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  • FunkfingersFunkfingers Frets: 14501
    Strat54 said:
    How about a '53 Tele that was altered so much that they restored it with complete new veneers both front and back? 
    Not even vintage instruments with world famous former owners are immune from this sort of abuse.

    Jaco Pastorius' number one defretted bass got veneered.

    Mike Bloomfield's Telecaster was modified to left-handed - complete with second upper bout cutaway.

    I cannot remember what was done to James Jamerson's number one Precision Bass. (It got stolen. I cannot recall whether it has since resurfaced?)
    You say, atom bomb. I say, tin of corned beef.
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  • KKJaleKKJale Frets: 982
    Jamerson's main P-bass has never resurfaced and sadly, since James Junior died, if it did show up, there is now nobody that could authenticate it - only he knew exactly how the letters carved on the heel looked.

    There's a huge thread on Talkbass if you're into memorising tortoiseshell patterns like I am er, like a friend of mine is.

    Someone was selling a claimed JJ bass a year or two ago, saying it was a gift in the '60s, and the main archive pic they used actually showed a different instrument... it had a hootenanny strap, but the bass for sale had no screw hole. Bonkers. 
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  • FunkfingersFunkfingers Frets: 14501
    KKJale said:
    a hootenanny strap
    As used by on Jools Holland? ;)
    You say, atom bomb. I say, tin of corned beef.
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  • Strat54Strat54 Frets: 2397
    edited April 2018
    The Tele probably looked something like this before the reconstruction...

    https://flic.kr/p/4s9w9B

    Sad thing is someone just paid $13k for it....sold in a day! 
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  • 57Deluxe57Deluxe Frets: 7344
    John Oates played that like shit and that tone is pants.... and me a lifelong H&O fan and albums owner...
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  • ClashmanClashman Frets: 176
    Back needs reattatching ...
    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/EKO-RANGER-12-STRING-ACOUSTIC-1960S-SPARES-OR-REPAIR/202284239390?hash=item2f19148a1e:g:NsgAAOSwXRxay3Ov

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  • GuyBodenGuyBoden Frets: 745
    Strat54 said:
    Only Linc Chamberland's (who he?) biggest fan.

    Linc Chamberland was a great Unknown Jazz Tele player. Apparently...............


    Linc Chamberland playing 'Have you met Miss Jones', amazing technique.








    "Music makes the rules, music is not made from the rules."
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