I’ll have to see what I can do with my “Mr Magoo” vision. Maybe I’d better get used to the idea of these simpler, “bolt together” projects. It’s generally feared that waiting lists for “non-critical” surgical procedures might soon extend to several years. It seems that most of my other projects require some elements to be spray painted, and I need better weather for that. A simple bolt-together job, although technically less ambitious than most projects I’ve undertaken, will give me something to concentrate on while I wait for the weather to warm up. Fender Neck and body – the starting pointĪnd my cataract wrecked vision is still limiting a lot of what I can do. It’s the story of the Blues, of Rock and Roll…įor me, the whole process is as much about musical appreciation, as it is about the design technicalities, the sound, or even “the look” of the instrument. For decades now, popular music has evolved as each generation has taken what has gone before, and changed it subtly with their own experience of the music and technology. Trying to get to grips with the same, (or similar),instrument, in roughly the same style – I think that’s how the whole thing gets passed down from generation to generation. Ultimately however, the best bit is always taking the finished instrument, and then learning a song or two, in (whatever approximation I can achieve of), the style of the original artist. Tracking down and sourcing individual parts, which echo or reproduce significant elements on the original, has it’s own fascination too. The research involved along the way is almost as rewarding, in itself, as finishing and eventually playing the finished instrument. Surely – if I wanted “the look” that badly – I could always just go out and buy it off the shelf?īut building “replica” or “inspired by…” guitars is, for me, much more about trying, in some way, to get closer to the artist and the actual practicalities of making their individual “sound”. But then it’s not as if original examples of Fender, “Wilko” Teles aren’t already readily available on the second-hand market. In theory – this should be just about the simplest project I’ve ever undertaken.
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