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Coyote USA Series Specs
By: MichaelHargis Date: December 7, 2020, 7:53 am
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Teye guitars are works of art and this one is certainly no
exception. Introduced at the 2014 NAMM Show in Anaheim
California, the Coyote is Teye's latest and greatest! Here's
what Teye has to say about it:
"When I looked closely at the design of my Custom Shop guitars
and separated in my mind the luxurious aspects from the
essential elements, a plan was born to make a different guitar
with all of the Teye-features but made with efficient use of
modern production technology. The plan involved a more efficient
method of construction paired with an easier-to-apply finish,
coupled to a better way of assembling the electronic components.
A guitar 100% Made-In-USA, with that "Old-World flavor",
designed with a sleek build process in mind. Here she is! Called
the Coyote, she is the first of my new USA-series of instruments
and she's bound to conquer your heart just like she conquered
mine. I'm very proud of her!"
Teye, Austin Texas, January 2014 This Teye Coyote is drop dead
gorgeous with it's acid etched aluminum pickup rings, tailpiece
and pickguard on a maple top that is sunk into a mahogany body.
This beauty also has a mahogany neck, bound ebony fretboard,
25.5" scale with 24 frets and the Teye Bedouin inlay in
mother-of-pearl and custom aluminum back plate.The tuners are
Grover deluxe imperial Rotomatics on some and Kidney Bean knobs
on others. This guitar has the new Teye-A-series-bridge and it
simply sounds magnificent. Loaded with custom wound DiMarzio
pickups (some came loaded with Jimmy Wallace Custom PAF's) along
with Teye's proprietary circuitry, with 2x Volume, Tone, and
Mood-knob that gives full humbucking, single coil and all points
in between, plus the desirable Brand-of-Gypsys-tailpiece. This
guitar also has the new Coyote headplate with direct access to
the truss rod and with the new style Teye-logo.
The thickness of the neck measures .870 at the first fret and
.950 at the 12th. These guitars are a collectors prize and a
players dream.
Plates & Inlays Teye was inspired to investigate the sonic
properties of aluminium plating and special inlays; crafted
plates, often hand engraved by Teye, and custom inlays add
beauty, clarity and pop to the Teye sound
24 Fret Neck
The 24-fret neck actually goes all the way up to an e, a crucial
note (root and 5th) in ‘typical guitar keys’ like E and A. But
more importantly: 24 frets place the neck pickup in a better
position. When you move the neck pickup slightly closer to the
bridge, its frequency response becomes slightly brighter and
more in line with the response of the bridge pickup.
Headplates
The sound guys at a show once used Teye’s undersaddle pickup,
but added two microphones to his Flamenco guitar: one of which
was pointed at his headstock. The resulting brilliance and added
musical whisper inspired Teye to pay special attention to his
headstocks, which add incredibly to the guitar’s overall Tonal
character.
Mood
In Teye’s words: coil splitting gives options but with unusable
tones – and is on or off. Teye wanted to sweep through great
uncompromised tones using his switch and knob positions. So he
came up with a filtering system that did just that.
Specialist Wood
Teye guitars often use Korina, a “super mahogany” African wood
that is difficult to work, but provides for great looks, a
sweeter midrange and enhanced responsiveness
Bridge
The Teye bridge is a very tight construction made of aluminum
chosen for its stiffness and lightness and brilliant resonance.
The saddles are ¼” wide and the string guided over the full ¼”
(6.35mm) after Teye started to replace his 2mm wide bone saddles
on his flamenco guitars with 3mm because the sound was better
with the wider saddle. Teye’s experiments led to the ¼” size.
Teye goes back to aluminum bars, for added jangle.
5 Way Switch
An advanced 4-deck rotary switch mounted on a lever packs an
incredible amount of potency – pickup,phase and mix selections –
underneath a classic and familiar feel
A 5-way switch controls the guitars internal signal routing.
Pos. 1 activates the neck pup only.
Pos. 3 activates both in parallel.
Pos. 5 turns on the bridge pup only.
Positions 2 and 4 (bet you were wondering why a 2 pup guitar has
a 5 way switch, right?) have both pups hot and change the phase
of the pups (out of phase with one another, Pos. 2) and shift
the signal to be in parallel (Pos. 4), increasing the range of
tones available at your finger tips. Pos. 2 has a very Peter
Green (Fleetwood Mac) sound. More information on Teye and his
guitars can be found at Teye.com.
Tailpiece
Teye’s first prototype tailpieces were massive hand-shaped
blocks of engraved aluminum. Then an experiment led to a thinner
bar of brass. The Tone jumped: more lows, more highs, and much
more midrange punch. But it was ugly, so Teye quickly added an
engraved hand-shaped aluminum cover.
More Info. coming!
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