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Eddie Vedder Blue Sparkle Telecaster

jno3000jno3000 Posts: 3
edited December 2008 in Musicians and Gearheads
Hey. I can only assume this has been answered before.

What is that Blue Sparkle Tele that Eddie Vedder has been playing lately. Is it a Fender? Tom Anderson? Other?

It's the one with the soap bar pickups and the bullseye drawn on it (and a arrow). He played it on Saturday Night Live.

I'm really curious. Thanks.
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  • jno3000jno3000 Posts: 3
    I think it's probably a Fender now. It has a Fender headstock. Anyone know?
  • harrisonmerwinharrisonmerwin Posts: 766
    its a schecter! wam shazam!
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  • exhaustedexhausted Posts: 6,638
    giventowail lists it as a 60s telecaster. it's not the schecter at the very least.
  • senninsennin Posts: 2,146
    http://pearljam.com/i/tourphotos/20060707/8.jpg
  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    Ok, it looks like a modded Fender.
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  • CrazyManAndyCrazyManAndy Posts: 4
    Yeh, it is a 63' Black-Sparkle Fender Telecaster. It's been modded a bit too over time (a little different paint job, P-90 neck, etc.). If I am not mistaken it is the same one he is playing the album art for No Code. I'm hopefully going to build one just like it in the not to distant future.

    CMA
  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    CrazyManAndy wrote:
    Yeh, it is a 63' Black-Sparkle Fender Telecaster. It's been modded a bit too over time (a little different paint job, P-90 neck, etc.). If I am not mistaken it is the same one he is playing the album art for No Code. I'm hopefully going to build one just like it in the not to distant future.

    CMA

    Welcome to the boards!
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  • CrazyManAndyCrazyManAndy Posts: 4
    Thanks for the greeting! I appreciate it.

    CMA
  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 Posts: 23,168
    http://www.sonymusic.com/artists/PearlJam/images7/stlouis2.jpg

    http://www.sonymusic.com/artists/PearlJam/images7/stlouis3.jpg

    here are two other pics of it. to me it looks like he had the rear end shaved down and contoured like a strat body would have. if i had a tele i would do the same because i don't like the way it feels to be playing something that is flat like a tele.
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  • Pacomc79Pacomc79 Posts: 9,404
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    http://www.sonymusic.com/artists/PearlJam/images7/stlouis2.jpg

    http://www.sonymusic.com/artists/PearlJam/images7/stlouis3.jpg

    here are two other pics of it. to me it looks like he had the rear end shaved down and contoured like a strat body would have. if i had a tele i would do the same because i don't like the way it feels to be playing something that is flat like a tele.


    it's called a tummy cut if any of you are thinking of getting a custom body built.
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  • CrazyManAndyCrazyManAndy Posts: 4
    One thing I can't figure out is why those lines on the non-sparkled area are there. Any ideas?

    It is best seen here:
    http://www.pearljam.com/i/tourphotos/20060513/7.jpg

    CMA
  • senninsennin Posts: 2,146
    CrazyManAndy wrote:
    One thing I can't figure out is why those lines on the non-sparkled area are there. Any ideas?

    It is best seen here:
    http://www.pearljam.com/i/tourphotos/20060513/7.jpg

    CMA

    It's tape.
  • CrazyManAndyCrazyManAndy Posts: 4
    So he put tape on there to cover up the wood as a make shift finish or something? And what kind of tape? Gaffer tape?

    CMA
  • pedalbreakpedalbreak Posts: 138
    what kind of paint do you guys think he used on his guitar, because you can still see the grain of the wood. just a thin coat of paint maybe? I want a simialr paint job minus the sparkles on my next tele.
  • xtremehardy388xtremehardy388 Posts: 2,759
    pedalbreak wrote:
    what kind of paint do you guys think he used on his guitar, because you can still see the grain of the wood. just a thin coat of paint maybe? I want a simialr paint job minus the sparkles on my next tele.
    Nail polish, probably
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