{"id":8118,"date":"2015-10-01T07:41:59","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T12:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/?p=8118"},"modified":"2015-10-01T08:52:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T13:52:24","slug":"new-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/01\/new-guitar\/","title":{"rendered":"New Guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My friend Mattias recently moved to Hawaii and had to travel light. He left me this kit telecaster that he built himself. It was a nice looking guitar, but had some sound and playability issues. I decided to put some work into improving it.<\/p>\n

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Mattias finished it in a beautiful stained flame pattern. I added new classic Fender telecaster tuners, a new jack, and new DiMarzio Area T pickups.<\/p>\n

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The boring white pick guard was upgraded to a 3 ply black sparkle.<\/p>\n

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The nut was recut, and it had a total fret levelling and refinishing. Check out how low that action is! No buzz anywhere on the neck!<\/p>\n

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Special thanks to Mike and Jerry at Players Guitars in Worth, IL for their amazing work. I have a lot of guitars, and this is easily the best playing one I own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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