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Grants Tele...ready for road trip..
soon as he confirms the case to ship and address. I'll watch neck relief while I wait. Thought ya'll may like to see it. Comments about how it plays and sounds...I'll leave that to Grant. In case you noticed, no switch- vol, tone, blender. Now I can breath again lol. Thanks to all that followed this project and giving me support. It really is very much appreciated. Mike       
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Re:Grants Tele...ready for road trip..
2011/05/17 18:28:21
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Is drooling permitted?
Nice
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Re:Grants Tele...ready for road trip..
2011/05/17 18:41:33
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Stunning 
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Re:Grants Tele...ready for road trip..
2011/05/17 18:57:58
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Beautiful again.
Why six strings tho?
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Re:Grants Tele...ready for road trip..
2011/05/17 19:06:50
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My word!
That is one tasty looking geetar.
Michael that is truly beautiful.
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Re:Grants Tele...ready for road trip..
2011/05/17 19:28:18
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Oh baby come to papa. She's gorgeous Michael! Congrats and a million thanks.
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Re:Grants Tele...ready for road trip..
2011/05/17 19:41:21
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Geeze Spacey, ol pal...just beautiful.
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Re:Grants Tele...ready for road trip..
2011/05/17 19:54:35
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WOW! She's SWEET looking . . .
KUDOS
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Re:Grants Tele...ready for road trip..
2011/05/17 20:06:36
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Ooh, that came out looking like one fabulously serious zebrafied weapon!  That beautiful top will hypnotize all who gaze at it!
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Re:Grants Tele...ready for road trip..
2011/05/17 20:11:20
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Sure got me hypnotized, I've been staring at the pics since I got home from work
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Re:Grants Tele...ready for road trip..
2011/05/17 20:26:40
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Thank you guys. It's kind of hard to tell by the photo but the blender knob is gold with a black top. Best I can tell the photos look very close to the real thing. That zebra wood is some great stuff. It changes with viewing angles and does have those light kinda silver stripes that move around. Tuff stuff to work but sure worth it. Hard to tell you what handling tonewood is like. Really cool though...ya sand, drill and tap on it and you can hear it. It does talk to you. That piece of ebony on the back was just to tie-in with the ebony control plate...balance I guess. Sure glad you guys like it. And drool is cool....I wiped some up a few times! Why six Bapu? LOL really closer to 11...I busted a few making the nut...normal for me...didn't happen with the bass though...lol
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Re:Grants Tele...ready for road trip..
2011/05/17 20:30:13
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That is a one of a kind guitar for sure...
very nice.
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Re:Grants Tele...ready for road trip..
2011/05/17 20:37:58
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Thought I'd try some detail shots...I do apologize for my lack of photography skills. Thank you Herb...posted while I was doing this. Thank you Wookiee, Steve, Bapu, Jon, Grant, MyolPal, Kev, Drew, and Grant.    
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Re:Grants Tele...ready for road trip..
2011/05/17 20:44:42
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Oh very sexy, thanks for the addendum brother.
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Re:Grants Tele...ready for road trip..
2011/05/17 20:49:00
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Man, that is a stunning piece of art! Michael, we may need to talk about a lefty.
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Re:Grants Tele...ready for road trip..
2011/05/17 20:50:07
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LOL...I noticed the real small white dots...it's powder from the jeweler polishing rag.
That's what I use on the hardware....not the frets. Guess I need a little vacuum cleaner-
like for computers maybe? lol.
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Re:Grants Tele...ready for road trip..
2011/05/17 20:52:26
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Man, that is a stunning piece of art! Michael, we may need to talk about a lefty.
Randy
Now that would be trip.....and about 7 months down the road.... I'm starting Steve guitar now and then another after that...I don't know what it's going to be other than very special to me. But we're still young Randy! And thank you for the kudo.
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Re:Grants Tele...ready for road trip..
2011/05/17 20:54:22
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I can confirm Grant's address for you. In fact it's the same as mine (so just put my name on the package and I'll be sure to give it to him)... 
Time for all of you to head over to Beyond My DAW!
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Re:Grants Tele...ready for road trip..
2011/05/17 20:57:34
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Re:Grants Tele...ready for road trip..
2011/05/17 20:57:54
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Grant, ol pal...you might want to rent a motel room for the rest of the night;-)
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Re:Grants Tele...ready for road trip..
2011/05/17 21:11:16
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yorolpal
Grant, ol pal...you might want to rent a motel room for the rest of the night;-)
Thanks my old pal I think you are correct. 
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Re:Grants Tele...ready for road trip..
2011/05/17 22:13:08
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Stunning.
I like stripes!
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Re:Grants Tele...ready for road trip..
2011/05/17 22:49:34
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Here's the blender knob in a bit more detail... 
Time for all of you to head over to Beyond My DAW!
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Re:Grants Tele...ready for road trip..
2011/05/17 23:57:39
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Should auld acquaintance be forgot--hey, who the hell are you guys? X2(X3 pending hardware upgrade), Emulator X2, E-mu 1212M, Virtual String Machine
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spacey
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Re:Grants Tele...ready for road trip..
2011/05/19 13:19:40
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Thank you Craig, Mike and Mike, Mark and Old55. I like that blender knob! Thought maybe some of you would enjoy this. Be sure to check out "Scrolling with Bones".
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Re:Grants Tele...ready for road trip..
2011/05/19 13:23:17
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Just gorgeous, Michael. You're doing amazing work.
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Re:Grants Tele...ready for road trip..
2011/05/20 09:29:57
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I've said it before, i'll say it again.
That might be the most beautiful Tele I've ever seen, even if it's not Fender...
Any chance you could PM me the approximate cost for something like that? I had to promise my wife I wouldn't make any big purchases in 2011, but i'm already getting ready for the next year. lol
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Re:Grants Tele...ready for road trip..
2011/05/20 09:55:16
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SHE'S GORGEOUS !!!
i LOVE HER!
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spacey
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Re:Grants Tele...ready for road trip..
2011/05/20 11:53:37
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Thank you Phil, Slug and Bill.
Slug I can PM you but there is no reason as I can tell you the same thing
here and I must so nobody is wondering....I don't build guitars for profit.
I've stated it before that it wouldn't be right to do that on this forum.
I can tell you that using the finest woods and hardware that I'm familiar with
will easily put the cost over a thousand just for that.
I committed myself to two more builds which will take at least 6 months and
I can't see anything past that right now.
I'm sure honored by the compliments and request to build...didn't really expect
that when I started building...thank you Slug and everybody very much for that.
Mike
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