Check THIS out !!! ( Vintage Tele contecnt )

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    DANOCASTER

    DANOCASTER Silver Supporting Member

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    I bought this recently but just today got it back from a refret / set-up and this thing is KILLER

    It's a '74 I grabbed off Ebay. It was owned by Phil Spalding ( a british bassist who's played with a ton of people and was in the 80s Howe / Hackett band GTR ). It has the orig blonde finish underneath (in pretty nice shape) but was lightly oversprayed in black nitro ages ago and has been signed / doodled on by countless pub bands mostly. Holly Johnston (from Frankie Goes to Hollywood) and Paul Humphreys (from Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark) both did their thing.. anyways. I was gonna "restore" it back to blonde but I cant bear to. In Person , it looks like Rock N Roll history incarnate :)

    And it sounds CRAZY great - newly refretted w/ 6105s - it rings like a BELL !!

    The orig guard ( routed for an 80s dimarzio humbucker ) , the original bridge ( which was nice ), the pickup (which I HATED- super thin and microphonic ) - and the orig 1 meg pots ( on a tele ? NO THANKS ) - were all sold back on Ebay and almost recovered every dollar I paid for the guitar

    Now I can play "Rock The Casbah" in true Joe Strummer-style

    And here it is w/ the AC-10 I just bought thru the Emporium ( BOY, that was a great move too !! )

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    rastus

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    Dano, that may be the coolest thing I have seen from you yet! Brilliant guitar! If there is more vibe than that, I don't wanna see it.
     
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    brentrocks

    brentrocks Guitar Hack/Player Gold Supporting Member

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    wow...that is sweet. lots of cool vibes going on there!!!
     
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    Bonedance

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    Very cool tele Dano and a very wise decision to leave the finish as is. Vibe galore! Oh yeah, the AC-10 is smokin' too! Congrats on two fine finds.
     
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    sleis

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    Thanks for sharing the pictures. I slipped on to browse the forum while in a boring meeting at work and saw this. Cool thing to see in the middle of the most boring meeting ever. I am not much into guitars signed by people with a sharpie, but scratching through the black paint is a very awesome thing to see. It is a combination of seeing graffitti on a college bar wall from the past 30 years and a quick glance at the stuff on the walls at a Hard Rock. Awesome find.
     
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    rastus

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    Ya know, that finish actually does remind me of the bathroom stall at the Goldrush before it was bought and sanitized a couple years back-that or the bathroom wall and dressing room at the the Exit/Inn also before it was rehabbed.
     
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    GP_Hawk

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    WOW!:drool

    That has some history to it. I love it! Nice find.
     
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    Soothsayer

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    Tough call, a blond worn in 74 would be cool.
     
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    noteethleroy

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    That is awesome, and I'm not usually a fan of heavily worn guitars.
     
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    doublee

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    Now THAT is a relic I can understand,
     
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    DANOCASTER

    DANOCASTER Silver Supporting Member

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    yeah.. not a tough call if it would be your THIRD worn blonde though ;)

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    Trandy

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    Yessireee......
     
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    Jahn

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    A tele with an OMD mark on it. that's the coolness.
     
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    Soothsayer

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    That would make it easier...

    In college I got to see OMD in concert, it was alot of fun. The crowd knew all the words and sang back to the band the whole show.
     
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    Todd Lynch

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    Freq-ing love it! Killin' vibe.
     
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    walterw

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    besides, you would probably still have a bunch of graffiti scratches, impressions, etc. if you did strip off the black, so it wouldn't even be that nice of a blonde anyway.

    very cool!
     
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    thewhit

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    That's a much better look than the typical relic which to me looks phony.
     
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    scanlory

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    That has some serious cool mojo. :BEER
     
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