*ITS HERE!* 63 Franken-Tele

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Re: *ITS HERE!* 63 Franken-Tele

Post by Telliot » Sun Feb 27, 2022 8:19 am

What an amazing guitar, congrats! I think this will go down as one of the standouts in OSG history.
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Re: *ITS HERE!* 63 Franken-Tele

Post by JSett » Sun Feb 27, 2022 8:32 am

So, a little history to go with this. It was bought in the late 60's and kept in the owners possession until his untimely death on Christmas Eve, aged 75. His friend (who had a lovely all-original '62 Tele I got to play) was entrusted by his widow to sell off the equipment. No one knows what happened to the original neck, or how it come to have a Broadcaster decal added. All the mods were done by the owner apart from the B-Bender conversion.

The B-bender was installed by a British session Banjo player and luthier called Keith Nelson. A bit of googling shows that Keith was a well regarded musician and worked on many guitars, including an SG gifted (in 4 pieces) from Pete Townsend to Albert Lee.

'Doctor' Noel Brown was gigging with the guitar until the week before he died. Here he is doing his stuff...

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Re: *ITS HERE!* 63 Franken-Tele

Post by Telliot » Sun Feb 27, 2022 8:42 am

Aww, that makes this thing even cooler. :-*
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Re: *ITS HERE!* 63 Franken-Tele

Post by Pacafeliz » Sun Feb 27, 2022 9:00 am

Gosh that's 130% just my kinda thing :?

I'm actually suffering 190% envy.

PS: never change A THING on it man!!!
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Re: *ITS HERE!* 63 Franken-Tele

Post by zhivago » Sun Feb 27, 2022 9:05 am

johnnysomersett wrote: ↑
Sun Feb 27, 2022 7:55 am
zhivago wrote: ↑
Sun Feb 27, 2022 7:41 am
 This is quite possibly one of the coolest guitars I have ever seen on the internet!

The tort guard blows it off the charts! :-*
The tort is glorious. I'm struggling to find any 60s Teles that had tort as stock though.
I am pretty sure I've seen one or two...the Clarence White Tele, now owned by Marty Stewart had one:

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Re: *ITS HERE!* 63 Franken-Tele

Post by JSett » Sun Feb 27, 2022 9:13 am

zhivago wrote: ↑
Sun Feb 27, 2022 9:05 am
I am pretty sure I've seen one or two...the Clarence White Tele, now owned by Marty Stewart had one:

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Ahhh, of course. I have seen that one actually, completely forgot. That's a gnarly looking telecaster
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Re: *ITS HERE!* 63 Franken-Tele

Post by PorkyPrimeCut » Sun Feb 27, 2022 9:46 am

johnnysomersett wrote: ↑
Sun Feb 27, 2022 9:13 am
 ...That's a gnarly looking telecaster
Almost a case of the pot calling the kettle black ;)

I fucking love Teles with Strat/JM headstocks!
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Re: *ITS HERE!* 63 Franken-Tele

Post by marqueemoon » Sun Feb 27, 2022 10:11 am

Well, the Monster Teles thread can be closed now.
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Post by Maggieo » Sun Feb 27, 2022 4:15 pm

I was coming here to say, "Don't let Marty Stuart know about this!!!"
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Re: *ITS HERE!* 63 Franken-Tele

Post by s_mcsleazy » Sun Feb 27, 2022 7:03 pm

you gonna grab the vox's ?
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Re: *ITS HERE!* 63 Franken-Tele

Post by JSett » Sun Feb 27, 2022 10:47 pm

s_mcsleazy wrote: ↑
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 you gonna grab the vox's ?
If he accepts my offer, maybe. He wanted too much considering their condition and they were across the city so I couldn't have an actual look at the state they were in (30yrs in a shed)
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Re: *ITS HERE!* 63 Franken-Tele

Post by luau » Mon Feb 28, 2022 12:07 am

Well, wow. Congrats on the find.
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Re: *ITS HERE!* 63 Franken-Tele

Post by JSett » Mon Feb 28, 2022 1:35 am

The quandary I now have is what the hell do I put down as the value for my insurance?!?
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Re: *ITS HERE!* 63 Franken-Tele

Post by s_mcsleazy » Mon Feb 28, 2022 6:11 am

johnnysomersett wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 28, 2022 1:35 am
 The quandary I now have is what the hell do I put down as the value for my insurance?!?
for my insurance. i just value the ones i built at a rough idea of value of parts + 10% for labour
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Re: *ITS HERE!* 63 Franken-Tele

Post by gishuk » Mon Feb 28, 2022 7:03 am

I dont know how the hell you find these things but I am jealous, that guitar is PERFECT!
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