T-51Fred

Elvis Rools!!!!

Hey guys--I've been here a few years and seen a bit about Wyldbil. Can you share some history about Bill for those of us who didn't know him? I've seen a post about this guitar making a tour last year, I think. I love the idea and would be honored to carry the spirit of your beloved friend to a jam here in upstate NY. Perhaps at a jam at Arlo Guthries church not to far from here, or a local open mike. Happy to carry the torch for your beloved departed and pass it on.

There will be players there from Jersey NYC Arizona, potential curriers.

I have a blues jam party every other summer in upstate NY on Mass border, 50-200 people depending on how many folks I tell. Nice woodsy setting on a hill top. Pot luck, hippie types. If a guitar currier is passing through on Sat July 12 there will be plenty of players to take it for whirl. Overnight camping is advised after the bourbon gets around.

TBP, I have the same guilt about the Jarrett I have. I worry that if the next young, impoverished Joe Pass comes over to jam one day with his mangled Dean twangbasher I'll be forced to do the right thing. Tell him if he works really, really hard that one day he too would have enough credit to buy something he can't afford.

I couldn't even pick up a Benedetto. It would haunt me the rest of my life.

Boy, I've been around the block on this one. Modded many cheap guitars with high end parts and believed I had transformed the scrap wood into a tone monster. When I bought my first master built guitar, the T-51F, I knew I had wasted a small fortune and gotten no where. When I got my first over the top high end guitar, a Jarrett Zaffiro, I was blown out of the water. I bought it to flip, but when I came upstairs after trying it out even my wife said, "there's no way your selling that!" There are no exceptions or freak bits of wood that can bring a cheap guitar up to that level of craftsmanship or playability. That being said, I'm putting lollar imperials in a First Act Me701. What the heck--it's a cool guitar.

The sound of my 1958 Ferguson tractor. Over 2 feet here. A steep 1600 foot driveway with two switchbacks. Barely enough room left between the snow walls for the car. Four more inches today. If we get any more my house will be cut off from civilization.

I'd love to hear more of Santana on teles doing what he does best.