It may not look like much, but this guitar is, bar none, the best sounding Tele I've ever gotten my hands on and certainly one of the best sounding electric guitars I've ever played.
My friend Pauly built it. He runs a great local guitar repair shop and he does really excellent work, and I was in his shop recently having him do some wiring work on my #1, and I spotted this in the corner. It looked cool and I've been on a Tele kick lately and I decided to plug it in.
I played it for an hour and a half straight and only stopped because I had to go pick up my wife from work. But holy cow...
Every now and then you come across an instrument that is definitely more than the sum of it's parts, and this was one of them. The tone, body, clarity, articulation, the sustain that came out of it... unreal.
On paper you'd see a quality list of parts and it's a well built guitar, and most people would probably pass over it in a shop. But this thing had TONS of Mojo and a fat, ballsy sound unlike any tele I've ever come across before.
Homemade 2-pc ash body with thin nitro
Warmoth maple tele "boat neck" with jumbo frets, thin nitro finish, bone nut.
vintage style klusons.
Joe Barden bridge and saddles.
Fralin Un-bucker in the neck with a splitter switch.
Fender CS Esquire pickup with a baseplate in the bridge.
250k pots, orange drop cap, 3 way switch.
The whole thing has been reliced pretty good and it looks and smells like the real thing, instead of a guitar that's a few years old.
I asked him how much he wanted for it and he said it wasn't for sale. It was the first guitar he built (he built it as an Esquire and the Un-bucker came later) and there was too much sentimental value in it, and it sounded too good. He actually DID sell it but bought it back for more than what he paid to build it. I don't blame him. But if it had been for sale I would've bought it on the spot.
Whatever IT was, this guitar had IT.
TLDR; I found an awesome Tele that I couldn't buy.
My friend Pauly built it. He runs a great local guitar repair shop and he does really excellent work, and I was in his shop recently having him do some wiring work on my #1, and I spotted this in the corner. It looked cool and I've been on a Tele kick lately and I decided to plug it in.
I played it for an hour and a half straight and only stopped because I had to go pick up my wife from work. But holy cow...
Every now and then you come across an instrument that is definitely more than the sum of it's parts, and this was one of them. The tone, body, clarity, articulation, the sustain that came out of it... unreal.
On paper you'd see a quality list of parts and it's a well built guitar, and most people would probably pass over it in a shop. But this thing had TONS of Mojo and a fat, ballsy sound unlike any tele I've ever come across before.
Homemade 2-pc ash body with thin nitro
Warmoth maple tele "boat neck" with jumbo frets, thin nitro finish, bone nut.
vintage style klusons.
Joe Barden bridge and saddles.
Fralin Un-bucker in the neck with a splitter switch.
Fender CS Esquire pickup with a baseplate in the bridge.
250k pots, orange drop cap, 3 way switch.
The whole thing has been reliced pretty good and it looks and smells like the real thing, instead of a guitar that's a few years old.
I asked him how much he wanted for it and he said it wasn't for sale. It was the first guitar he built (he built it as an Esquire and the Un-bucker came later) and there was too much sentimental value in it, and it sounded too good. He actually DID sell it but bought it back for more than what he paid to build it. I don't blame him. But if it had been for sale I would've bought it on the spot.
Whatever IT was, this guitar had IT.
TLDR; I found an awesome Tele that I couldn't buy.
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