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Post subject: Played til my fingers Bled
Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 11:13 pm
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Well not quite. Just finished my Tele project yesterday night and I can't put it down. I was almost finished last spring (see thread Almost Finished) but when I reinstalled the bridge after grounding the lil 59 PU a screw broke off in the body I was so pissed and bummed that it sat until yesterday. I switched the lil 59 for a hot alincoIII tele pickup to better match the 250k pots. It has mid and neck tex-mex strat to finish it off. Man does it growl. I still have a little tweaking on the intonation but it sounds great on open chords ie D, G, E, which makes me want to leave it alone. I wired the 5 way backwards but no biggie cuz I think I might reverse the control plate and Vol and Tone. I need to get some headphones though as the wife needs to get some sleep. I still have a few more days of vacation Yeehaw :D

I'm sure a few of you guys that got new guitars for christmas are feeling the same way. Ohh it hurts so good 8)


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Got any pictures of that Tele Red?

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Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 1:56 pm
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Can't get my camera to hook up to computer so here on from an old post


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Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 2:31 pm
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she's pretty :shock:


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Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 3:19 pm
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That's a nice collection you have Tanner. 8) I was actually thinking about a color similiar to your tele in a transparent finish but it was only available in a water base locally and I was a little reluctant to try it, I worried it might raise the grain and not work well with the lacquer clearcoat I planned on using.


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Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 3:21 pm
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idahored wrote:
That's a nice collection you have Tanner. 8) I was actually thinking about a color similiar to your tele in a transparent finish but it was only available in a water base locally and I was a little reluctant to try it, I worried it might raise the grain and not work well with the lacquer clearcoat I planned on using.


thank you. :D you could always order the paint threw warmoth.
they would probably have the color you're looking for.


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Beautiful! :D

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Was it the summer of '69?
Did Jimmy quit?
Did Joey get married?
Were those the best years of you life?
Were you like, .... 11 years old at the time?

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Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 11:32 pm
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BMW-KTM wrote:
Was it the summer of '69?
Did Jimmy quit?
Did Joey get married?
Were those the best years of you life?
Were you like, .... 11 years old at the time?


I wished I was only 11 in 69 and Where'd the F--- That come from anyway


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Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 11:40 pm
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idahored wrote:
BMW-KTM wrote:
Was it the summer of '69?
Did Jimmy quit?
Did Joey get married?
Were those the best years of you life?
Were you like, .... 11 years old at the time?


I wished I was only 11 in 69 and Where'd the F--- That come from anyway



Dude - he's making a funny... lyrics from a Brian Adams song... And hey, I WAS 11 years old in '69!

"Summer of '69"

I got my first real six-string
Bought it at the five-and-dime
Played it 'till my fingers bled
Was the summer of 69

Me and some guys from school
Had a band and we tried real hard
Jimmy quit and Joey got married
Shoulda known we'd never get far

Oh when I look back now
That summer seemed to last forever
And if I had the choice
Yeah - I'd always wanna be there
Those were the best days of my life

Ain't no use in complainin'
When you got a job to do
Spent my evenin's down at the drive-in
And that's when I met you yeah

Standin' on your Mama's porch
You told me that you'd wait forever
Oh and when you held my hand
I knew that it was now or never
Those were the best days of my life
Back in the summer of 69

Man we were killin' time
We were young and restless
We needed to unwind
I guess nothin' can last forever - forever, no,yeah

And now the times are changin'
Look at everything that's come and gone
Sometimes when I play that old six-string
I think about you, wonder what went wrong

Standin' on your Mama's porch
You told me that it'd last forever
Oh when you held my hand
I knew that it was now or never
Those were the best days of my life, oh yeah
Back in the summer of 69,uh-huh
It was the summer of 69,o yeah, me n my baby in 69
It was the summer, the summer, summer of 69

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Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 11:51 pm
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Hey RickyD, Thanks for pointing that out to me Guess I missed the funny. My wife says I'm a cranky old man too :?


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idahored wrote:
Hey RickyD, Thanks for pointing that out to me Guess I missed the funny. My wife says I'm a cranky old man too :?


Yup. I'm so cranky that I just chuckle when I watch "Grumpy Old Men". They're amateurs!

By the way - I love your Tele. Very nice job!

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BMW-KTM wrote:
Was it the summer of '69?
Did Jimmy quit?
Did Joey get married?
Were those the best years of you life?
Were you like, .... 11 years old at the time?


Damn you beat me to it :D

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Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 9:29 am
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I always chuckle when I hear that song because all that serious life changing stuff was happening in their lives like
getting married and getting day jobs but Bryan Adams was like 10 or 11 years old in 1969.

Those were the best days of his life. It's all a downhill slide after 10 gentlemen.

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Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 11:28 am
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Another song that gets me is that one by Kid Rock. Stole the music to Werewolves of London and a few lines of Sweet Home Alabama, Talks about drinking Jack when he was only old enough to drink kool-aid and a cigarette made him dizzy. :lol:

Thanks for bringing me off of my cranky cloud.

I think I'll call my new guitar a TeleCastrator :idea:


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