EGR’s Great Tele Relic Experiment: The Poor Man’s Paint Room
Friday, May 16th, 2008OK, so here's our lovely little Baja Telecaster after about five days of start & stop finishing via my "poor man's paint room"–– otherwise known as a cardboard box. One of the beauties of bui É
Read Full Article »EGR’s Great Tele Relic Experiment: First Look At The Hardware
Thursday, May 8th, 2008And now the moment we've all been waiting for... here is our first batch of hardware after spending about six hours in a rock tumbler filled with pea gravel. As you can see, it came out quite nic É
Read Full Article »EGR’s Great Tele Relic Experiment: And So The Work Begins…
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008Welcome To EGR Labs OK, so here's a little look behind the scenes at EGR Labs (aka, my spare room.) Obviously, the Baja Tele we purchased has been taken apart, with great care given to photogr É
Read Full Article »EGR’s Great “Tele Relic” Experiment: Our Guinea Pig Arrives
Friday, May 2nd, 2008So, our guinea pig guitar in the so-called "Great Tele Relic Experiment of 2008" has finally arrived, and this afternoon I managed to get in some decent BEFORE pictures... in the interest of fully d É
Read Full Article »Introducing The Les Paul Push-Tone: Gibson’s Guitar Of The Month For May
Thursday, May 1st, 2008In case you haven't seen it, Gibson's kicking off May with the introduction of the new Les Paul Push-tone––a uniquely versatile instrument in that you can literally push the pickups out É
Read Full Article »Vintage Guitar Reviews The Zemaitis S22 Metal Top
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008If you're an old Zemaitis fiend like myself you'll definitely want to check out Vintage Guitar Magazine's review of the S22 Metal Top. For nearly two years straight I've been trying to get my han É
Read Full Article »Chop Shop: And So Begins EGR’s Great “Tele Relic” Experiment Of 2008
Thursday, April 24th, 2008Exhibit A The photo to the left is the gorgeous Custom Vintage Humbucker Telecaster Heavy Relic in Vintage Blonde, which has been taunting me from Music Zoo's website for nearly a year. I say É
Read Full Article »A Quick Look At Fender’s Master Built ‘61 John Cruz Stratocaster
Thursday, April 24th, 2008If you've ever wondered why I'm constantly drooling over the Master Built '61 John Cruz Stratocaster, wonder no more––classic look and feel, versatile electronics, amazing tone. Now if I j É
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