new B.B. King "Lucille" - in white

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Alvin

I was expecting him to play some Mountain on that as he is a big fan .  Sounded pretty cool .

hotpickups

Nice . I like that 

King85

That bridge looks cool

proggy

Lovely guitar, shame it doesn't have f-holes.

thermionic

Nothing new about this apart from the colour, right?

Rabs

thermionic said:

Nothing new about this apart from the colour, right?

Different tail piece..  This one has fine tuners.

Phil_aka_Pip

Nice, but do they do it in black? Not sure I'd want white ...

Philly_Q

Rabs said:

thermionic said:

Nothing new about this apart from the colour, right?

Different tail piece..  This one has fine tuners.

I think he always had the fine tuning tailpiece.

Rabs

Philly_Q said:

Rabs said:

thermionic said:

Nothing new about this apart from the colour, right?

Different tail piece..  This one has fine tuners.

I think he always had the fine tuning tailpiece.

Ha...  Seems you are right...  Never really noticed before....

So then, just a different colour 

terada

Rabs said: No

Philly_Q said:

Rabs said:

thermionic said:

Nothing new about this apart from the colour, right?

Different tail piece..  This one has fine tuners.

I think he always had the fine tuning tailpiece.

Ha...  Seems you are right...  Never really noticed before....

So then, just a different colour 

But white guitars do generally sound brighter, which could be interesting 

Lewy

He seems to be able to get quite a few more usable tones out of that than I was able to get out of the one I had for a while...

gibsongretschfan

Paging Mr Corgan...

Henrytwang

I’ve got an old Lucille in black, I’m not sure of the age but I bought it used around 21 years ago. It’s very similar to the white one in the video but has a different headstock logo.  it does have the TP6 tuneable tailpiece which BB certainly had on his later guitars, I saw him live on a couple of occasions in the 1990s and he used it to tweak the tuning between songs.  The guitar is Okay but I’m not keen on the Varitone feature and use position 1 which is basically a 335 circuit I’ve also never used the stereo output. To be quite honest I actually prefer a 335.

downbytheriver

When the Lucille first came out there were two models - the one that survives today but also a version which I think was called the standard. It had no f-holes, had a tp6 tailpiece, dot markers and tuners with built in winders, but crucially, it had no varitone. I bought one and enjoyed it for many years. When time came to sell it I was accused of trying to sell a fake because it lacked the varitone. Quoth me “yeah and I filled in the f holes with polyfilla”. He didn’t buy it. 

downbytheriver

Regarding the video, someone might want to point out to him that the tp6 has no bearing on intonation whatsoever. 

stonevibe

Wrote about this guitar the other day for gearnews and they are already arguing over the Richlite on US forums....

mr-mac

Philly_Q said:

Rabs said:

thermionic said:

Nothing new about this apart from the colour, right?

Different tail piece..  This one has fine tuners.

I think he always had the fine tuning tailpiece.

BB used the TP6 fine turners on most his guitars

joeyowen

Looks great, but it will cost too much and appear like a cash generator.

Realllllly does look great though

Gagaryn

King85 said:

That bridge looks cool

First time I've heard that said about a TP6. :-)

57Deluxe

I had the epi model for a while but is no substitute for a 335 cos that circuit is real tone sucker..