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Tele is finished $1100 later and incredible! Ebony fretboard and Stainless Steel frets ooooh !

Up close of the Macassar Ebony fretboard really pretty stuff. Oh yeah I forgot to point out that it has 23 Frets ! Unique is a good word to use.

My main guitar (the one I most frequently reach for) is a Kalamazoo KG-2. The previous owner did a very nice candy apple red finish on it (matching headstock!) and custom-cut an aluminum pick guard...out of a stop sign. (Found that after I bought it.) I wired it, sourced several different wraparound bridges (finally Schaller did the trick), and had it refretted. It's probably due for another, as the G bottoms out a lot, and it's been 15 years or so. Here's me playing it a few years back...

And while you can't see me here, I'm holding it up behind Branca in this photo, being careful not to bonk him in the head:

(That's the bridge before the Schaller.)

While I have a lot of others--mostly cheap ones (couple Univoxen, bunch of very low-end Japanese guitars for different tunings)--there's also a Dano Baritone, an Epiphone bass, and I won a Moog thanks to Premier Guitar. But that all doesn't stop me from having reasons to pick up a few more, and that includes a month and a half ago, when I went to a local pedal swap with a Boss Chorus I wasn't using, hoping to trade for something interesting--bitcrusher? Weird modulation? Strange fuzz? and then I saw this, with a $25 price tag on it:

Would the guy who built it take a pedal in trade? "Sure!" and so there it was: nearly fretless neck from a 12-string acoustic (head sawed off), plywood street-Klein body shape in purple house paint, zither tuners, weird pink pickup. I like it--and got a song out of it: https://weeklybeats.com/#/onezero/music/djado-2

I've just recently resumed a Res-O-Glas build--I put that away for a while out of uncertainty about how I wanted to wire it, but I've made decisions and resumed construction. Happily, Gorilla epoxy doesn't smell like Death's sausage breath (the way the other epoxy I used on the center block did), and now gluing's out of the way. I have a varitone board from GFS, and Fender no-load's and a Bigsby on the way. Might just have this one done by the end of winter, or even sooner, I hope.