1960 Fender Telecaster Replica

SOLD

This is a parts-build replica of a 1960 Fender Telecaster finished in a lightly aged white-blond nitro lacquer. Final weight 7.1lbs

  • Genuine Fender AVII neck

  • Guitar Build 3 piece lightweight swamp ash body (2.1lbs)

  • Genuine Fender bridge & control plate

  • Compensated brass saddles

  • Kluston tuners

  • Bare Knuckle Blackguard ‘55 Stagger pickup set

  • Bare Knuckle control set; CTS pots / switch, Bare Knuckle cap

  • Lightly aged nitrocellulose lacquer - tinted clear coat over white blonde

1952 Blackguard Telecaster replica

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Parts build replica of a 1952 Blackguard Fender Telecaster, light / medium relic butterscotch nitrocellulose lacquer. Final weight 6.7lbs

  • Genuine Fender AVII Blackguard neck

  • Guitar Build 2 piece Swamp Ash body (1.8lbs)

  • Genuine Fender hardware

  • Fender Custom Shop Nocaster pickups

  • CTS switch & pots

  • Compensated brass saddles

  • Medium / light relic butterscotch lacquer

Gibson L5 Wes Montgomery Custom

£7,900

This was bought at auction with various issues; there were cracks on the top and sides, the previous owner had done a very crude installation of a Charlie Christian pickup and the frets needed work to bring the most out of the guitar. See my Case Studies page for the full story

All the structural issues have been addressed; cracks have been glued and pinned with spruce cleats, the mounting holes for the CC pickup have been fitted with spruce dowels and the pickup mounting hole has been rebuilt to the original humbucker size and the pickup has been replaced with a Gibson ‘57 Classic.

Where necessary the guitar has been refinished with nitrocellulose lacquer.

  • 1991 Gibson Custom Shop L5 Wes Montgomery model

  • Gibson 57’ Classic pickup with original wiring loom.

  • Carved solid spruce top

  • Maple back, sides & neck

  • Ebony board, 12” radius

  • Original Gibson case

This is a really wonderful instrument - definitely player’s grade in as much as it has had some significant repairs, but, despite baring a few scars, it is a piece of extraordinary guitar building craft. I have taken over a year of obsessive attention to detail to restore this instrument and it is probably playing better now than it has in decades.

1960 Gibson ES125TDC Restoration

I sourced this guitar as a husk with a broken headstock and have since carried out a full restoration. See my Case Studies page for full details.

£3,500

  • 1960 Gibson ES125TDC

  • Brazilian Rosewood fingerboard

  • Mahogany neck

  • Laminate maple fully hollow body

  • Monty’s ‘ ‘54 P90 set