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EGR’s Great Tele Relic Experiment: The Poor Man’s Paint Room
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 [...]
Continue reading...EGR’s Great Tele Relic Experiment: First Look At The Hardware
8. May 2008
And 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 nicely. It’s hard to say whether I will attempt the “acid bath” on these as well. I guess [...]
Continue reading...EGR’s Great Tele Relic Experiment: And So The Work Begins…
7. May 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...EGR’s Great “Tele Relic” Experiment: Our Guinea Pig Arrives
2. May 2008
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, [...]
Continue reading...Introducing The Les Paul Push-Tone: Gibson’s Guitar Of The Month For May
1. May 2008
In 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 of the back of the guitar, unclip the wires, and swap in a completely different set of pickups, apparently in minutes. While this isn’t [...]
Continue reading...Vintage Guitar Reviews The Zemaitis S22 Metal Top
29. April 2008
If 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 hands on one of the new Zemaitis models, but as with many boutique instruments, they are incredibly difficult to track down [...]
Continue reading...Chop Shop: And So Begins EGR’s Great “Tele Relic” Experiment Of 2008
24. April 2008
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… [...]
Continue reading...A Quick Look At Fender’s Master Built ’61 John Cruz Stratocaster
24. April 2008
If 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 just had $5,000 lying around…
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16. May 2008
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