New Williams

Jon Light · Post by **Jon Light** » 7 Jun 2019 2:34 pm

Arrived today. Pretty enough to look at.

Ian Rae · Post by **Ian Rae** » 7 Jun 2019 3:21 pm

They are beautifully finished, no question.

Apparently, unis are unlikely to catch on, yet lately everybody seems to be buying, or at least enquiring

Roger Crawford · Post by **Roger Crawford** » 7 Jun 2019 3:26 pm

Beautiful guitar. Is that a 206 pup?

Josh Rossow · Post by **Josh Rossow** » 7 Jun 2019 3:43 pm

Wow, very pretty!

Jon Light · Post by **Jon Light** » 7 Jun 2019 3:51 pm

Roger Crawford wrote:Beautiful guitar. Is that a 206 pup?

It's the Telonics 183, the 12 string version of the 206.

yet lately everybody seems to be buying, or at least enquiring

12 string Uni is all I've played for 21 years.

Carl Williams · Post by **Carl Williams** » 7 Jun 2019 3:59 pm

A Real Beaut Jon! Love the color choice...Thanks for posting for us to see...Carl

Craig Stock · Post by **Craig Stock** » 7 Jun 2019 4:09 pm

Beautiful guitar Jon, enjoy it!

Greg Koenig · Post by **Greg Koenig** » 7 Jun 2019 5:10 pm

How many knees?

Rick Barnhart · Post by **Rick Barnhart** » 7 Jun 2019 6:16 pm

Congratulations, Jon. Thatâ€™s a beautiful guitar!

Greg Milton · Post by **Greg Milton** » 7 Jun 2019 9:32 pm

That looks amazing, Jon! Beautiful colour scheme there!

Stu Schulman · Post by **Stu Schulman** » 8 Jun 2019 2:51 am

I'm gonna try and get by after the weekend and take some photos,Beautiful guitar.

Jon Light · Post by **Jon Light** » 8 Jun 2019 2:56 am

Greg Koenig wrote:How many knees?

Eight

Jon Light · Post by **Jon Light** » 8 Jun 2019 3:00 am

Stu Schulman wrote:I'm gonna try and get by after the weekend and take some photos,Beautiful guitar. ;-)

Yes!

This sort of two-tone w/ natural deck scheme has always been on my list of 'if I get enough chances at steel guitars in my lifetime, I want one that looks like this (and this....and this...)'

It may be that your beautiful Desert Rose helped to confirm it.

John McClung · Post by **John McClung** » 8 Jun 2019 1:38 pm

Good on you, Stu Schulman, those pix Jon posted suck and do that lovely steel no favor! Congrats on the steel, Jon, quite similar to Greg Leisz's ext E9 Williams.

Greg Milton · Post by **Greg Milton** » 8 Jun 2019 3:39 pm

Wow, 8 x 8? Are you able to post your set-up, Jon?

Jon Light · Post by **Jon Light** » 8 Jun 2019 4:00 pm

Sure. This has been evolving since 1998. Most everything is this way for some reason. Some of it is just an experiment or idea that I'm too set with to feel like changing. The redundancies have specific reasons. Ultimately, I only gig on 4 pedals but I enjoy messing with the B6 pedals at home too much to ditch them. I use ALL the levers, all the time. So as much as I would have loved to trim down the setup for this new guitar....I just couldn't. This is identical to my current gigging guitar.

Stu Schulman · Post by **Stu Schulman** » 9 Jun 2019 10:51 am

McClung,Pump the brakes buddy,The photos do not suck and I'm only taking photos for myself,No need to insult Jon's photography.

Greg Milton · Post by **Greg Milton** » 11 Jun 2019 12:50 am

Thanks Jon - your set-up looks very interesting!

Stu Schulman · Post by **Stu Schulman** » 11 Jun 2019 4:44 am

Ben Michaels · Post by **Ben Michaels** » 13 Jun 2019 2:02 am

Wow. Beautiful guitar. That setup is impressive. I don't understand pedal 8? E to E? Do you always use 8 with a lower and it just brings it back?

Jon Light · Post by **Jon Light** » 13 Jun 2019 2:38 am

Ben -- that is the standard E9/B6 Uni move (more typically Pedal 6). Especially if there is a lever lock, the 4th string is 'restored' to E while the E>lower is still engaged.
In fact, this being the 4th raise on string 4, something that I rigged on my previous guitar via a special bellcrank and a barrel tuner underneath, it is NOT rodded on this new guitar. I may or may not do that modification. It is nice to have but releasing the E lever as you hit the pedal is simple enough. I do not use a lever lock.

In fact P8 may be ditched entirely since it occupies the lower hole that I may dedicate to a return compensator.
All these will be sorted in time.

Marco Schouten · Post by **Marco Schouten** » 13 Jun 2019 8:16 am

Congrats! I sure looks great.

Joe Krumel · Post by **Joe Krumel** » 13 Jun 2019 9:50 am

Man that new guitar looks like artwork! Wow!

Steven Henning · Post by **Steven Henning** » 13 Jun 2019 1:22 pm

Geez... that is just GORGEOUS! Congrats!

Steve

Jon Light · Post by **Jon Light** » 13 Jun 2019 3:41 pm

Thanks, everyone, for the good wishes.

The funny thing about this -- I am somewhat over the idea of gorgeous instruments. I've had them. They are great.
Now I'm on to wanting a very good new guitar with a utilitarian finish.
I had an idea that really excited me of a mica guitar in a rusted iron finish. A faux patina. The online samples looked fantastic as did my photoshop mockup and I planned to do this. Bill Rudolph is really proud of the Williams lacquer finishes and was not enthusiastic (but, if I could find the proper thickness of material, he would have agreed to do it).
But then the mica samples I received in the mail looked like crap. They did not come anywhere close to my vision.

So the bad news was that I ended up with this guitar here. Poor poor pitiful me.