A picture is worth 1,000 words, so

Mike Perlowin RIP · Post by **Mike Perlowin RIP** » 23 Mar 2006 9:28 pm

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My web site

Michael Garnett · Post by **Michael Garnett** » 24 Mar 2006 1:38 am

I've only got one word.

Wow.

-MG

Stephen Gambrell · Post by **Stephen Gambrell** » 24 Mar 2006 2:41 am

Is that a Mexican Tele, or MIJ?

Per Berner · Post by **Per Berner** » 24 Mar 2006 3:18 am

Mike, you need to wash your hands more often

Chris Forbes · Post by **Chris Forbes** » 24 Mar 2006 3:21 am

That's cool!!

Doyle Weigold · Post by **Doyle Weigold** » 24 Mar 2006 3:27 am

hmmm 1962-63 I would guess. The humbucker throw's me tho. I would assume it was put in later. Just curios about the serial #. Doyle

Roger Rettig · Post by **Roger Rettig** » 24 Mar 2006 3:29 am

1970s, I'd say.

RR

Tony Prior · Post by **Tony Prior** » 24 Mar 2006 3:40 am

Mike, it's amazing you found a Guitar that already had your name on it !

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Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 24 Mar 2006 4:42 am

I agree; this picture could tell stories.

HowardR · Post by **HowardR** » 24 Mar 2006 5:04 am

photoshop - end of story[This message was edited by HowardR on 24 March 2006 at 05:05 AM.]

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 24 Mar 2006 5:13 am

Yeah, everyone needs a "beater", a hunka junk guitar that they don't mind trashing in rough-house basement venues.

But don't you own any good guitars?

Marlin Smoot · Post by **Marlin Smoot** » 24 Mar 2006 5:48 am

When you're playing the guitar...it looks like your name is LOWIN.

Mark Metdker · Post by **Mark Metdker** » 24 Mar 2006 6:23 am

WOW, that is MUCH cooler than one of the old pristine guitars that nobody ever played. Occassionally we will see an old guitar on Ebay that has been under some guys bed for 50 years and almost looks perfect.....sells for a million bucks....no thanks. Give me a guitar like this that has had the hell played out of it. It will play better and sound better. And they look WAY cooler!

Hey Mike I'll give you a couple of hundred bucks for that old piece of junk!

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 24 Mar 2006 7:54 am

Cat got your tongue?

Larry Strawn · Post by **Larry Strawn** » 24 Mar 2006 7:58 am

Does that thang still play???? LOL..
Nice Mike.

Jay Fagerlie · Post by **Jay Fagerlie** » 24 Mar 2006 8:13 am

Salty!

I like it.

Mike Perlowin RIP · Post by **Mike Perlowin RIP** » 24 Mar 2006 8:14 am

The guitar was made in 1968. I got it in ’75. It is one of the earliest CBS instruments, made at a time when they still had a lot of parts left over from the days when Leo Fender ran the company. It’s possible the neck and or body are pre CBS, but there’s no way of knowing for sure. All the original hardware was replaced.

It has the very rare maple fretboard on a maple neck, with no stripe down the back. These were only made for 2 or 3 years. I’ve only seen 2 others.

Note the home made B string bender, that was made by my father (Dad passes away 2 years ago at the age of 90) and the palm pedal on the G string.

The humbucker has a coil splitter, and the guitar has an out of phase switch. Red Rhodes wired it up.

This was my only guitar for about 15 years. It is still my favorite. I actually bought a different tele the day before I got this one, but when I saw this one I know it was the one for me, so I quickly sold the other one and grabbed it.

The guitar was stolen in 1980, but recovered a few months later. Somebody walked into a club where a friend of mine was playing, and asked him if he wanted to buy it, cheap. My friend immediately recognized it as mine, and bought it, and I in turn bought it back from him. That’s when I had my name inlayed in it.

Stephen Gambrell · Post by **Stephen Gambrell** » 24 Mar 2006 3:29 pm

How come Tele's always look better with a little wear on 'em?
Interesting story about that neck, Mike. I had a Tele, 70-something model, with the maple fingerboard, and no skunk stripe. Same decal, too, as well as I remember.
And, uh, CBS bought Fender in 1964.

Jerry Hayes · Post by **Jerry Hayes** » 3 Apr 2006 10:24 am

Cool guitar Mike, JH in Va.

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Howard Tate · Post by **Howard Tate** » 3 Apr 2006 12:56 pm

Wonder where they found a piece of wood with your name on. Did it grow that way? Does Ripley's know about this?

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James Cann · Post by **James Cann** » 4 Apr 2006 3:57 pm

This guitar looks so mean, I'll bet it never calls its mother!