Guitars
JT’s Blue Tele
-1984 Joe Glaser body
-forearm and belly contours
-alder
-reverse control plate
-modern style 6-saddle brass bridge
-Seymour Duncan Vintage Stack bridge pickup (original no-logo version replaced with another no-logo version at some point, then that one replaced with a logo-verison in 2017)
-Bill Lawrence middle pickup (originally an early ’80s Mount Juliet, TN era Bill Lawrence Black Label Strat pickup that Joe had rewound with more windings, at some point replaced with a Jzchak Wejcman dba Bill Lawrence www.swampkaster.com era pickup)
-Seymour Duncan “Firebird I” neck pickup (very little other info on this model pickup)
-5-way switch, 1981 CTS push/pull pot on the tone (my notes from a conversation with JT say it adds bridge, Joe Glaser said it adds neck)
-3 ply white/black/white pickguard
-neck is from a 1956 Fender Esquire that JT owned
-neck is a V shape
-non-original tuners
-Custom nut compensation that hangs over the fretboard around the G string
-neck plate from a 1973 Telecaster
Click here for the Blue Tele’s story.
picture from Dallas Wilson, 2015
JT’s Gretsch
-6120W Nashville model
-1996
-made in Japan
-Stock filtertron pickups
-Stock Bigsby vibrato
-JT used this guitar on many slow songs for a more mellow tone with fatter single notes (see: I Wanna Make You Close Your Eyes intro)
-sometimes strung with 11-49 gauge strings
-usually had round wounds, but had flatwounds at some point
picture from Dallas Wilson, 2015
JT’s Strat
-parts guitar from Joe Glaser’s shop
-Gotoh VSVG strat trem bridge
-Seymour Duncan JB Jr. Strat bridge pickup (mini humbucker)
-Bill Lawrence L250 rail pickups in the middle and neck spots (stacked humbuckers)
picture from Dallas Wilson, 2015
JT’s Tic Tac Bass
-Jerry Jones Neptune Longhorn Bass6
-made in the 1990s (likely ’98-’99)
-Jerry Jones’ Neptune bridge (as opposed to the wood bridges on non-Neptune models)
-Jerry Jones’ stock lipstick pickups
picture from Dallas Wilson, 2015
JT’s SG
-Gibson SG ’61 Reissue
-Made in the 1990’s
-all stock parts
-’57 Classic pickups (stock)
-JT used this for rock rhythms and cutting sustained electric leads (see: Come A Little Closer)
picture from Dallas Wilson, 2015
JT’s Goldtop
-Gibson Les Paul ’56 Reissue (R6)
-Made in 2006
-P90 pickups
picture from Dallas Wilson, 2015
JT’s 12 String
-Jerry Jones Netpune Single Cut 12 String
-Made in the 1990s
-modified to have Seymour Duncan Telecaster bridge pickup
-used for the left panned guitar in the song Long Trip Alone
picture from Dallas Wilson, 2015
JT’s 335
-Gibson ES-335 Dot Reissue
-made in the 1990s
picture from Dallas Wilson, 2015
JT’s Cherryburst Les Paul
-1973 Les Paul Deluxe
picture from Dallas Wilson, 2015
JT’s Custom Baritone
-likely assembled by Glaser Instruments
-Gotoh VSVG strat trem bridge
-Telecaster bridge pickup mounted into pickguard
-lipstick middle pickup
-Seymour Duncan Mini Humbucker neck pickup
-long scale
-this may have been the main guitar on Suds In The Bucket
picture from Dallas Wilson, 2015
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JT’s Sitar
-Jerry Jones Electric Sitar
-used on intro of “Something’s Gotta Give” by LeAnn Rimes
-used on “A Minute Past Midnight” on JT’s Somewhere Under The Radar album
-unsure of which model (Master Sitar, Baby Sitar, or Supreme Sitar)
JT’s Picks
-Clayton Acetal Teardrop
-usually 0.50mm
-according to JT in 2020, “lately I’ve been using Clayton picks. I have some different sizes, but I usually use the small (Jazz, mandolin) size, and they’re the white ones made of some kind of less brittle material than regular plastic picks. I kinda like the way they sound like fingers instead of a pick on the strings. I’ll use a regular plastic pick if I need it to sound harder and more brittle.”
JT’s Strings
-D’Addario XL 10-46 (EXL110)
-regular uncoated
-JT said he changed the strings on his blue Tele “about twice a week” because he liked the strings to sound snappy
-he changed the other guitars’ strings a little less frequently
