1967 Silvertone 1439L. 2005 Fender Mustang…2023 Squire Mustang.
Thank you. Has Seymour Duncan Antiquities in it. Eric Johnson tone control mod on the bridge pup. Trem is blocked. Sounds pretty good. Plays pretty good.Very nice
Is your son a luthier? That's a great looking guitar, and I fully support your decision to never part with it. The one I opened the thread with will never go anywhere, and I have at least one other that I may post eventually that won't leave... and maybe the older Taylor, because it's the one I've had the longest. We've been through some stuff together.... Oh yeah, and my wife's aunt's 1966 Gibson Dove, because it was Aunt Morene's... and... oh shoot, I can't get rid of any of them.Here's my newest. My son made this one for me out of a chunk of eucalyptus.
And because blues is my obsession, he embedded a glow-in-the -dark map
of the Mississippi River from Memphis to Vicksburg. He also incorporated a
few details made from family heirlooms. Made the strap too. Neither of us wanted to
ship it so I drove out to Phoenix and brought it home. It's a little on the hefty side
but sounds very nice and gets played about every day. This one stays with me to the end.
Here's my newest. My son made this one for me out of a chunk of eucalyptus.
And because blues is my obsession, he embedded a glow-in-the -dark map
of the Mississippi River from Memphis to Vicksburg. He also incorporated a
few details made from family heirlooms. Made the strap too. Neither of us wanted to
ship it so I drove out to Phoenix and brought it home. It's a little on the hefty side
but sounds very nice and gets played about every day. This one stays with me to the end.
very coolHere's my newest. My son made this one for me out of a chunk of eucalyptus.
And because blues is my obsession, he embedded a glow-in-the -dark map
of the Mississippi River from Memphis to Vicksburg. He also incorporated a
few details made from family heirlooms. Made the strap too. Neither of us wanted to
ship it so I drove out to Phoenix and brought it home. It's a little on the hefty side
but sounds very nice and gets played about every day. This one stays with me to the end.
That is a great story and a special guitar. I'm sure it has a unique tone.I will post one more... The body and neck on this one are also made of Koa
My dad was stationed at Pearl Harbor in the early '50s in the Navy, my older sister was born there. They wanted some Koa furniture, but it was pretty expensive, so they bought a slab of Koa wood, shipped it back to the mainland, where my uncle made it into a coffee table. I remember the table being in our living room until I was about 14 or 15 years old.
I found the coffee table in mom's attic several years ago, and took it to Liggett Guitars (Liggett Guitars) in Owasso, and Ben built this custom guitar from it. There is a picture of my sister when she was about a year old that they took in Honolulu, wearing a Hawaiian Lei, a straw hat, and a grass skirt. Ben made a scrimshaw image of the photo and inlaid it into the 12th fret on the neck. We call it The Hula Girl Guitar.
Ben is an artist and craftsman, having him build a guitar is like building your own AR-15.... you get everything exactly as you want it.
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