{"id":2065,"date":"2013-06-25T11:51:06","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T18:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/?p=2065"},"modified":"2022-01-31T14:29:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T22:29:48","slug":"better-know-a-builder-bilt-guitars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/better-know-a-builder-bilt-guitars\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Know a Builder: BiLT Guitars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/better-know-a-builder-bilt-guitars\/web-zaftig-front-detail-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2068\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"639\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/WEB-Zaftig-front-detail-2-500x639.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2068\" title=\"WEB Zaftig front detail 2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/WEB-Zaftig-front-detail-2-500x639.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/WEB-Zaftig-front-detail-2-117x150.jpg 117w, https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/WEB-Zaftig-front-detail-2-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/WEB-Zaftig-front-detail-2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Here at Lollar Pickups, we love working closely with some of the best builders in the industry to find the right tone for their custom creations. So we thought we\u2019d spotlight some of the unique builds and the thought process behind them. Next up is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biltguitars.com\/\">BiLT Guitars<\/a>&nbsp;and their sexy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biltguitars.com\/the-guitars\/the-zaftig.html\">Zaftig<\/a>&nbsp;model, equipped&nbsp;with<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/mm5\/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&amp;Store_Code=LGP&amp;Product_Code=269&amp;Category_Code=humbucker-pickups\"> Lollar Regal<\/a>&nbsp;pickups:&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lollar Pickups<\/strong>: What made you choose Lollar Regals for the Zaftig?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BiLT Guitars<\/strong>: We had several people ask us to have the reissue (Wide Range) units redone to sound more like guitar pickups, then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/mm5\/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&amp;Store_Code=LGP&amp;Product_Code=269&amp;Category_Code=humbucker-pickups\">Regals<\/a> appeared and the rest is history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LP: <\/strong>I\u2019m too lazy to <a href=\"http:\/\/lmgtfy.com\/?q=Zaftig+\">Google<\/a> it. What the heck is a Zaftig?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BG<\/strong>: The word describes the female form with extra curviness, make sense? (<em>Editors note: an image search for &#8220;zaftig&#8221; is NSFW but super fun for home.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/better-know-a-builder-bilt-guitars\/zafsbhsfull\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2070\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"977\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ZAFSBHSFULL-500x977.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2070\" title=\"ZAFSBHSFULL\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ZAFSBHSFULL-500x977.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ZAFSBHSFULL-76x150.jpg 76w, https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ZAFSBHSFULL-153x300.jpg 153w, https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ZAFSBHSFULL.jpg 524w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LP: <\/strong>Describe the typical player that would love a BiLT Guitar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BG<\/strong>: Anyone who enjoys having something slightly different visually, and doesn&#8217;t mind being approached after shows and asked questions like &#8220;what in the heck (hell) are you playing?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LP<\/strong>: Favorite guitar you&#8217;ve ever built?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BG<\/strong>: We made a solid rosewood Jazzmaster for Nels Cline back before we settled on BilT being something we were actually going to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/better-know-a-builder-bilt-guitars\/nelsbilt\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2067\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"668\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/nelsbilt-500x668.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2067\" title=\"nelsbilt\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/nelsbilt-500x668.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/nelsbilt-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/nelsbilt-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/nelsbilt.jpg 1712w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LP<\/strong>: What guitarist, alive or dead, would you love to build a guitar for?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BG<\/strong>: We&#8217;ve been really lucky to work with a lot of great artists, but if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastbayexpress.com\/binary\/9623\/1366921055-11682_prince-1979.jpg\">P. Rogers Nelson<\/a> were to come along and ask for our stuff, that would be rad!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here at Lollar Pickups, we love working closely with some of the best builders in the industry to find the right tone for their custom creations. So we thought we\u2019d spotlight some of the unique builds and the thought process &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/better-know-a-builder-bilt-guitars\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3INU8-xj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2065"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3207,"href":"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions\/3207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}