Your new Beautiful Companion, Well Played Sir
Show your latest guitar
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Me again....sorry!
For those interested I've just got my Tele back, now fully distressed with relic-ed hardware, Monty's (Pete Honore) vintage style pickups and a minty green pickguard.
This guitar was hand built about 30 years ago for my uncle who was, and still is, a very accomplished player. Its not an actual Fender, (if it were I really wouldn't have changed it), so effectively its not worth a lot, but its priceless to me, (well almost).
I suppose its a bit of a Frankenstein guitar and always has been as it originally had a SD Humbucker at the neck and stacked one at the bridge, split by a little toggle switch. Now other than the fretboard, you'd probably never know.
I'm absolutely made up as it sounds just awesome and I love the new look.
Here is a before photo.....(im sure plenty will prefer it)
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Not Latest, but I sent this to Sweetwater for a Plek, new TusQ nut, and a new Bridge. Belonged to a friend who passed away a year ago. I got it back on Friday.
I could have done the nut and bridge, but the Plek sets that all up, so I let them do it. It was totally worth it. I got my new 2020 Epi Les Pauls Plek'd when ordered from Sweetwater, and I'm kind of spoiled now This is a 2005 Trans Red.
My Precisely Positioned Pack of Pauls
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Hardtail partscaster in sherwood green
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my new BMG special LE tangerine dream
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Hardtail partscaster in sherwood green
love the colour
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Me again....sorry!
For those interested I've just got my Tele back, now fully distressed with relic-ed hardware, Monty's (Pete Honore) vintage style pickups and a minty green pickguard.
I'm usually not a big fan of artificial distressing but I have to say that is a huge improvement with a very realistic look. Now, does it sound like a 59? Good decision and respectfully done. It might just inspire me to go get an inexpensive Squire and Frankenstein the hell out of it. Thanks for sharing.
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Sooo, my latest is another one of my own builds. I had a cherry treee fall next to my house back in February and I have been slowly turning it into a guitar. Custom wound P90s, managed to get a Les Paul wiring into the Tele cavity as well. Unfortunately I have not built the neck yet but I bought a MIM Fender Tele neck to slap on it until I can make a neck I like.
Edit Ok, I tried to get the pictures. Youll have to deal with the links because I am not going through the pain of resizing every pic.
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Sooo, my latest is another one of my own builds. I had a cherry treee fall next to my house back in February and I have been slowly turning it into a guitar. Custom wound P90s, managed to get a Les Paul wiring into the Tele cavity as well. Unfortunately I have not built the neck yet but I bought a MIM Fender Tele neck to slap on it until I can make a neck I like.
Edit Ok, I tried to get the pictures. Youll have to deal with the links because I am not going through the pain of resizing every pic.
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I think we need a before and after picture of the cherry tree that gave its life to become what will doubtless be a very cool guitar. Something about caterpillars and butterflies comes to mind.
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I think we need a before and after picture of the cherry tree that gave its life to become what will doubtless be a very cool guitar. Something about caterpillars and butterflies comes to mind.
I just spent the last 20 minutes looking for the pictures of the tree and I am not able to find them. I know I have them somewhere because I was not sure if I would need to have them for the insurance company.
Here is another shot of the boards fresh from the mill.
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I assume you'll be naming the guitar as a George Washington model?
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I assume you'll be naming the guitar as a George Washington model?
lol, I could but I have never actually given my guitars names. This is just the Cherry Tele
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Here is my latest one... JP59 VOS, best guitar I ever owned.
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Cool !!!
I have a R9 Aged by Tom Murphy inspired to the Same Guitar
(page 58 and 59 of The Beauty of the Burst)
I bought in 2013 or 2014 I guess, anyway years before Gibson put out the Joe Perry Signature Serie of Yours.
Here's mine
Here's her sister
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She s a beauty!
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Let's be honest.. THAT guitar is so Epic to deserve Lots of replicas
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You choose your weapons wisely Sir.
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My latest 2 adquisitions, My Gibson SG standard 75 on stock tarback pickups, a Norlin gem that resonates like crazy unplugged. And at the right, my newest Schecter solo ii custom, this one looks like a prototype, the pasadena stocks are one of the jucier pickups I have tried, the pasadena plus stays at volume 7, has so much range in the volume knob that I can go from clean, to classic rock, to hard rock, to modern distortion. Just fantastic. I bought the schecter as I needed to cover the SG for traveling, as I dont want to risk it, but turns out they are really different monsters, did not solve the problem, but damn, I am satisfied.
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This is my favourite thread.
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