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Post subject: Patching a hole in a 1953 Tele Stew Mac
Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2016 7:42 am
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https://youtu.be/CUUuMzxJ9h8
I would post the video not sure if it is possible, this is from the stew mac site. Dan Erlewine replaces the missing wood, I found it very enlightening, hope you do to
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Post subject: Re: Patching a hole in a 1953 Tele Stew Mac
Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2016 10:40 am
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Post subject: Re: Patching a hole in a 1953 Tele Stew Mac
Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2016 6:23 pm
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mud wrote:
Dan Erlewine replaces the missing wood, I found it very enlightening, hope you do to.

I'm not sure why anyone would want to do this to a Tele body, even if it is a '53 Tele body, other than Dan Erlewine would want to do this because he is making a lot of money, from some fool who paid a lot of money for a guitar billed as a "'53 Telecaster," which apparently has little, if any, originality.
A replacement ash body would be a lot less work, probably look better, and sound just as good. as the original.......

In the end, post surgery, I would imagine that this '53 Tele (body) has very little original value, "with little plugged wholes all over it"; and with a huge Erlewine "Dutchman" on it's face, following this massive "plastic surgery"; save that the owner could claim that Dan Erlewine made a video of this guitar repair.
Assuming that the '53 neck is in any form of original, playable shape and condition, I would think that the guitar owner would have been much better off to have sold the guitar parted out, and avoid Dan's substantial repair costs, which certainly were in the "multiple four figures".
But then again, as P.T. Barnum once said, "there's a sucker born every second......."


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Post subject: Re: Patching a hole in a 1953 Tele Stew Mac
Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2016 6:54 am
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If you are into relic'ing, the last couple minutes have some tips.

Not for the squeamish.

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Post subject: Re: Patching a hole in a 1953 Tele Stew Mac
Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2016 10:55 am
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MickJagger wrote:
I'm not sure why anyone would want to do this to a Tele body, even if it is a '53 Tele body, other than Dan Erlewine would want to do this because he is making a lot of money, from some fool who paid a lot of money for a guitar billed as a "'53 Telecaster," which apparently has little, if any, originality.

Someone seems envious.


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Post subject: Re: Patching a hole in a 1953 Tele Stew Mac
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 5:37 pm
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arth1 wrote:
MickJagger wrote:
I'm not sure why anyone would want to do this to a Tele body, even if it is a '53 Tele body, other than Dan Erlewine would want to do this because he is making a lot of money, from some fool who paid a lot of money for a guitar billed as a "'53 Telecaster," which apparently has little, if any, originality.

Someone seems envious.

Showing off your brilliance, once again, I see.....


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Post subject: Re: Patching a hole in a 1953 Tele Stew Mac
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2016 1:55 pm
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MickJagger wrote:
arth1 wrote:
MickJagger wrote:
I'm not sure why anyone would want to do this to a Tele body, even if it is a '53 Tele body, other than Dan Erlewine would want to do this because he is making a lot of money, from some fool who paid a lot of money for a guitar billed as a "'53 Telecaster," which apparently has little, if any, originality.

Someone seems envious.

Showing off your brilliance, once again, I see.....

Heck I thought it was a pretty good fix, didnt mean to start a 2 cent quibble.
I think I will stay away from the tele forum seems a bit Over-Wound for my taste
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Post subject: Re: Patching a hole in a 1953 Tele Stew Mac
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2016 8:17 pm
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mud wrote:
MickJagger wrote:
arth1 wrote:
MickJagger wrote:
I'm not sure why anyone would want to do this to a Tele body, even if it is a '53 Tele body, other than Dan Erlewine would want to do this because he is making a lot of money, from some fool who paid a lot of money for a guitar billed as a "'53 Telecaster," which apparently has little, if any, originality.

Someone seems envious.

Showing off your brilliance, once again, I see.....

Heck I thought it was a pretty good fix, didnt mean to start a 2 cent quibble.
I think I will stay away from the tele forum seems a bit Over-Wound for my taste
mud

There's no reason to do that mud man.
It is a pretty nice repair, which would be exceptional if Dan would have kept the whole issue of the body being a '53 Tele that he was "saving," out of the video.
Sometimes you have to read between the lines to understand what is happening.

For a notable repair guy like Dan Erlewine to engage in this extensive repair, implies to me that this obviously expensive repair, is somehow supposed to be maintaining the value of this '53 Telecaster, which in my opinion, it is not.

A '53 Telecaster may be worth anywhere from $20,000.00 to $60,000.00, relatively speaking, or possibly more depending on it's degree of prominence.
A repair like this one may be a great repair, but the value of this reconstructed '53 Telecaster, assuming that the neck is playable, has probably plummeted to not more than $5,000.00, or almost the cost of the body repair, unless you find a sucker willing to buy it for more, or wish to hold onto the guitar for some sentimental value that you may have.
That is my constructive analysis of the video, despite the great documented repair, which I hope you are able to understand.

As for any gamesmanship between arth1 and I, please don't allow that to scare you away from this forum.
A little rough and tumble now and then is good for the soul!!!
And hopefully gives some of you guys an occasional laugh.
If you stick around this forum, you will probably come to understand the different guitar philosophies that are sometimes argued here in the Lounge, which strive to be of a relatively good nature; if with a tad bit of friction, which keeps it all real.

Hang in there dude.


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