Y'all may remember a year ago when my brother Chet and I made an emergency run to Oklahoma to be with our brother for the last few days of his life. He passed away one year ago today. I'm honored to present to you the guitar that he started many years ago, but my son Eric and I finished today. Introducing "Bittersweet".

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Robin F. - Master of my own density.

Karaoke - the Japanese word for "death by music"

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Robin F. - Master of my own density.

Karaoke - the Japanese word for "death by music"

I love you, Carl. I miss you.

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Robin F. - Master of my own density.

Karaoke - the Japanese word for "death by music"

What a gorgeous tribute guitar!

+1000!

I am humbled, sir.

Arjay

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"Here's why reliability is job one: A great sounding amp that breaks down goes from being a favorite piece of gear to a useless piece of crap in less time than it takes to read this sentence." -- BRUCE ZINKY

A beautiful guitar and labor of love Redmax!!! Thanks for sharing. You, Chet, and Carl had a great bond together. Impressive!!

Redmax, that's one heavenly Tele.

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No no and no

Beautiful Tele, Robin. I love the fact that the 3 of you were very close. A wonderful tribute to Carl.

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Current Gear: Ron Kirn Barnbuster Tele,
Marshall: 1971 SuperLead 100>1997 1960-TV, bunch of pedals
and a 1987 Porsche 911 Carrera coupe named Veronica

Great guitar Redmax, and a touching tribute to your brother. Thanks for sharing.
Claude.

What a great looking guitar, and a fine tribute to your brother.

Bill

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Hey, Boy Blue is back!

Beautiful guitar! Make sure you jam some of your bros favorite tunes on that thing.

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Thanks for the compliments, guys! I guess I should give the specs:

Warmoth Swamp Ash body with a birdseye top
2Tek bridge
PRS Tremonti bridge pickup
GFS oversize vintage neck pickup
JRS Jatoba/Rosewood neck
Gotoh tuners.

Carl was going to build it as a baritone, but we put a standard scale length neck on it and use really heavy strings. It's tuned down to C#.

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Robin F. - Master of my own density.

Karaoke - the Japanese word for "death by music"

I think Carl would love to know what a beautiful and loving tribute the guitar turned out to be-in fact I'm sure he does.That's a very heartwarming example of a family's love and togetherness.The guitar turned out incredible, the birdseye top is outstanding.

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'65 Strat,65 Mustang,65 Jaguar,4 more Strats,3 vintage Vox guitars,5 Vox amps,'69 Bassman with a '68 2-15 Bassman cab,36 guitars total-15asst'd amps total,2 vintage '60s Hammond organs & a myriad of effects-with a few rare vintage ones.