Here's The Story...

I bought this guitar in Singapore.....

 I think it was 1989, when I first saw this guitar hanging in a guitar repair shop called "Guitar Workshop". It was in a basement shop directly across the street from "The Hard Rock Cafe" in Singapore...

The frets were so worn that it was un-playable. To this day I can't figure out how someone could play it so much to wear out the frets into such big divots like it was...   I figured, if someone played this guitar so much to wear out the frets like this, it must be a great guitar...and worth playing.

And it was, and is....

This custom Tele reminds me of the one Steve Morse (Dixie Dregs) played.

I paid the shop to re-fret it and to use jumbo frets, which as you can see they did.

It plays great and there's nothing I find wrong with it at all; playability wise or otherwise.

The wood attracted me and was as beautiful as it is today. It still has the same great luster even now. The wood has always reminded me of my basket ball gym's floor. The pickups are the same today as when I bought it and I haven't changed a thing on it on the electronics side. I also haven't changed the tuning keys but think the two top "B" and "E" string tuners are a bit different from the others, although they do look the same. The small reverse polarity switch near the Tone & Volume controls was already there as well. 

I played this guitar in Hong Kong Bars & Pubs, Hotels, Recordings, and in Main Land China etc. for many, many years.

In August of 1992, a friend of mine (Danny Levine) was going to interview Def Leppard !

I found out about it and asked if he would take this guitar and have them sign it...

I asked him to have them to sign the front of the guitar.

He took it to the interview and when he asked them to sign the front, they laughed and said

 it was too beautiful to screw up the front with their signatures....

 (a couple of humble guys, who are also a couple of the most original and brilliant musicians in Rock History). 

So Joe Elliott and Rick Savage signed the back !

Joe said: "Your Mad !" and Rick gave me the: "Cheers!"

This guitar came back to the USA in April of 1999.

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