If you Google Leo Fender's early Factory there's an old black & white picture of Gloria Fuentes & other employees sitting for a 25th anniversary pic✌😎☮
Justin, do you REALLY believe that all these overpriced old guitars are better than my new stuff? I don’t buy the hype….it’s all cork sniffing for rich people.
Guitars gain their soul from all the notes played on that guitar and all the places that guitar was played in it's lifetime. It's okay to birth a new guitar but sometimes it's okay to adopt...lol Plus with Fender, the 7 1/4 fretboard radios of the vintage guitars make it more special than the newer style Fender's sold today
I'm fortunate to have purchased a '53 Tele when I was 19 years old at a time (1971) when there was no such thing as vintage guitars, just old ones. I paid about what a new one sold for, and even then my friends thought I was nuts. Just recently, after getting the Pinecaster book I decided to open it up and take photos of the dates, I hadn't looked in years. Mine is clear and undisturbed, Gloria 6/1/53. The neck and body are within a week. They must have been cranking them out back then. Enjoy your guitar.
So cool! This is exactly why I didn’t name it Gloria. Haha. She probably signed hundreds if not thousands of guitars over her tenure. Enjoy that guitar in good health! 🍻
The Biscuit is a sweet, sweet Tele. Your playing definitely does it justice. If Tom let a Tele that sweet go, can you imagine how nice any Tele's he's kept are? I really enjoyed this little show-and-tell.
He has let better guitars than this go before. Dozens of them. He'll sell off what would be a desert island guitar for anyone else. He just doesn't get attached. I admit I don't get it!
Super cool signature inside that tele. I’ve been buying some cool used guitars from all over the US & I put the small shipping sticker inside the control cavities. That way the next owner can see where it started before me & hopefully they’ll do the same….let’s start this trend y’all! It’s a great idea to show the guitars’ life & travels.🤘🏼
Wow! I can’t believe how great that sounds not plugged in. And, even better plugged in! That is a masterpiece. You are very lucky 🍀 and you have a new subscriber. 👍☮️🌞🎸👏💖
Great to see you enjoy that guitar that much. Loved your whole 3 takes on that solo outro dude. It's an awesome feeling when a guitar inspires you to play and go one direction or another. Congrats Justin!
Bro! I didn't even know you had a channel! I can't wait to do a dive into what you do on here. Thanks so much for all the hard work you have put into any session you've ever done with me: I very much appreciate it. You are such a talented and great guy!
That tele is so sweet looking and sounding. Wise purchase, Tom is a wizard and he has such a good taste and knowledge of vintage guitars (I am sure you do as well). You are so stoked! Nice!
A friend bought a pair of old P basses that belonged to The Guess Who ( i live in winnipeg where they're from) and it had an old bag of coke under the pickguard, that's how they'd travel with it back in the day. Played it in the studio, it was an amazing feeling bass with a ton of vibe.
That is SOOPER cool Maestro. (I’m with you regarding your instrument approach. Both in the acquisitions and liquidation approach and the “what’s best for the song?” aesthetic. As always, THANK you for your time.
,,,land o' lakes,wi............,,,,,,,,played all my life,,,finally traded for my very first tele(squier,infinity),,,love it,,,,dream of finding an old one,,,looking all the time,,,this vid gave me hope,,,...can't wait,,....great sound unplugged!!..55' holy cats !.................strive...........,,,,,,,,,tnx,pat&family.
Duuuuuuuuuuude! Met you on the David Nail tour. You had a Buk SG I didn't have cash for! Still remember those shows and you coming out to say hello in Philly. Hope the family is well.
This is amazing. I noticed how clean and smooth it looked. Then you said refinish. It’s beautiful and they preserved the tape. Beautiful guitar. My uncle had 53 Esquire when he sold it they found a front pickup sitting in the cavity under pickguard. Never soldered. Must of been in a hurry
I go with the "it's a combination" theory. All wood parts do sound different, even pickups are not exactly the same. One day they make a guitar that hits the jackpot, when literally EVERYTHING comes together. The resonation of all components put together can amaze us. Even when most 50's Tele's are pretty okay, you can buy ones that are amazing. It happens! And that is the reason one should buy a new guitar in a shop: I want THAT guitar, even if it is your pre scratched demo, just because this one sounds great. Buying online, you will receive the not so perfect ones, as well. And you get stuck with second best. Just saying.
Man, that Tele rocks for sure.. Amazing how close to perfect Leo and company were in the beginning and not much if anything needs to change…”Simple Sells”….
You 100% nailed it with the slow growth woods (ask old school framer how things have changed (hint now you need a king, queen, jack, rook, bishop, and pointdexter stud now) the grains to loose. That's why strativarias fiddles sound so good. Old ass ice age wood! Imo that tele sounds amazing
So cool. My first guitar was a used Squier Strat with a homemade linoleum pickguard the previous owner attached to the face of the guitar with wood screws. It looked like he used a drill. No pilot holes. Just muscled em on in there. Hahaha
@@JustinOstrander Perhaps in a future video you can talk about your earlier instruments. Sounds like you have had quite a few. I love your style and letting us see under the hood of session work. Blessings, bro!
T Shirt : "One more time, Just because it's fun ! " 😁... Also, what a badass, beautiful sounding piece of American History. Your playing ROCKS !! Keep up the cool content. Subscribed! 🍻
New subscriber Justin! Great video, agree on the gap in YT vids and happy to have found you through this awesome tele. Thanks in advance for all the effort that goes into making these videos and sharing your knowledge and experience with the community
Nice playing, nice Tele! Maybe you should consider re-naming her "Gloria". I own an 85 Tele made in Japan and it sure has an unplugged tone that stands up to other new ones with same string size and brand. It's the age of the wood, so I can't imagine what a 68-year-old sounds like against my 38-year-old.
That Tele is my favorite of all of yours, but honestly I have not heard a bad sound from any of them in your hands. Been a subscriber for a while - it's great to see the channel grow. Nice work, you deserve all of your success. Keep it up!!!
Wow. I am so glad that you bought that guitar. When you played to the song it sounded so amazing. Really amazing. I am so happy that a real player has that guitar and knows what to do with it. It sounds so REAL. It sounds like the real deal, because it is. But it is nothing without a good pair of hands, and you have them. Fantastic. Never sell that guitar, and record the hell out of it.
i had seen that leslie style speaker cabinet he was putting in the yard sale. made me want to make a trip to TN. but now i REALLY regret not making the trip!
What's great about this story is that You are a player that will make that guitar sing ; not some collector that will hoard it away in some closet . Biscuit with butter & honey !
I was born in 1955, and envy you for being the caretaker and player of that fine guitar. The closest I'll get is the 2016 epiphone les paul custom 1955 reissue I recently purchased, plan on putting a "staple" pickup in the neck position like the originals had. But a 1955 tele has always been my dream, good for you owning that fine telecaster...........!
Nice G bender. At first, I was like how is he operating his bender without the strap on it? Nice guitar and Larry really has some serious guitars. Glad you got that one.
It’s mostly the electronics and metal and copper in the pickups that it’s not the same anymore few to the new lows. I loved the sound of this one the most on UL channel. Great purchase!!
Some of the things you mention, like the bridge pickup's note bloom and the beautiful-sounding unplugged strum, are present in my new Original 50s Tele, though it has the fat 52 neck and won't be really resonant for another decade or two. But plugged in, yours has so much power and sustain - one of those guitars that sounds like it's playing itself, like Mick Taylor's ES-345 on "Can't You Hear Me Knocking." Great purchase.
i found the same tape in my 62 strat unfortunately everything on the tape was pretty much unreadable the only reason i found out what it was is because a luthier friend of mine who was doing a cleanup / setup told me about it and what he thought it was amazing still there to this day ,, and u are 100% correct nothing sounds like old wood i don't give a rats what anyone says
DAMN That's what I'm looking for!!!!!!!!! I watch uncle Lar too and I think I saw him play it a couple times! Big Buchanan fan too and been trying to find the right one. I can't get around to well so hard to find stuff! Cool vid brother!! Wish I could find one!!
Man what an amazing guitar!! Sounds awesome!!! It’s definitely in the right hands 👍🏽 gonna pickup my tele and play a little bit now 😊 it would be so cool to find out who Gloria the final assembler was…
I am privileged to own 5 tele’s but my 67 with Brazilian rosewood fingerboard is the best tele I’ve heard and owned ever so happy days Justin keep on rockin
very nice , great playing , Tom and you are amazing players, I've played bass professionally for a long time always played acoustic guitar, now I'm playing lead guitar in a band , thanks for the inspiration ✌️🎸🎸
Very cool guitar and story !!!!!!! Makes you wonder about “the life of Gloria”…. People are important, that’s something we all should consider….. I hope the folks that made my guitars are leading Happy and Stress-free lives. 💛🎸😊😺 Edit: 1955 is when I was made, too.
I shall be subscribed! Great stuff, looking forward to more vids... Loved what you said bout playing tastefully! Definitely appreciate that as a bassist who also plays guitar.
Wow congrats! There’s an episode of Tom playing a Tele in his living room, which I think is some of his very best playing. I think it might be this guitar. Hard to tell since he moves through them like a hot butter knife on a biscuit. You sound great and glad you found a keeper. I’d probably have to name her Gloria but I know Tom doesn’t do that, ha.
