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Thunderbird Club

Got invited to a super hero party.

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My super power was hitting the open bar for Kingfisher Ultra.

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For the most part I’m opposed to ruining a perfectly good instrument, but something about that one speaks to me…

of course I will keep it in mint condition….

a while back I traded a set of cheapo pickups for this tele body…. I brushed on a layer of two of shellac, and I’m positive I shellaced some dirt and insects into it…




Then I saw these matching Billy and Dusty geetars and I really liked them…. turns out they were pretty much just stickers made to look like a flood damaged geetar Billy saw somewhere on the interwebz…

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Those inspired this…




going back even further, I was fortunate to get a few geetar lessons from Scott Henderson, and he had this beat to poopie strat that I loved…

so I made this from a $60 geetar, and for several years it was my only electric…





Ok maybe I like beat to poopie geetars more than I thought…
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For the most part I’m opposed to ruining a perfectly good instrument, but something about that one speaks to me…

of course I will keep it in mint condition….

a while back I traded a set of cheapo pickups for this tele body…. I brushed on a layer of two of shellac, and I’m positive I shellaced some dirt and insects into it…




Then I saw these matching Billy and Dusty geetars and I really liked them…. turns out they were pretty much just stickers made to look like a flood damaged geetar Billy saw somewhere on the interwebz…

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Those inspired this…




going back even further, I was fortunate to get a few geetar lessons from Scott Henderson, and he had this beat to poopie strat that I loved…

so I made this from a $60 geetar, and for several years it was my only electric…





Ok maybe I like beat to poopie geetars more than I thought…
I kind of like the barnwood tele. The black strat is cool as well.
 
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It's a custom build. That neck started out as a cheap Ibanez med scale with a headstock like this.
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I cut the sides down square and glued up some maple to it and cut out the tbird shape. Also narrowed the whole neck from nut to heel and reshaped the profile. Finished product came out like this.
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Nice old school stereo and album collection too!