New Old Fender Day!

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New Old Fender Day!

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This is the smelly old brown thing that caused my big selloff- 1973 Fender Tele Custom in a fetching shade of poo-brown.

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I've been lusting after this particular guitar (or one just like it) for a long time now and it's finally mine*! ALL MINE!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

It's so much fun.

*technically an alternate fact- I haven't quite finished paying for it... but not far off.

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that looks like shit........

in the most beautiful way :)
that is nice Ben
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I remember that from a gearfest. There was some speculation as to exactly where it had been stored.....
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Slowy wrote:I remember that from a gearfest. There was some speculation as to exactly where it had been stored.....
Yes. It's quite... um... funky.

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You like those, eh? You used to have a black one with the Strat type headstock, IIRC?
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Nice, shame its not double hummers though.... does it smell a bit like twigs?
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Vince wrote:You like those, eh? You used to have a black one with the Strat type headstock, IIRC?
Yep. It was a reissue of one of these. Same headstock but black and with a rosewood board.

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Bg wrote:Nice, shame its not double hummers though.... does it smell a bit like twigs?
Nah- this is the configuration I prefer. I utterly love tele bridge pickups, and this one is a corker.

Twigs... is that a euphemism?

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I meant 'sticks', as in 'whats brown and sticky?'.

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Bg wrote:I meant 'sticks', as in 'whats brown and sticky?'.
Ahhh yes those sticks from Thailand :crazy:
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That bridge pickup! Congrats Ben.
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Now that looks cool

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Very nice - always loved Tele customs.

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Was that Grant's Tele ?
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sizzlingbadger wrote:Was that Grant's Tele ?

It was - Ben confessed his love for this a number of years ago. It's such a great sounding guitar.
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