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on today's show we're going to talk
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about this crazy
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cool Glazer Bender guitar Strat with a B
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vender on it we're going to talk about
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these old Seymour Duncan hot Strat stack
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pickups and strats with Benders oh
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my well hello friends
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so how many times do you see a strat
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with a B bender on it not often so today
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we're going to tell the tale and how
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many times do you see Glazer Bender
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guitars so uh this is a parts Caster
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It's a
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80s um you know Glazer neck that I found
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online and uh then I uh of course got a
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non- tremolo strp body and we painted it
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the same color as the other guitar and
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uh this one if you're not familiar with
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it and uh yeah and just kind of had a
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Heyday so that's what today's episode is
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about just going to tell the tale of it
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and talk about these cool old Seymour
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Duncan hot Strat stack pickups that are
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really cool and that Duncan you know
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still makes them to this day and uh yeah
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they're a cool a cool
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pickup all right first off I just want
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to say thank you to all my patreon
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the show in any way shape or form be it
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tip jar or buying a coffee mug or a
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there's information in the
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description also just want to say a
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hello to windmill windmill guitars in
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Cleveland Tennessee which is just kind
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of east of Chattanooga it's a great
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little shop there that I was at recently
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and uh was there my son had a wrestling
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tournament and went there and got to run
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into my my buddy Clint and uh yeah just
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got to have a good time there it's a
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great shop so if you're ever in uh in
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the Chattanooga area or going through
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there you ought to go to Cleveland
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Tennessee and hit windmill
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guitars all right let's dive
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in
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so you know I did the the last episode
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about you know about this this Glazer
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telly
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which was of course made from old parts
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that were unfinished you know they still
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had to be shaped and painted and all
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that stuff and so we put this together
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but in that episode I talked about how
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for years and years and years I had a
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search going on reverb and eBay and
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Google in general looking for Glazer
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guitars but they really didn't come up
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at all I never could find one so of
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course the way this works is that once
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that once I got that one all of a sudden
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on reverb there popped
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up this Glazer Strat and I started
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looking at it and before I even got to
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this description I saw the picture of
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the
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headstock and I knew something was up
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because it said Glazer bender on there
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and so anytime it says Glazer Bender
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that means it was on a guitar that had a
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bender on it and the body that was on it
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had a tremolo so I knew that it was a
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non it wasn't the original body so of
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course reading the
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description yes it was a you know it was
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just a Glazer neck on another
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body so otherwise if it's a real Glazer
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guitar and it doesn't have a bender then
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it would say custom instead of Bender
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there on the on the same font and
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everything it would just say custom
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there instead of
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Bender so I uh I I you know of course
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messaged the guy through Reverb and I
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said hey do you know what happened to
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the original body with the bender and he
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immediately uh comes back with hey Zach
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this is Jason
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Cornelius and which was just amazing
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because Jason is a cat that I met 20
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plus years ago out on the road when I
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was working for Brad Paisley uh Jason
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met us up at Billy Bobs and he ended up
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hanging out with us all day long he
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ended up help helping us with load in
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and load out and was there for sound
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check and everything and was just a
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great hang and a great guy and through
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the years I've kind of stayed in touch
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with him and uh and uh just a really
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nice guy so when I found out that that
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he had the neck of course I asked him if
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he would sell just the neck cuz I didn't
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really want the body cuz I wanted it to
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be a be vendor like it was supposed to
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be a vendor you know guitar and so he
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agreed to that and he was he G you know
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gave me a buddy deal on it he sold it to
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me for what he had in it and which was
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very kind so thank you
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Jason and I immediately told my guitar
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buddy
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Brad
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and I mean he immediately got on his
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phone and he found a upper thre
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lb swamp Ash non- tremolo Strat buddy on
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reverb and ordered it just like
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that and he said okay I've got a body
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order
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and I said what he said yeah he said now
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you just need pickups so I said well
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what kind of pickups should we put on it
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I said you know cuz you know on my other
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Strat I have like a combination of Ron
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Ellis and I have like a Duncan twang
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Banger in the back and he said no no and
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I said well what about like emgs and he
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said no he said you need to do a set of
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seamour Duncan hot Strat stacks and I
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said three of them and he said yeah you
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need to have three of them three blade
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you know pickups on there and I said why
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and he said two words Steve
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Warner and then I remembered the fact
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that of course the most famous Glazer
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Strat
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user is Steve Warner and his Strat which
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has a you know it has an ebony fretboard
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with kind of a tree of life in lay and
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if you want to find out about it I've
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interviewed him a couple of times
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Through The Years there's one of them
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that's with Joe Glazer and Steve Warner
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and we talk in depth about the guitar so
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if you want to learn more go there but
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uh you know it has a tree life inlay on
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an ebony frit board it has a matching
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red head stock and red body and it has
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these blade
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pickups but uh currently now at one
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point it was three blades but at other
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times it had um I don't think it had
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other pickups it just had other covers
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on it so now in its current Incarnation
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it has two blades and then one of them
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is a smooth white cover
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and it's just one of these so this is
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the old style covers that Duncan used to
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put with these pickups so let's tell
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we'll do a little short Sid track on
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Duncan hot Strat Stacks
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so in the early
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80s uh Duncan started making these
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stacked single coil pickups that that
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were humbucking you know so was one coil
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on top of the other they made the
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Vintage stack which had you know your
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regular kind of six pole pieces but
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still had this kind of cover but most
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the time it was a maroon cover and
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that's where all y'all are going to go
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oh yeah so they had a maroon cover on
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them with this little with the Seymour
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Duncan
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s and then they made the hot version
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which was a blade but it also had the
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same smooth cover on
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it uh after after a year or two they
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decided to change the covers and so the
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Vintage stack got a regular pickup cover
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that of course had the six holes in it
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for the six pole
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pieces and these the hot strap stack
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pickups went from the smooth cover to
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this you know opening that would show
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the blade which you know was showing off
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you know what was kind of cool about the
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pickup so um yeah and then uh these
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became very well known and of course
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you've seen a lot of the maroon covered
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early ones in a lot of guitars so that's
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what's in the middle position on uh
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Brent Mason's Telecaster that's what's
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in the neck position on Trevor Raven's
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um old Strat that he used with used with
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yes and also that's what's in the the
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neck and middle position on Dan Huff's
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63 Strat that he still plays to this
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day so yeah so Brad said you know ought
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to get a set of those and so of course I
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immediately went on reverb which I'm
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sounding like an ad for Reverb but it's
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like like most of you guys I'm on reverb
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a lot looking for stuff to uh you know
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to to think about buying or
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buy and lo and behold I found a
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pre-wired set of these pickups from
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the80s on a single ply white Pit guard
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which is exactly what I wanted you know
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cuz I already knew that I wanted it to
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be kind of a 50s kind of look uh except
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for having of course blade pickups but I
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wanted a single ply guard with white you
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know plastic and there it was you know
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with the blade pickups it was pre-wired
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it had two push push pots on it so that
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you could tap the pickups separately so
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this you know this first tone
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control uh it Taps these two pickups so
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down is humbucking up is single coil and
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this bottom tone control that is of
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course I have it wired to the bridge uh
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down is humbucking up is single
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coil and so I got it and uh golly it
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seemed like just about everything you
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know showed up and in fact the body
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showed up first and the first thing we
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did was I said what Brad what color are
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we going to paint this and I said are we
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going to go red or we going to do like
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you know know some other color and he
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said no you have to do the same color as
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your Telly he said I have I'm going to
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match that color and we're going to do
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it and I said okay he said you're going
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to have you know the matching set of
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glazer Strat and Telly so so he painted
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the body and he did uh you know he was
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out of this paint you know of course
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which he had mixed this up to begin with
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and so we I brought this over so he
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could look at it he he mixed up um
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another little uh container of it and uh
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sprayed it and uh yeah it's a great
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looking kind of Tous turquoise is kind
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of color that he mixed other colors with
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also to kind of give it a cool look and
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so yeah so the body was done so then I
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you know went about putting like the
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strap buttons on the pit guard showed up
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I wired it in the neck finally showed up
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and so I wired it all together
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and lo and behold when I tapped these
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pickups um they were out of phase so in
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humbucking mode they were in Phase but
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when you would tap them this middle
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pickup was out of phase with the other
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two and that's not you know a lot of
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people will call this sound you know
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like when anytime when you have two
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Strat pickups together they call it the
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out of phase sound it's not out of
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phase um out of phase is when it has no
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base and it sounds really kind of cocked
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W sounding um or maybe that's not even a
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fair description but it just it has no
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base so um so I took it to Joe and Joe
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uh looked at the wiring looked at the
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pickups and he said well the reason that
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they're out of phase is this middle
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pickup is slightly older than the other
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two they're all from the 80s but this
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middle pickup is the oldest of them and
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it's from when they were using a
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different shaped magnet and they were
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doing and they were wrapping it in the
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opposite direction so what you have is a
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reverse wrap middle pickup that was
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wired up wrong so he fixed it and he
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said now he said even in single coil
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mode you'll have home cancelling um when
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you have two pickups together which is
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really cool so now here for if you're
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really wanting to go down the rabbit
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hole of course the earliest pickups have
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the those maroon or white covers like
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this uh then the first iteration of it
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with this type of cover the blade magnet
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is flush with the top of the cover and
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it's kind of grainy looking and it just
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kind it has like some lines and some
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imperfections then a year or so later
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they changed it and they do they did it
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they W they wrapped it in the opposite
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direction and the magnet now is smoother
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nicer looking and it's kind of kind of
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bulbous a little bit above the cover so
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that's a way you can tell if it's a uh
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first generation I guess hot Strat stack
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or or whatever but uh they sound great
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and so the way I have it wired of course
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is you know I have a five-way switch you
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know you have your good old tone control
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I have this this is a tone control but
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just for the middle pickup you know how
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I am I like no tone control on the neck
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pickup even if it's a strat and then of
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course you have a tone control for the
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bridge only and then this uh Taps that
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so uh yeah let's let's hear this thing
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so of course we got to do some vender
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stuff let's see got a little volume yeah
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yeah and then uh of course that's single
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call mode uh humbucking
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there's just a touch more output when
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it's in single coil mode and it's just a
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little darker in humbucking mode and a
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little brighter in single coil mode
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which kind of makes sense because it has
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to do with whether you're activating
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that lower coil or not or whether it's
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just top coil only I really like these
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these you know the front two pickups I
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prefer them in single coil mode because
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they're the most open sounding so here's
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of course these two pickups
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let's
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see um middle pickup on its own let's
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see
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kind of fun to add a little uh Bender
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action to the ASAC theme of course you
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have the uh the back two uh pickups and
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uh I've got it where of course this
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pickup is a single coil and this one is
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is humbucking at at the
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moment um you know yeah
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good old clucky Plucky uh um you know
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back two pickup sound then of course the
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bridge
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probably right now what you're saying is
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how does Zach make everything sound like
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a
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Telecaster I I don't know but um yeah
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I'm a Telly guy and then of course you
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know but really A non- tremolo Strat you
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know kind of has a little more of a
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Telly thing anyway but yeah and uh yeah
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this this back uh hot Strat stack pickup
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is a really good uh you know beefy
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sounding uh you know pickup and uh
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single coil mode is a little uh you know
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a little more
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open you can see it's just kind of
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taking it down like half a DB or
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something like that and it's just you
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know when it goes into humbucking mode
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was just a little bit dark marker which
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I actually kind of like so yeah so this
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is a really really fun guitar so yeah so
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I put the guitar
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together and uh you know got Joe Glazer
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to fix the wiring and uh then you know I
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was like well I guess we need to put a b
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bender on it so of course you know the
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Glazer uh string Bender system is about
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the only one that you can put on a strat
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and so you know of course they did the
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whole you know they ran the uh long
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drill through here up underneath here
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they put in this other neck plate with
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the arm on there you know they do a
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little bit of drilling underneath the
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um uh the bridge and of course you you
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know we still have these bent steel
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saddle but then you have this kind of
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combination saddle here and then of
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course you can flip this over and uh you
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know I could have a g bender on this
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guitar you know in 15 minutes if uh
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that's what I wanted but of course I'm a
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B Bender guy through and through so yeah
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so this is a really really great guitar
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and uh you know of course I'm always
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playing through my headstrong l king amp
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um and the only effect I'm using it all
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is a touch of Reverb on the amp and I
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have a little slapback delay going with
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the uh L capistan but uh you know
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extremely happy with the way this guitar
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turned out and of course I feel
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ridiculous but uh you know here I have
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this matching pair of glazer
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stepchildren which you know this you of
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course this neck was you know actually
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done by Joe um I asked Joe if he could
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remember where the net came from and he
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said he couldn't uh of course here you
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can see some of the beautiful tiger
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stripe on it uh you and on the
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fretboard yeah
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he said that it might have been on a you
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know a bender equipped Strat that he
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built for Don Kelly but he wasn't sure
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um yeah he he thought that it could have
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been that one and that that that Don
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wasn't happy with it and he got rid of
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it and then it got you know parted up so
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but anyway so it's a Glazer neck with a
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uh a lightweight swamp as body uh
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finished by Brad with some old Seymour
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Duncan h Strat stack pickups and a
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bender and a really great fun tool and
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if you have an a hardtail strat that
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you've ever thought about uh having a
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bender on if you're not a Telly guy well
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do
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it all right guys well I hope you've
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enjoyed this episode and I'll see you
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next time bye-bye