After "breaking in" this guitar for a friend of mine, I ask him to sell it to me several times to which he replied "It’s yours to use..I don’t want to sell it…I’m gonna paint it blue to match my main Strat! I told him I was gonna buy a blue one and paint it yellow! (this color is no longer a stock Fender color). While playing it at a backyard party/jam, my friend simply walked up to me and tied a blue ribbon around the headstock and stated "It’s yours to keep. After the way you played it tonight , it would probably run away from home if I took it back." This guitar is completely stock and I love it just the way it came from the factory. I used this guitar most recently on “Mosh Potato" from the compilation Guitarapalooza Vol 2.

I bought this guitar at Billy’s Band Aid in Lubbock Texas in 1983. I’m not sure of the exact year or model, but it’s a very early Charvel from Wayne’s first shop. It was used when I got it and came with one pickup, a stock "whammy" and one volume control. Around 1986 I needed more sounds, so I got my router out of the closet and cut a hole for a second pickup and a Floyd Rose whammy. I loaded it up with Seymour Duncan’s (a hot rails in the rhythym and a JB in the lead position). I installed a couple of switches to throw one coil to ground for single coil sounds and more variety of tone. Around 1988 I replaced the 21 fret neck with a 24 fret model, courtesy of guitar tech to the stars ……Sammy Sanchez. I used this guitar most recently on "Frankenfingers" for the Jason Becker benefit CD "Warmth in the Wilderness vol 2.

This guitar got me thru the a divorce, 3 bands, and two CD’s. In my quest for bluesy tones, I installed a couple of switches to throw one coil of the stock pickups to ground for single coil sounds and more variety of tone. The red switch is for the lead pickup and the white switch is for the rythym pickup. I switch pickups constantly, so the 5 position selector switch has been replaced more than once. You can hear this guitar on “My girl Suzi” from the Lone Star Guitar cd.

My first "good" guitar. I bought this one around 1974 (I had to finance it!).After all these years, it’s still completely stock, though I removed the pickup covers and Eric Johnson’s guitar tech did some grounding work to quiet down the single coil "soapbar" pickups. This guitar has survived countless bands, gigs, girlfriends, and two apartment fires. Nowdays, I use it mostly for slide solos, or maybe a de-tuned crunchy rhythym track.

Due to my fascination with country guitar shredding and a desire to augment my skills with some twang, I aquired this tele and immediately began to modify it, first with a hipshot B bender and dropped D lever. Next, I installed a Brent Mason model nashville studio (bridge) pickup and a little 59 (neck), both made by Seymour Duncan.