guitar that is very similar to this one but with a much larger pickguard. It is a unknown Knox model 2 pickup Electric Guitar from the 1960's with 2 goldfoil pickups.
The neck is very comfortable with great action up and down the fingerboard and the truss rod functions perfectly. 1960's Knox (Teisco) Small Pickguard 2 Pickup Electric. Overall it has an awesome and authentic vintage look! The fingerboard and frets are in great shape with only very light play wear and tons of life left in them. On top of all of that the bass is in very good overall shape for its age!Ĭondition: Very good overall shape for the basses age! There are various scratches, nicks, dings, dents and chips throughout the bass with some buckle rash and a few small scuff marks on the back. Dual single-coil pickups, a super comfortable and chunky maple neck and matching pickguard and plate on the body and headstock. And all his gold-foil guitars take a Vovox stereo cable.What’s special about this bass: This is an awesome sounding Teisco Del Rey EB-200 Bass with a huge sound, great feel and awesome vintage look! Features include a contoured body in sunburst finish. His tunings include D standard, a tweaked open G (D–G–D–G–B–C), and several of the usual-suspect open tunings. ("The final punch of a show in Scotland.")For his Juniors, Hill typically rides with D'Addario NYXLs (.011–.056) and he hasn't used a pick in nearly 30 years. Yes, the neck has been broken (five times), but believe it or not, only one occurred while drumming. (The only thing he had to do was add a stereo output to the Junior so the Teisco pickup hits a bass amp - a 1966 Ampeg B-15 paired with an EHX POG- while the stock P-90 goes through varied combinations of old Fenders.)
And notice how the gold-foil only sits under the Junior's top three strings. When building his solo sound barrage, he specifically sought out the old gold-foils because they slid under the strings without any routing or surgery. Before you start trolling, realize that the guitar has not been damaged or modded in any irreversible manner. No, your eyes aren't deceiving you, that is a true 1959 Gibson Les Paul Junior that was been jerry-rigged with a Teisco gold-foil pickup. The Juno-Award-winning guitarist details why he slides vintage Teisco gold-foils on his holy grail Gibsons and Fenders, explains the evolution of his setup that now covers bass and drums, and proves that one man can get the job done of three.Īll Steve Hill's video, audio, and photos captured and edited by Stephan Ritch. In this episode, the multi-tasking Steve Hill virtually invites PG's Chris Kies into his Canada-based recording studio. I wouldn't allow it !"Īnd what's the typical reaction he sees onstage: "Some people are mesmerized, and some people are horrified." Everything I recorded for those first three albums was performed live with no overdubs. Plus, when I'm not performing, I'm in the studio fine-tuning my approach and working out new material. "125+ shows a year provides a great learning environment. I never wanted to be a one-man band ," says Hill. "It's all accidents-I never planned for this.
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