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Joe Till Guitars - Handmade in California |
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Welcome to Joe Till Guitars.
After some fits and starts I'm pleased to bring you up to date on my latest guitars. A lot has gone on here at my shop since my last update. Best of all, I now offer setnecks! In fact, you'll have to twist my arm to build a bolt-on anymore - at least for awhile. I'm having too much fun exploring the tonal and ergonomic possibilities of a glued in neck with a long tenon.
I also offer neck-through-body construction which provides the smoothest of all neck/body transitions. Go to my "Ordering a Till Guitar" section for a discussion of the pros and cons of each neck type.  TG-100 - ready for your pickup selection My whole thing is to take a great piece of wood and see how nice of a guitar I can make out of it. Twelve years and 150 guitars later, I've developed an understanding of the instrument that gives me the confidence to offer them to buyers from around the world.
I try to give my guitars the widest range of tones possible. Through creative switching and the right set of pickups my guitars can cover all the bases. Warm, fat, buttery, twangy, spanky, jangly, snarly... And when you add piezo pickups to the mix you get all those acoustic adjectives, as well.
 TG-250 Neck-Through-Body (Available)
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TG-250 "Lady on the Beach" |
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The TG-250 "Lady on the Beach" features a 25 1/2 inch scale and is available with Bolt-on, Setneck and Neck-thru-body construction. The inspiration for this model came in the form of an impressionist style painting of a woman sitting on a sand dune looking out over the ocean as the sun sank toward the horizon. But enough about that.  TG-250 "Lady On The Beach" Setneck #145 (Available) In terms of options, this model is even more versatile then the TG-100. It's longer scale allows for wider pickup spacing which makes adding a third pickup possible without losing any frets. And the higher string tension does wonderful things to the tone and resonance of a guitar (see "Ordering a Till Guitar"). Longer scales support a wider range of bridges, too. Whammy bars seem to respond better at this length. And string-through-body bridges make good use of the added string tension.
 Gibder Fenson (Available) I should also mention how comfortable this guitar is to play both standing and while sitting. Quite a few players have mentioned how well this model is balanced. And how the strings are high enough off your lap that you don't hit it while you strum. And with the combination of a slanted neck and a rear belly contour, it feels like this guitar is wrapping around you when you play. It's much easier to reach the lower frets than with an un-angled neck, thus making open chords less tiring to play.
The TG-250 is also available with 25 inch and 24 3/4 inch scales.
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