Heavily worn tele pics?

Val66c · Post by **Val66c** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 6:52 pm

Hi. Does anyone have any pics of heavily worn telecasters? I'm talking rory gallagher, srv level of wear.

StevenO · Post by **StevenO** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 7:11 pm

FireAarro · Post by **FireAarro** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 9:46 pm

StevenO basically nailed the two most famous ones... the hardware on Strummer's tele looks gross!

Val66c · Post by **Val66c** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 10:07 pm

Thanks StevenO.
I can't believe how hard it is to find a pics of really worn teles. I've spent a whole day looking around the net and even have a thread at the reranch forum. Theres heaps of really worn strats but practically no teles.

IPLAYLOUD · Post by **IPLAYLOUD** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:55 am

http://tele.protozoic.com/

http://www.gbase.com/Powered/GearDetail ... tem=771869

http://billkirchen.com/CrosstownArts/cl ... ery_7.html

Tweez · Post by **Tweez** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 12:20 pm

FireAarro wrote: StevenO basically nailed the two most famous ones... the hardware on Strummer's tele looks gross!

I hear Strummer had the whole thing painted by some Auto re-spray guy (without removing the hardware), it evidently used to be sunburst.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:13 am

IPLAYLOUD wrote: http://www.gbase.com/Powered/GearDetail ... tem=771869

Ugh... those look gross! I wouldn't even touch one. And it's not like they'd play nice, they'd feel all crusty and scrape-y, and I dont even think the notes would sound with the saddles all caked up.

Post by **mezcalhead** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:09 am

Yeah .. but imagine what they'd be like, gently but thoroughly cleaned and set-up with new strings.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:16 am

True. And not cleaned TOO much..

Puke+Cry · Post by **Puke+Cry** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 12:05 pm

StevenO wrote:

Did Neil Young play this guitar

frippy · Post by **frippy** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:52 pm

Tweez wrote: I hear Strummer had the whole thing painted by some Auto re-spray guy (without removing the hardware), it evidently used to be sunburst.

That's Strummer's story about the guitar. There are some photos of him in the 101'ers with a sunburst finish tele and early in the Clash it was just plastered with stickers/spray paint. Later it gets the full-on black spray job and new stickers around the time of the Bond's Casino run of shows.

Edit: FWIW Lennon's '58 Ric 325 was painted black by a sign painter and the bloke used auto spray paint, if I remember the story correctly.

thewizardofaz · Post by **thewizardofaz** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 9:42 pm

Here ya go
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v687/ ... H_5141.jpg

rabidhamster · Post by **rabidhamster** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 9:13 pm

neh, dave, those teles were found in an old school house that had flooded. They were for music class. The guys that owned em put em on display because they are so ruined there werent enough good parts on em to make up a single working guitar.

StevenO · Post by **StevenO** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 8:11 am

thewizardofaz wrote: Here ya go
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v687/ ... H_5141.jpg

Who's tele is that?

thewizardofaz · Post by **thewizardofaz** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 9:25 am

I don't know. A guy I know on thestratlist yahoo group posted it to the group as being cool.

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