Used – Bill Crook Paisley Telecaster (2014)

So how did I get started building paisley guitars? When Brad Paisley signed his first record deal and started touring, he asked me to build a backup guitar that played and sounded like his beloved vintage ’68 paisley, but in blue. I agreed to do it, not knowing the hurdles and failed experiments that lay ahead of me.

I watched the ink run off the paper, the solvent melt the paper, and the finish crack for no reason, but finally I came up with a technique that worked. The blue paisley debuted in Brad’s 2002 “I’m Gonna Miss Her” video, and I thought that was the end of my experimentation with paisley finishes. I didn’t see it coming!

Here are some of the features:

• 2 piece maple neck  – with Crook headstock
• 7 1/4 to 9 ½ compound radius
• 6105 fretwire
• .830 C shape
• 1.650 nut width
• Vintage style tuners
• Light weight swamp ash body – vintage pink paisley
• Clear back sprayed pickguard
• Callaham vintage style bridge
• Callaham enhanced Compensated saddles S.S. on low E&A brass on others
• APC neck pickup
• Florance TE-59 bridge pickup
• 4-Way Switching
• Hard Case
• 6 lbs 13 oz

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