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EGR’s Great Tele Relic Experiment: Aging The Body, Adding Some Grime

20. May 2008

OK, so here are a few various iterations of our Relic Tele as we play around with different types of faux aging. Since this is truly an experiment, and we have absolutely no experience applying wear & tear to guitars––other than the good old fashioned way––we are taking our time to find out what works [...]

EGR’s Great Tele Relic Experiment: The Poor Man’s Paint Room

16. May 2008

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OK, 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 building a Relic, I suppose, is that the finish doesn’t need to be absolutely perfect, so we were able to get [...]

EGR’s Great Tele Relic Experiment: And So The Work Begins…

7. May 2008

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Welcome 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 photographing the wiring (it’s an S1 system) since we don’t want to run into difficulties putting it back together. All [...]

EGR’s Great “Tele Relic” Experiment: Our Guinea Pig Arrives

2. May 2008

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So, 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 documenting this project I am posting them here for all to see. I’m happy to say that this guitar plays beautifully, [...]

Chop Shop: And So Begins EGR’s Great “Tele Relic” Experiment Of 2008

24. April 2008

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Exhibit 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 “taunting” because there’s no way in hell I would personally pay Fender over $3,000 just to pre-age a guitar for me… [...]

Limited Run Fender “Thin Skin” ’52 Telecaster Now Available

13. September 2007

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If you missed your chance at the popular ’06 run you might want to do some digging around at a few of the higher-end guitar retailers (no, GC doesn’t count,) because a new limited run of Fender Thin Skin ’52 Teles in Butterscotch Blonde is hitting stores, and like their predecessors they’re likely to be [...]

Fender’s Famous Rosewood Telecaster

16. May 2007

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The following is a guest-post by Mike Withrow. There’s a great story about George Harrison’s Solid Rosewood Telecaster that he played on Let It Be and the Beatles’ rooftop concert. It was flown and hand delivered to the Beatles’ Abbey Road studios in London from Fender Guitar headquarters in the U.S. as a special gift. [...]

Rare Find: Flying Tiger/Hell’s Angels Esquire with Matching Pro Junior

13. March 2007

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Wow––check out this Custom Painted Esquire & matching Pro Junior amp… The one of a kind “Flying Tiger” Esquire was apparently unveiled at this year’s Winter NAMM Show, though this is the first I’ve heard of it. According to The Music Zoo’s website––where the instrument is selling for a paltry $17,500 (hey, it listed at [...]

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