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Your Chance To Win A Prototype American Special Guitar From Fender
In case you missed it, Fender’s just rolled out another guitar giveaway, and this time they are intent on giving away three prototype instruments from the company’s recently announced American Special line. If my memory serves me, all three American Special models –– the American Special Stratocaster, American Special HSS Stratocaster, and American Special Telecaster [...]
Continue reading...Fender Busts Out With Acoustic/Electric Hybrid: The Acoustasonic Tele
22. January 2010
Wow… I definitely didn’t see this one coming, and I have to say I love the design. Check out that rosewood Telecaster bridge! Very cool looking guitar. And Fender has apparently built a truly usable Electric/Acoustic hybrid guitar if word from the NAMM demonstrations are any indication. According to Fender, the new Acoustasonic Tele packs [...]
Continue reading...Fender Announces Squier Classic Vibe Telecaster Thinline & Custom
19. January 2010
Well, the Winter 2010 NAMM show has come and gone, and we’ve got plenty of instrument announcements to take a look at. Fender has added to its Squier brand of instruments with the debut of two more vintage-inspired ‘Classic Vibe’ guitars –– the Classic Vibe Telecaster Thinline and Classic Vibe Telecaster Custom –– based on [...]
Continue reading...Fender Reveals New ‘American Special’ Line Of Guitars
12. January 2010
Well, it’s NAMM time again folks, and that means new guitars and gear coming out of the woodwork. For its part, Fender this week announced the release of a whole new line of guitars, dubbed the American Specials. Comprised of the American Special Telecaster, American Special Stratocaster, and American Special Stratocaster HSS, this latest edition [...]
Continue reading...Vintage Guitar Puts Fender’s G.E. Smith Tele Through Its Paces
20. October 2009
When Fender first announced its G.E. Smith Signature Telecaster back in early 2007 I immediately attempted to get my hands on one for review, but alas, these beauties just aren’t that easy to come by. I’ve been particularly intrigued by the instrument’s body-mounted bridge pickup, which should help mitigate traditional Tele feedback issues in high-gain [...]
Continue reading...Fender Shows Off ‘Road Worn’ Series, New Amps @ NAMM 2009
16. January 2009
Yep, it’s that time again… Winter NAMM 2009 is now in full swing, and even though difficulties in my offline life have kept me from attending for the last two years straight, I’m certainly there in spirit! The big news from Fender this season (at least as far as electric guitar enthusiasts are concerned,) is [...]
Continue reading...EGR’s Great Tele Relic Experiment: Misadventures Of A Neck Surgeon!
29. July 2008
Okay, so as promised, here’s a little look at our Tele Relic’s neck now that it’s been sanded, dinged to hell, tinted with wood stain, and all finished up with vintage amber nitro finish. Over all, we are mighty happy with the results, though it took quite a few tries to get it right… As [...]
Continue reading...EGR’s Great Tele Relic Experiment: Beatin’ The Hell Out Of That Pickguard
17. June 2008
As promised, I thought today I’d write down some of my thoughts on the creative process of aging our pickguard. First things first, we tossed aside our Baja Tele’s single-ply black pickguard and went hunting for a nice retro-style mint green one to replace it. Unfortunately, finding a mint-green guard in a 5-hole configuration wasn’t [...]
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11. March 2010
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