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Love It Or Hate It, Vintage Guitar Hedge Fund In The Works

6. August 2008

Hahaha… I would LOVE to get in on this. An actual hedge fund based on Vintage Guitar Magazine‘s dreamy “42 Guitar Index” According to several financial media sources, Anchorage Capital, a London investment firm, is expected to launch the Guitar Fund. Set up as a hedge fund, the Guitar Fund will seek investment returns by [...]

EGR’s Great Tele Relic Experiment: Misadventures Of A Neck Surgeon!

29. July 2008

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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 [...]

Tune In Tomorrow For… EGR’s Great Tele Relic Experiment: Misadventures Of A Neck Surgeon!

28. July 2008

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Yeah, I know, it’s been a helluva’ long time since my last update… sorry folks, life has taken some strange twists and turns for me over the last nine months, and being a one-man-show here at EGR means this blog has suffered. Anyway, I won’t bore you with all of my apologies, but I thought [...]

Fender Introduces Billy Corgan Signature Stratocaster

2. July 2008

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Sorry for the disappearance, folks… it would seem that recovery from the loss of a loved one seldom occurs in a nice, straight arc––the last few months have been a real roller-coaster for me. Anyway, I logged in this morning to be pleasantly surprised by the latest Signature Series instrument coming from Fender––the Billy Corgan [...]

EGR’s Great Tele Relic Experiment: Beatin’ The Hell Out Of That Pickguard

17. June 2008

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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 [...]

EGR’s Great Tele Relic Experiment: The Nitty Gritty On The Neck & Fingerboard

10. June 2008

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Exhibit A: (photo, left) Inspiration for our Relic’s neck, courtesy of this gorgeous ’56 Masterbuilt Super Reilc over at the Music Zoo. So having put the body of our so-called Tele Relic to rest (save a few minor dings and scratches that still need to be added,) we have moved on to the most dangerous [...]

EGR’s Great Tele Relic Experiment: Heavenly Body

6. June 2008

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When last we left our Great Tele Relic Experiment, the brand spankin’ new Baja Player’s Telecaster we had purchased on eBay was already looking like she’d seen far better days––but today she’s absolutely dripping with sweaty night club mojo (if we do say so ourselves.) Of course, it was far from an overnight transformation, but [...]

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

20. May 2008

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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 [...]

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