NoMoonLaser Guitar Bodies & Echoluxe Custom Build Vintage Guitars (1953 Fender Telecaster)

NoMoonLaser guitar bodies are absolute gems in a polluted sea of plastic tone.  NML's are typically crafted from vintage reclaimed woods, using original Fender jigs to create an authentic look with tone like no other.  Where modern guitars might use cuts from trees 15-20 years old - many NML's utilize trees planted in the early 1900s (and beyond!).  You can hear it, I mean I can hear it, when I flip between vintage Fenders and NML's vs. new wood.  There's definitely a thing to it.  Find Shawn on Reverb, eBay, Etsy, etc...

In 2022 I commissioned NML to construct a Tele from a salvaged 1953 Fender Stringmaster (steel guitar), we're talking Leo Fender & old wood.

   
 

 

https://reverb.com/shop/nomoonlaser-guitar-bodies 

Bonus:  ways to sink the jack cup bracket:

   

Double bonus, a few more NML's:

Fender Rosewood Tele & NML

Telecaster Deluxe

      

5E3 5F1 Champ Build from 1953-54 Components (Crestwood Reel)

 

-Jensen Alnico PM 2351 220344 (34th week of '54) 

-Box 464 (46th of '54) 

-Sticker, hand written 5/2/55 pencil date on masking tape 

-Original pot was dated '53 

-Has ext out for 8ohm Speaker/cab 

-Cap job'd, updated plate load, node resistors, cathode bias 

-Test High Voltages: B+ 347vdc, 250v, 217v, 339v P, 250v S, 14.4v k 

-Clock Output on speaker: 5.6vac, 6.2vac @6ohms ~5.8w RMS, 6.4w Peak Power 

The aged wood and big box really resonate. Blindfolded this might sound better than my two tweed Champs. Wow.

 

 

CHAMPS

  

 

Fender Princeton Cabinet Redux

My friend Eddie Morin produced a reproduction 1950 TV Champ cabinet for my Fender amp last year.  It turned out extremely accurate, both in detail and craftsmanship.  And it looked so nice I just couldn't bring myself to cover it in tweed.  So I gave it some orange shellac and here it is.

I recently had another idea to have him help me complete a Fender Princeton project I've had around for some years.  I basically have a pair of Princetons but a single cabinet to house them.  Eddie was up to the task.

   

Eddie's wood shop

Attention to detail

Here's how it fit

I was going to cover this in black or blonde tolex.  Once again it was much too elegant to hide in wrap.  Great work Eddie, much appreciated. 

 

Orange shellac just looks so nice.

Isabella helped me do the oxblood grille cloth. 

Not the easiest thing, we did pretty good but not factory.

I created a repro tube chart, based on the other tube chart.  Look authentic?

Here's both of them, 1963 vs. 1969

Still has that blonde look of sorts.

1963

1969

1965 with some repro, in comparison.