Jusatele
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I was 4 when she was built, when I was nine, my father was buying me a Mustang, 69 competition orange with a yellow stripe. And I saw her the first time.
It was love at first site, hanging on the wall was a 62 fiesta red custom order Telecaster, the custom order I was told was the maple fingerboard, in 62 Production Teles had Rosewood.
I asked to play her and finally she was taken down and put in my hands. Nothing had ever excited me so much in my short life than holding a real professional guitar. I had in my hands a Telecaster, It was one of those guitars at that time you just felt you could only afford if you found a buried treasure. I messed with it a bit, the scale was to long for me and I walked out with my Mustang.
Sitting in the car I kept wondering why my father was taking so long inside, He walked out after 15 minutes and we went home where I had to do extra chores for the next year to pay for the extra 64 dollars that Mustang cost over the 40 dollar I had save by not spending my allowance for close to a year, yes a dollar a week takes time to buy your first electric.
My Fathers excuse for being in the music store so long was he spent 10 dollars for a 4 watt used tube amp so I could play. I continued studying classical guitar but when ever my father allowed me I plugged in the Mustang and Played rock and roll and outlawed country. About the age of 12 I had outgrown the abilities of the Mustang and was dying to get a REAL guitar. when Christmas came around around my father asked for my mustang and asked if I would trade it for a Tele. I cussed I was so excited and after a back hand for cussing in front of my mother and sister, he took me to his bedroom and pulled a guitar case from under the bed, in it was the Fiesta Red Tele I had fallen in love with and talked about for 6 months the day I bought my Mustang.
My heart soured as I picked it up and ran my fingers down the strings. o they were rusted, been sitting 3 years but I had a fresh set in my room and that day I played till my fingers bleed.
Advance till I am 51, that Tele which had been my best friend for close to 4 decades is totally worn out, the body is split, the neck is shot, the pick guard had lost pieces broken off, and someone offered me 16 gs for it. I sold it, I was unemployed and that represented not having touch savings to pay the house note for a year. And I cried.
I built Barn Door, and I love that guitar, she sounds so much like what I want to sound like. But she is not my TWANG MONSTER 62 RED HEADED WHORE
Today, at 12:43 UPS pulled up and there was my Warmoth Package, A Vintage Adler Tele Body.
I opened her and ran my fingers over here looking for every flaw, there are 2 sets of very fine seasons cracks, I will have to uses a grain filler/sealer on the front but she is perfect
Tomorrow the build starts, I will use a thin water based filler and sand back to 600, I am about to order a primer and Fiesta Red Nitro from ReRanch to set it off right and then the fun will begin
Pics are soon to start showing up, by December I expect to have her finished and I fully expect to have a nice replacement for the guitar I loved.
It was love at first site, hanging on the wall was a 62 fiesta red custom order Telecaster, the custom order I was told was the maple fingerboard, in 62 Production Teles had Rosewood.
I asked to play her and finally she was taken down and put in my hands. Nothing had ever excited me so much in my short life than holding a real professional guitar. I had in my hands a Telecaster, It was one of those guitars at that time you just felt you could only afford if you found a buried treasure. I messed with it a bit, the scale was to long for me and I walked out with my Mustang.
Sitting in the car I kept wondering why my father was taking so long inside, He walked out after 15 minutes and we went home where I had to do extra chores for the next year to pay for the extra 64 dollars that Mustang cost over the 40 dollar I had save by not spending my allowance for close to a year, yes a dollar a week takes time to buy your first electric.
My Fathers excuse for being in the music store so long was he spent 10 dollars for a 4 watt used tube amp so I could play. I continued studying classical guitar but when ever my father allowed me I plugged in the Mustang and Played rock and roll and outlawed country. About the age of 12 I had outgrown the abilities of the Mustang and was dying to get a REAL guitar. when Christmas came around around my father asked for my mustang and asked if I would trade it for a Tele. I cussed I was so excited and after a back hand for cussing in front of my mother and sister, he took me to his bedroom and pulled a guitar case from under the bed, in it was the Fiesta Red Tele I had fallen in love with and talked about for 6 months the day I bought my Mustang.
My heart soured as I picked it up and ran my fingers down the strings. o they were rusted, been sitting 3 years but I had a fresh set in my room and that day I played till my fingers bleed.
Advance till I am 51, that Tele which had been my best friend for close to 4 decades is totally worn out, the body is split, the neck is shot, the pick guard had lost pieces broken off, and someone offered me 16 gs for it. I sold it, I was unemployed and that represented not having touch savings to pay the house note for a year. And I cried.
I built Barn Door, and I love that guitar, she sounds so much like what I want to sound like. But she is not my TWANG MONSTER 62 RED HEADED WHORE
Today, at 12:43 UPS pulled up and there was my Warmoth Package, A Vintage Adler Tele Body.
I opened her and ran my fingers over here looking for every flaw, there are 2 sets of very fine seasons cracks, I will have to uses a grain filler/sealer on the front but she is perfect
Tomorrow the build starts, I will use a thin water based filler and sand back to 600, I am about to order a primer and Fiesta Red Nitro from ReRanch to set it off right and then the fun will begin
Pics are soon to start showing up, by December I expect to have her finished and I fully expect to have a nice replacement for the guitar I loved.
