T3
Guitar

Tone like a vintage telecaster and/or a high testosterone humbucking evolution.
Solid korina body with figured maple front-plate for string balance and ultimate tone.
Wrap-around bridge for longer sustain.
Seymour Duncan vintage telecaster compatible pickups.
Fender LSR Roller nut for tuning ease and accuracy, and string weight tolerance.
Vintage Tele / Humbucker / phased-coil switch provides a wide range of vintage and modern tones.
Choice of korina stain colours, maple figuring, fret-board woods.

 

T3
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The T3 is not just another telecaster copy with added humbuckers, although it will feel familiar to anyone coming from that direction. An original designed body of selected hard tone-woods features a wrap-around bridge providing longer sustain and rich woody tone. The scratch-plate is 6mm solid figured maple, not cheap plastic, creating more musical resonance with long sustain as well as beauty. During development a vintage tele style bridge was tried and had inferior sustain and tone to the chosen wraparound bridge.

The T3 has 3 different voice modes. In each mode there are 3 different pickup selections from neck to bridge.

1) Vintage telecaster compatible. The neck and/or bridge pickups are used. The middle pickup is not used. The voices will be familiar 1950s style, using accurately constructed vintage replica pickups.

2) Phased coils. The middle pickup is added out-of-phase to the neck and/or bridge pickups. Good for special effects.

3) Humbuckers. The middle pickup is added in serial humbucker manner to the neck and/or bridge pickups. This provides 3 bright telecaster-like sounds, but with more power, longer sustain, fuller fatter tone, and more punch. It is considerably more convincing than putting a Gibson size humbucker onto a telecaster. (Several different humbuckers were tried during development).

T3 Controls
From left to right in the picture:
3 way rotary voice mode switch: 1) Vintage telecaster compatible; 2) phased coils; 3) humbuckers
3 way toggle pickup selector switch: bridge pickup; both pickups; neck pickup
Rotary tone control
Rotary volume control

Ben Smith recorded a Rees T3 in the studio in exactly the same way as his F2:
These recordings are dry with no effects, no reverb, no compression, and no post processing. Of course they can be greatly further enhanced with various gizmos.

WARNING! You need to play these through moderately high quality speakers to appreciate how good the crunchy and humbucker voices are. Most computer speakers are cheap, feeble, and just don't have enough strength for this. Please call for a free demo CD for your hi-fi if in doubt.

T3 PU Selector Voice Bridge PkUp(s) Bridge & Neck PkUp(s) Neck PkUp(s)
Clean Vintage T like p p
Clean Humbuckers p
Clean Phased p p p
Crunchy Vintage T like p
Crunchy Humbuckers p
Crunchy Phased p


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